Tracking and predicting U.S. influenza activity with a real-time surveillance network is a dataset published in PLoS Computational Biology (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.2, placing it in the top 17.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 23 times, with 21 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 18% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
DataRank reads this dataset's downstream impact straight off the citation graph — no black box, no proprietary weighting. How is this computed?
FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Full FAIR picture · advisory
The headline score is computed from the scored criteria — the fact-shaped checks (a repository, an accession, a licence) that two independent models agree on. The advisory criteria below are real FAIR guidance but rest on judgment calls that models read differently, so they inform without moving the number.
No persistent-identifier scheme string (DOI, Handle, ARK, repository accession, etc.) is given for the dataset.
RDA-F1-01D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a persistent identifier' (priorit · RDA-F1-02D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a globally unique identifier' · FsF-F1-02D — F-UJI/FAIRsFAIR: 'Data is assigned a persistent identifier'
“Data Availability The Virena data are owned by Quidel. These data are available to other researchers and can be obtained by contacting Dr. John Tamerius ( [email protected] )."”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
No repository is named; the holder is a company (Quidel) and access is via a person. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F4-01M — FAIR Data Maturity Model: metadata is offered so it can be harvested and indexed ( · NIH DMS Policy Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — name the repository where data will be archived · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Long-Term Sustainability', 'Reten
No identifier or link for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, neither in the reference list nor in the body text.
FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014) — data should be cited as a first- · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes · FsF-F3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes the identifier of the data it describes'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Data Availability The Virena data are owned by Quidel. These data are available to other researchers and can be obtained by contacting Dr. John Tamerius ( [email protected] )."”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points at a person to contact, which is Colavizza category 1 (data available on request). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
Colavizza, Hrynaszkiewicz, Staden, Whitaker & McGillivray (2020), 'The citation advantage of li · Springer Nature research data policy — Data Availability Statements: standard statement templat · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes
“ITS recorded over 805,000 test results between September 1st, 2015 and May 12, 2017.”
The dataset's content and size are described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F2-01M — 'Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery' (priority Essential) · FsF-F2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes descriptive core elements to support data findability' · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data'
“These data are available to other researchers and can be obtained by contacting Dr. John Tamerius ( [email protected] ).”
The only route given is a discretionary request to a person, which is not a followable process; scored as 'no' per the rubric.
RDA-A1.1-01D — 'Data is accessible through a free access protocol' · FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Free and Easy Access'
Advisory · not in the published score
“These data are available to other researchers and can be obtained by contacting Dr. John Tamerius ( [email protected] )."”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper describes the action of contacting a person to obtain the data, but does not apply a standard access-level label. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · RDA-A1-01M — metadata contains information to enable the user to get access to the data · COAR Controlled Vocabularies — Access Rights v1.0 (open / embargoed / restricted / metadata-onl
“These data are available to other researchers and can be obtained by contacting Dr. John Tamerius ( [email protected] )."”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The gatekeeper is a natural person (Dr. John Tamerius), not an institutional committee or repository. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-14-124) — controlled-access via a Data Access Committee · RDA-A1.2-01D — 'Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authentication and · NIH DMS Policy Element 5 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Access, Distribution, or Reuse Considerations (conse
No sentence in the paper states when the data are available or how long they persist.
NIH DMS Plan Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Data Preservation, Access, and Associated Timelines · NSTC Desirable Characteristics (2022), Organizational Infrastructure: 'Retention Policy' · RDA-A2-01M — 'Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available'
No file‑format token (open or proprietary) is named for the released data.
FsF-R1.3-02D — F-UJI: 'Data is available in a file format recommended by the target research co · RDA-R1.3-02D — data is expressed in a machine-understandable community standard · RDA-I1-01D — data uses a knowledge representation expressed in a standardised format
Advisory · not in the published score
No data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, an ontology) is named for the released data.
RDA-R1.3-01M — 'Metadata complies with a community standard' (priority Essential) · RDA-R1.3-01D — 'Data complies with a community standard' · RDA-I2-01M — '(Meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles'
No identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, build ID, etc.) is given for any external resource (source dataset, database, code) used by the study. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-I3-01M — '(meta)data include references to other (meta)data' · RDA-I3-03M — 'metadata includes qualified references to other metadata' · FsF-I3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes links between the data and its related entities'
No licence, Data Use Agreement, or terms document is named for the data; the article's CC‑BY licence applies to the paper, not the data.
RDA-R1.1-01M — 'Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be reu · RDA-R1.1-02M — 'Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence' · RDA-R1.1-03M — 'Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence'
No version token or date that pins a snapshot of the data is provided; the data collection period is given but not as a version identifier. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — the 'Version' property · RDA-R1.2-01M — provenance information (which version was used is provenance) · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Provenance', 'Retention Policy'
No code repository URL, archive DOI, or package identifier is given for the study's own code; only third‑party software is named.
NIH DMS Policy Element 2 (NOT-OD-21-014) — 'Related Tools, Software and/or Code' · FAIR4RS Principles v1.0 (Chue Hong et al., 2022; RDA/FORCE11/ReSA) — FAIR Principles for Resear · FORCE11 Software Citation Principles (Smith, Katz & Niemeyer, 2016, PeerJ CS 2:e86)
“U54GM088558”
Award numbers are attached to named funders (NIH NIGMS and NIAID). [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — 'FundingReference' property (funderName, funderIdentifier, award · Crossref Funder Registry — canonical funder identifiers for funding metadata · RDA-F2-01M — rich metadata provided to allow discovery (funding is part of the descriptive reco
Advisory · not in the published score
“Quidel Corporation provided us with de-identified influenza test results transmitted in real-time from a national network of influenza test machines called the Influenza Test System (ITS).”
The paper names the specific instrument (Quidel influenza test machines) and the software (R version 3.3.1, Mathematica version 10.4) used to produce and analyse the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1.2-01M — 'Metadata includes provenance information according to community- specific standa · FsF-R1.2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes provenance information about data creation or generati · W3C PROV-O (W3C Recommendation, 2013) — the entity/activity/agent model of provenance
No README, data dictionary, codebook, or schema file is mentioned as accompanying the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1-01M — '(Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attribu · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data' · NIH DMS Policy Element 3 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Standards (documentation and metadata to accompany t
Calibrated FAIR score — a parallel quality metric, independent of the DataRank citation score. See the full evaluation →
Base Score Contribution
0.477
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.674
From 14 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 21 citers.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Grant: U54GM088558
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Grant: 1K01AI119603
NIAID NIH HHS
Grant: K01 AI119603
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: UL1 TR001863
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1U54GM088558-01
MIDAS Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5K01AI119603-04
Improving the control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis through targeted screening and use of novel anti-tuberculosis drugs
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Additional file 1 of Lagging effects and prediction of pollutants and their interaction modifiers on influenza in northeastern China
Additional file 1 of Lagging effects and prediction of pollutants and their interaction modifiers on influenza in northeastern China