Accessing HIV care may lead to earlier ascertainment of comorbidities in health care clients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town is a dataset published in PLOS Global Public Health (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.241, placing it in the top 61.3% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 4 times, with 2 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 61% for downstream scientific impact
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 such as a DOI, accession, or Handle 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'
“These anonymized, perturbed data were provided for analysis by the Western Cape Department of Health, Provincial Health Data Centre.”
The holder is a government health data centre, not a curated repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing, so it is a non-repository host.
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 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
“These anonymized, perturbed data were provided for analysis by the Western Cape Department of Health, Provincial Health Data Centre. These are highly granular health data linked to individual health care clients in the province and no informed consent has been given for research use. For this reason, the Western Cape Department of Health does not permit open sharing but instead grants only primary use permission for the data. Re-use of this dataset requires approval from the Western Cape Department of Health (Provincial Health Data Centre), and Dr Moodley, Director: HIA, Western Cape Department of Health, South Africa can be contacted to advise on this process (email: [email protected] , Reference study ID 259-TIFFIN).”
The statement points to a third party (Western Cape Department of Health) with a defined process, not to a repository record.
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
“The comorbidities assessed were tuberculosis (TB)–using the age of ascertainment for first known episode, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or asthma (COPD/Asthma), hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), cervical cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and mental health diagnoses.”
The dataset content is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory or section/table dedicated to the data.
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'
“Re-use of this dataset requires approval from the Western Cape Department of Health (Provincial Health Data Centre), and Dr Moodley, Director: HIA, Western Cape Department of Health, South Africa can be contacted to advise on this process (email: [email protected] , Reference study ID 259-TIFFIN).”
The text gives a defined followable access process with a precondition (approval required), so it is a partial route. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
“Re-use of this dataset requires approval from the Western Cape Department of Health (Provincial Health Data Centre), and Dr Moodley, Director: HIA, Western Cape Department of Health, South Africa can be contacted to advise on this process (email: [email protected] , Reference study ID 259-TIFFIN).”
The paper describes the access process but does not label the access level with a standard term. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Re-use of this dataset requires approval from the Western Cape Department of Health (Provincial Health Data Centre), and Dr Moodley, Director: HIA, Western Cape Department of Health, South Africa can be contacted to advise on this process (email: [email protected] , Reference study ID 259-TIFFIN).”
The Western Cape Department of Health is an institutional gatekeeper for these sensitive human-subject data. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 statement about 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 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
“ICD-10 diagnosis codes”
ICD-10 is a community standard controlled vocabulary used for the 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 for any external resource (e.g., source dataset, reference database) is provided.
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 license or reuse terms are named for 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 pins the snapshot of the data.
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 availability is mentioned; only software names are given.
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)
“Wellcome Trust 203135/Z/16/Z”
A specific grant number is provided.
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
No specific instruments, platforms, or software versions used to produce the data are named; the data are secondary and production details are not given. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
“Table 2 Comorbidities counts and median age (in years) at ascertainment in HIV-negative vs HIV-positive for all healthcare seekers.”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article in tables, not as a separate documentation object. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
0.241
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0
From 0 citing papers with measurable signal
This paper's DataRank is currently driven only by its base citation score. None of the citing papers had measurable citation signal.
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National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG006941-07
H3ABioNet: informatics solutions for H3Africa
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203135
Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HD080465-02
B positive_A population based evaluation of expanded ART access in pregnancy
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Sustainable Development Goals