Assessment of facility-based tuberculosis data quality in an integrated HIV/TB database in three South African districts is a dataset published in PLOS Global Public Health (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.603, placing it in the top 32.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 15 times, with 14 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 33% 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 of any scheme is given for the study's own 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 cannot be shared publicly because the local ethics committee restricts access.”
No repository is named; the data are held by the South African Government and access is restricted.
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
“Data cannot be shared publicly because the local ethics committee restricts access. Access to these data is subject to restrictions owing to privacy and ethics policies set by the South African Government, so they are not publicly available. Requests can be directed to: Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) Ross Greener [email protected] HE2RO’s Head of Data or [email protected].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement exists but points to a request route, not a repository record (Colavizza category 1). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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
“We created two datasets; the first included data from the TB module in TIER.Net and the TB Treatment Record, and the second focused on the TB Identification Register.”
The dataset content is described in running prose, not in an itemized inventory such as a section or table. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“Data cannot be shared publicly because the local ethics committee restricts access.”
The only access route is a discretionary request to an organization, which is not a followable process and scores as 'no'.
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
“Access to these data is subject to restrictions owing to privacy and ethics policies set by the South African Government, so they are not publicly available. Requests can be directed to: Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) Ross Greener [email protected]”
The text describes the access action (directing requests to HE2RO) but does not apply an explicit access-level label from the standard vocabulary. [majority verdict 'partial' (2/5 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
“Requests can be directed to: Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) Ross Greener [email protected] HE2RO’s Head of Data or [email protected].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
An institutional gatekeeper (HE2RO) is named for requesting access to sensitive human-subject data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 become available or how long they persist is present.
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
“The STROBE checklist for cross-sectional studies guided our documentation.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
STROBE is a manuscript reporting guideline, not a data/metadata standard. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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 an external resource (e.g., another dataset, database, or code) 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 for the data is named; the article's CC BY license does not apply to 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 is given to identify a snapshot of the dataset. [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 availability statement or locator is provided.
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)
“This study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP 1173131) under through the South African National TB Think Tank and Aurum Institute.”
An award number (OPP 1173131) is provided along with the funder name. [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
“Data collectors extracted data from 15 facilities between 15 October and 15 December 2020.”
The data collection process is described in generic terms without naming specific instruments or software used to produce the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 3 Accuracy of demographic information, by source of information (n = 277)”
Variable definitions are provided in the article's tables, not in a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
0.416
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.187
From 7 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 14 citers.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: OPP 1173131
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Grant: 72067419CA00004
Fogarty International Center
Grant: D43 TW010543
FWCI
1.00
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals