Characterization of 843 children with Zika-related microcephaly in the first three years of life: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 12 cohorts in the Zika Brazilian Cohorts consortium is a dataset published in PLOS Global Public Health (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.104, placing it in the top 77.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 1 time, with 1 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 6/100.
Ranks in the top 78% 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.
The paper provides no persistent identifier string (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) for its 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'
No repository is named as the holder of the data; the only contact is an institutional email address, which is not a repository host. [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 for the paper's own dataset appears anywhere in the text, in the body or in the reference list.
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 generated and analyzed during this study is included in the article and its supplementary information files.”
The statement points to the article and supplementary files as the location of the data, which is Colavizza category 2 (data contained within the article/supplementary materials).
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
“This study included individual participant data from children in the ZBC-Consortium with a definitive, highly probable, or moderately probable diagnosis of CZS and moderate or severe microcephaly.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's content is described in running prose, but there is no itemised inventory (section, table, or list) that enumerates files or variables. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“de-identified data can be made available upon reasonable request from qualified investigators by contacting the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde (PPGCS) da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE) at [email protected].”
The only route to the actual study data (the IPD) is a discretionary request to an institutional contact, which is not a followable process, so the data are not openly accessible. [majority verdict 'no' (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
“de-identified data can be made available upon reasonable request from qualified investigators by contacting the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde (PPGCS) da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE) at [email protected].”
The paper describes the access action but does not apply a standard access-level label from the COAR vocabulary. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“de-identified data can be made available upon reasonable request from qualified investigators by contacting the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde (PPGCS) da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE) at [email protected].”
The gatekeeper is an institutional email address, not a named person, but also not a controlled-access repository or Data Access Committee; the route is a request to an institution, which is partial. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 addresses when the data become available or how long they persist. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 for the released data is named anywhere in the text.
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 paper does not name a FAIRsharing-registered data or metadata standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, an ontology).
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., another dataset accession, DOI, RRID, reference assembly) is given in the text. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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 or terms document is named for the data; the Creative Commons Attribution license applies to the article, not the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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'
“the latest evaluation was on October 17, 2019.”
The paper provides a date (the latest evaluation date) that pins the snapshot of the data, but no version token. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 location or availability statement is given for the study's own analysis code.
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)
“Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq (grant number 404861/2018-0 RAAX)”
The paper lists specific grant numbers attached to named funders, satisfying the award-number class. [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
“All analyses were performed using STATA, version 14 (College Station, TX, USA).”
The paper names specific software (STATA version 14) used to produce the analysis data, meeting the named-tool class. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“In the current study we evaluated: severity of microcephaly, proportionality, prematurity (gestational age of <37 weeks at delivery), low birth weight (birth weight of <2500g at delivery)…”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions are provided inside the article text (in the Methods section), but no separate documentation object (README, data dictionary) is said to accompany the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
0.104
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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Grant: 404861/2018-0
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 205377/Z/16/Z
Department for International Development, UK Government
Grant: 201870/Z/16/Z
Horizon 2020
Grant: 734584
Zika Preparedness Latin American Network
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 107779/Z/15/Z
Wellcome Trust
Grant: ER1505 & ER1601
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_PC_15088
Zika: Cohort study of pregnant women with rash in Pernambuco State
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Grant: RO1/AI140718
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 443875/2018-9
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Grant: 88881.130813/2016-01
Ministério da Saúde
Grant: 837058/2016
Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Grant: 25000.072811/2016-19
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Grant: 2016/08578-0
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Grant: E-26/201.351/2016
Ministério da Saúde
Grant: 929698560001160-02
Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco
Grant: APQ-0172-4.01/16; APQ-0192-4.01/17
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 224494/B/21/Z
Wellcome Trust
Grant: ER1605
Ministério da Saúde
Grant: 861306/2016
Ministério da Saúde
Grant: 881705/2018
Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Grant: 440839/2016-5
Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco
Grant: APQ-0793-4.01/17
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 440573/2016-5
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 441098/2016-9; 305090/2016-0
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 307282/2017-1
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 304476/2018-8
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 309722/2017-9
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 306708/2014-0
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Grant: 440577/2016-0
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Grant: 88887.116627/2016-01
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Grant: E-18/2015TXB
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Grant: E-26/202.862/2018
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão
Grant: 008/2016
FWCI
0.38
Citation Percentile
0.6%
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