Deep learning in rare disease. Detection of tubers in tuberous sclerosis complex is a dataset published in PLoS ONE (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.6, placing it in the top 13.1% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 35 times, with 31 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 13% 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 (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession) is given for the neuroimaging dataset. [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 passes agreed)]
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 neuroimaging data; the IRB is not a repository. [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 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 dataset appears anywhere in the paper. [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 passes agreed)]
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
“All code and results are available. The original neuroimages are not directly available because public distribution of patient data has to be requested to the Institutional Review Board. There are legal and ethical restrictions on how to share clinical data. Medical researchers with proper training on the ethical management of de-identified clinical data should contact the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital ( [email protected] ) to request data access.”
The statement points to a request process (IRB) rather than a repository record. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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
“The data were divided into 566 images for TSC training (69 patients), 130 images for TSC validation (20 patients), 210 images for TSC testing (25 patients), 561 images for control training (69 patients), 118 images for control validation (20 patients), and 226 images for control testing (25 patients).”
The dataset content is described in running prose, not in a section, table, or enumerated list.
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'
“Medical researchers with proper training on the ethical management of de-identified clinical data should contact the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital ( [email protected] ) to request data access.”
Access requires training and a request to the IRB, which is a stated precondition.
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
“Medical researchers with proper training on the ethical management of de-identified clinical data should contact the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital ( [email protected] ) to request data access.”
The paper describes the action of contacting the IRB to request access, but does not use an explicit access-level label.
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
“Medical researchers with proper training on the ethical management of de-identified clinical data should contact the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital ( [email protected] ) to request data access.”
The Institutional Review Board at Boston Children's Hospital is named as the institutional gatekeeper for data access.
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 states when the data become 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 format is named for the released data (the neuroimages are not released). [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 passes agreed)]
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 is named.
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'
“dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bdt3i6qn”
The protocol DOI is a qualified reference to a resource (the supplementary methods) that the data depend on. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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 license is stated for the dataset; 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 for the released dataset.
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'
“All code with results and full models can be found at: https://ivansanchezfernandez.github.io/TSC_code_results_models/”
A machine-resolvable URL for the code is provided. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 passes agreed)]
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)
“JMP, MS, HN, JYW, DK and MEB were supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NINDS) and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) under Award Number U01NS082320.”
An award number (U01NS082320) is given. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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
“We only selected two-dimensional axial T2 and FLAIR sequences for both patients with TSC and controls.”
The data production is described in generic terms without naming the specific MRI instrument or kit. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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 documentation object (README, codebook) is named as accompanying the data.
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
0.538
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.0
From 24 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 31 citers.
NINDS NIH HHS
Grant: U01 NS082320
NICHD NIH HHS
Grant: U54 HD090255
FWCI
3.06
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
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