A retrospective analysis of pathogen profile, antimicrobial resistance and mortality in neonatal hospital-acquired bloodstream infections from 2009–2018 at Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa is a dataset published in PLoS ONE (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.5, placing it in the top 13.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 42 times, with 31 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 38/100.
Ranks in the top 14% 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.
“Data Availability All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
No persistent identifier is given for the dataset; the data are only stated to be within the manuscript.
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 All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
No repository is named; the data are within the manuscript.
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
“Data Availability All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
No identifier for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper.
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 All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
The statement points to the article itself, not to 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
“Neonatal clinical and laboratory data from 2014 to 2018 (Period 2) was compared with published data from 2009 to 2013 (Period 1).”
The dataset's content is described in running prose with no itemised inventory such as a section, table, or list. [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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 Availability All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
The data are within the manuscript, which is openly accessible under CC-BY, so no precondition. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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
“Data Availability All relevant data are within the manuscript.”
The paper only states that data are within the manuscript, without labeling the access level. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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
“A waiver of individual informed consent was granted through the Human Health Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University (S18/10/262) and approval was granted by Tygerberg Hospital management.”
The paper does not name any gatekeeper for data access; the data are aggregated and within the manuscript.
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 retention or availability timing is made for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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 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 is named; CLSI breakpoints are a methods standard, not a data standard. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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., database, 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'
“This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License”
The CC-BY license applies to the article and thus to the data within it. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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'
No version token or date is given for the dataset snapshot.
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'
The paper does not provide a locator for the study's own 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)
“AD is supported by a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award K43 TW010682 and receives funding for neonatal infection research from the South African Medical Research Council.”
A specific award number (K43 TW010682) 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
“The automated BacT/Alert blood culture incubation system and BacT/Alert PF Plus bottles (Biomérieux, Marcy l’Ètoile, France) have been in use since April 2011; prior to this, the BACTEC system (Becton Dickinson, New Jersey, USA) and BACTEC Peds Plus/F bottles were used.”
The paper names specific instruments and kits used to produce the data.
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 1 Comparison of key variables in neonatal hospital-acquired bloodstream infection at Tygerberg Hospital from 2009–2018, and comparison between the Period 1 (2009–2013) and Period 2 (2014–2018).”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article in tables, not as a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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
0.564
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.960
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.
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Grant: K43 TW010682
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1K43TW010682-01
Developing a care bundle for neonatal sepsis prevention in low-resource settings
South African Medical Research Council
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Sustainable Development Goals
Additional file 1 of NeoCLEAN: a multimodal strategy to enhance environmental cleaning in a resource-limited neonatal unit
Additional file 1 of NeoCLEAN: a multimodal strategy to enhance environmental cleaning in a resource-limited neonatal unit