Intermuscular coherence as an early biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: The protocol for a prospective, multicenter study is a dataset published in PLoS ONE (2024). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.250, placing it in the top 59.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 4 times, with 1 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 60% 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 is provided for the dataset; the data are only within the paper.
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 paper and its Supporting Information files.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
No repository is named as the holder of the data; the data are stated to be within the paper.
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
The dataset does not appear as a reference-list entry or in the body text as a cited dataset; it is only mentioned as a supplementary table.
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 paper and its Supporting Information files.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement points to the article and its supplementary information, not to a repository record. [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
“S1 Table Preliminary data table. IMC-βγ values measured in preliminary experiments and used to determine the IMC-βγ threshold between neurotypical and ALS subjects are presented.”
The paper includes a supplementary table (S1 Table) that itemises the preliminary data, serving as an itemised inventory. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License”
The data are within the open-access article and its supporting information, with no stated precondition for access. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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
“This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License”
No explicit access-level label is applied to the data, but the action of downloading the article is described. [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
The data are not sensitive, and no gatekeeper is named.
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
The paper does not state how long the data will be retained or when they become available (they are already available as part of the article).
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'
“S1 Table Preliminary data table. (DOCX)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The only named format for the data is DOCX (Supporting Information), which is proprietary. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 community data or metadata standard (e.g., MIAME, ontology) is named 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'
“We here outline the protocol for Intermuscular Coherence as a Biomarker for ALS (ALS-IMC) ( NCT05104710 )”
The paper mentions a clinical trial registration (NCT05104710) and funding grant numbers, but these are not identifiers for external data resources used by the study. [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 license is explicitly stated for the data; the CC BY license applies to the article, not the data. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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'
No version token or date is given for the data 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'
“Interpretation of IMC measurements would be performed with a standalone software package that analyzes surface EMG data and calculates IMC values”
The paper mentions a standalone software package but does not provide a locator for the 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)
“National Institutes of Health R01NS116262”
The paper names the National Institutes of Health and provides the grant number R01NS116262.
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
“Waveforms will be recorded using clinical EMG systems, either Natus ( http://neuro.natus.com/ ) or Cadwell ( http://cadwell.com/ )”
The paper names specific instruments (Natus, Cadwell EMG systems) and software used to produce the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“S1 Table Preliminary data table. IMC-βγ values measured in preliminary experiments and used to determine the IMC-βγ threshold between neurotypical and ALS subjects are presented. These data are plotted in Fig 1 . Age at exam is specified in years. ID: subject identifier, n/a: not available.”
Variable definitions (e.g., age, IMC values) are provided in the supplementary table caption, but no separate documentation object travels with the data. [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
8.30 × 10⁻³
From 1 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 1 citer.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R01NS116262
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01NS116262-04
Intermuscular coherence: A novel biomarker for upper motor neuron dysfunction in ALS
FWCI
1.08
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
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