Peripheral Arterial Disease prevalence and risk factors in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) cohort is a dataset published in PLoS ONE (2024). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.208, placing it in the top 64.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 3 times, with 2 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 13/100.
Ranks in the top 65% 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 does not provide any persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, 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'
“Reasonable requests for access to ECHORN data can be made to the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review (DASR) committee via the authors' website ( https://www.echorn.org/request-echorn-data ) or via email to the ECHORN Coordinating Center ( [email protected] ).”
The paper names a committee (DASR) and a website, but no repository (e.g., GEO, Dryad) is named as the holder of the data.
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 or link for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, not in the body text nor 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
“At the time that this cohort was empaneled, the public sharing of data was not anticipated. The authors therefore did not indicate to any of the five Institutional Review Boards they applied to for ethical approval, that the data would be shared. The informed consent form stated specifically: “Only aggregated (everybody who participates will have their information joined together so no one person can be identified) anonymous (no names) data will be presented in any publicly disseminated materials.” The authors believe making data in a non-aggregated form freely available in a public repository will breach this commitment and the IRB approvals we obtained. Reasonable requests for access to ECHORN data can be made to the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review (DASR) committee via the authors' website ( https://www.echorn.org/request-echorn-data ) or via email to the ECHORN Coordinating Center ( [email protected] ).”
The data-availability statement points to a request process (committee contact) rather than to a repository record, placing it in Colavizza category 1.
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
“Participants completed a baseline survey which included questions on diabetes and hypertension diagnosis. Survey items were self-administered on a tablet computer. The physical examination included measurement of weight and height which were used to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset content is described in running prose within the methods section, but no itemised inventory (section, table, or list) of files or variables is provided. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 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'
“Reasonable requests for access to ECHORN data can be made to the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review (DASR) committee via the authors' website ( https://www.echorn.org/request-echorn-data ) or via email to the ECHORN Coordinating Center ( [email protected] ).”
The text specifies a followable access process with a precondition (application to the DASR committee), which is a defined controlled-access procedure, not a discretionary request to a person.
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
“Reasonable requests for access to ECHORN data can be made to the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review (DASR) committee via the authors' website ( https://www.echorn.org/request-echorn-data ) or via email to the ECHORN Coordinating Center ( [email protected] ).”
The paper describes an action (submit a request) but applies no explicit access-level label such as 'open access' or 'restricted access', so the access level must be inferred. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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
“Reasonable requests for access to ECHORN data can be made to the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review (DASR) committee via the authors' website ( https://www.echorn.org/request-echorn-data ) or via email to the ECHORN Coordinating Center ( [email protected] ).”
The paper names an institutional gatekeeper, the ECHORN Data Access and Scientific Review committee, for controlled access to the human-subject data.
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 states when the data become available or how long they persist; only a request process is described.
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; the paper does not describe any data deposit.
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 (e.g., MIAME, Dublin Core, ontology) is named in the paper; only clinical guidelines are referenced.
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'
The paper does not provide an identifier (accession, DOI, RRID) for any external resource that the data depend on or derive from; reference-list entries are for other literature, not data resources.
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 CC-BY license applies to the article only, not 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 provided to pin a snapshot of the data; the data are not deposited in a versioned repository.
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 mention the availability of any code written for the study; only third-party software (SAS) is named.
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 work was supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities through the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN)-U24MD006939 and through the Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research focused on Precision Medicine (Yale-TCC)-U54MD010711. Support was also provided by the CTSA Grant Number KL2 TR001862 and KL2 RR024138 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”
The paper explicitly lists grant numbers (U24MD006939, U54MD010711, KL2 TR001862, KL2 RR024138) attached to named funders.
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
“A WatchBP® (Microlife Switzerland) office automated ABI machine was used to determine both BP and ABI.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific instruments (WatchBP) and software (SAS 9.4) used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“ABI values were categorised into PAD (ABI ≤0.90), borderline (ABI 0.91.-0.99), normal (ABI 1.00 to 1.40) and noncompressible (ABI >1.40)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions are provided within the article text (e.g., ABI categories), but no separate documentation object (README, codebook) is named as accompanying the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
0.208
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: U24MD006939
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Grant: U54MD010711
National Center for Advancing Translational Science
Grant: KL2 TR001862
National Center for Advancing Translational Science
Grant: KL2 RR024138
FWCI
1.29
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
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