A protocol for the development of a validated scale of household water insecurity in the United States: HWISE-USA is a dataset published in PLoS ONE (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.448, placing it in the top 42% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 13 times, with 5 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 13/100.
Ranks in the top 42% 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 for the dataset because the data have not yet been produced or deposited.
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 data-availability statement only promises future availability without specifying a repository.
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 dataset identifier appears anywhere in the text, because no data have been generated yet; the paper is a protocol.
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
“No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. All relevant data from this study will be made available upon study completion.”
The data-availability statement exists but points to future availability rather than a specific repository record or persistent identifier (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
“Table 1 Candidate items for scale, by water insecurity construct.”
The paper includes a table (Table 1) that itemises the planned survey items, serving as an itemised inventory of the future dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“All relevant data from this study will be made available upon study completion.”
The data-availability statement includes a precondition (upon study completion) that must be satisfied before access is granted, and there is no current unconditional route to the data.
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
“All relevant data from this study will be made available upon study completion.”
The data-availability statement describes an action (making data available upon study completion) but does not use a standard access-level label such as 'open access' or 'restricted access'. [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
“No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. All relevant data from this study will be made available upon study completion.”
The paper states that data will be made available upon study completion but names no gatekeeper (institutional or personal) for data access, even though the data involve human subjects.
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
“All relevant data from this study will be made available upon study completion.”
The paper states when data become available (upon study completion) but makes no commitment about how long the data will 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 file format is named for the released data; the data are not yet generated and no format is specified.
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; the SPIROS guideline mentioned is a manuscript reporting guideline, not a data standard. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
The paper does not provide an identifier for any external resource (e.g., source dataset, reference database) that the data depend on or derive from. [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 of use are named for the data; the paper's CC-BY licence applies only to the article, 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'
The paper provides no version token or date to identify a specific snapshot of the data; the data are not yet generated.
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 locator is given; the paper mentions software contributions but does not provide a repository URL, DOI, or any way to access 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 Science Foundation BCS-1759972”
The paper provides multiple award numbers (BCS-1759972, R01CA239187) 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
“We will administer the survey using SurveyCTO version 2.71”
The paper names specific tools and software versions used to produce the data (SurveyCTO 2.71, R software). [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
“Table 1 Candidate items for scale, by water insecurity construct.”
The definitions of the data items (the survey questions) are provided inside the article in Table 1, but no separate documentation object (e.g., README, codebook) is named as accompanying 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
0.396
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0521
From 3 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 5 citers.
National Science Foundation
Grant: BCS-2017491
NICHD NIH HHS
Grant: R03 HD113976
National Science Foundation
Grant: BCS-1759972
National Science Foundation
Grant: GCR-2021147
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Grant: R01CA239187
National Science Foundation
Grant: BCS-2143766
National Science Foundation
Grant: EEC-1449500
National Science Foundation
Grant: 2021147
GCR: Coevolution of Social and Physical Infrastructure and Improved Access to Clean Water in Informal Water Sharing Systems
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1759972
RCN: Building A Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity Research
National Science Foundation
Grant: 2017491
The Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP): Advanced Research Training for Ph.D. Students
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01CA239187-05
Impact of ecological park restoration on health in low income neighborhoods: A natural experiment
National Science Foundation
Grant: 2143766
CAREER: Moral Economies in Water Markets: Implications for Understanding Human Responses to Water Insecurity
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1449500
NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nantechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT)
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