PulseDB: A large, cleaned dataset based on MIMIC-III and VitalDB for benchmarking cuff-less blood pressure estimation methods is a dataset published in Frontiers in Digital Health (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.3, placing it in the top 9.1% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 86 times, with 81 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 67/100.
Ranks in the top 9% 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.
“10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/2447469”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a DOI for the dataset via the Kaggle page reference. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
“These subsets are available for download from Kaggle at (61), and can be reproduced from the script provided in the GitHub repository at (34).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Kaggle is named as a data repository holding the dataset. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“[Dataset] Wang W, Mohseni P, Kilgore KL, Najafizadeh L. PulseDB- Kaggle Page (2022). Available from: https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/2447469”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset appears as a reference-list entry with a DOI. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from 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
“The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author/s.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement points to the article and supplementary material, not to a repository record. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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
“Table 3 summarizes the demographic and BP distribution information of the proposed PulseDB dataset.”
The paper includes a table that provides an itemised inventory of the dataset's statistical properties. [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'
“All 5,245,454 10-s signal segments in the PulseDB dataset are available for download from the GitHub repository at (34), in the form of MATLAB structure arrays stored in 5,361 MATLAB data files, each corresponding to one subject in the dataset.”
The paper states that the data can be downloaded from a public repository with no 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
“All 5,245,454 10-s signal segments in the PulseDB dataset are available for download from the GitHub repository at (34)”
The paper describes an action (download from GitHub) but does not label the access level with an explicit term like 'open access'. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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 paper does not name any gatekeeper for access to the PulseDB dataset; the data is openly available.
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 any persistence commitment or availability timing for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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'
“in the form of MATLAB structure arrays stored in 5,361 MATLAB data files”
The data is released in MATLAB .mat files, which are proprietary.
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-standard vocabulary, ontology, or minimum-information checklist is named for the data. [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'
“10.13026/c2294b”
The paper includes a DOI for the MIMIC-III Waveform Database Matched Subset, a source dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Data derived from the MIMIC-III matched subset are released under the Open Database License (ODbL)”
An open standard license (ODbL) is named for part of 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 does not provide a version token or a date 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 GitHub repository (34) includes MATLAB scripts for reproducing the subject-balanced training set, calibration-based testing set, calibration-free testing set, as well as the AAMI testing set and the AAMI calibration set.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A machine-resolvable locator (GitHub URL) is given for the code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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)
“Award# 598202”
The paper provides specific award numbers for the funding.
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 R-peaks of the ECG signal were detected for each record using the Pan-Tompkins QRS detection algorithm (41).”
The paper names specific algorithms (Pan-Tompkins, Elgendi's algorithm) 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
“PulseDB contains 1) 5,245,454 high-quality 10-s segments of ECG, PPG, and arterial BP (ABP) waveforms from 5,361 subjects retrieved from the MIMIC-III waveform database matched subset and the VitalDB database; 2) subjects’ identification and demographic information, that can be utilized as additional input features to improve the performance of BP estimation models, or to evaluate the generalizability of the models to data from unseen subjects; and 3) positions of the characteristic points of the ECG/PPG signals”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data's content is described in prose within the article, but no separate documentation object is named as accompanying the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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
0.670
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.7
From 47 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 81 citers.
Craig. H. Neilsen Foundation
Grant: 598202
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01EB031911
NIBIB NIH HHS
Grant: R01 EB031911
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01EB031911-03
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FWCI
7.25
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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