The Brain Observatory Storage Service and Database (BossDB): A Cloud-Native Approach for Petascale Neuroscience Discovery is a dataset published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.3, placing it in the top 16.3% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 45 times, with 28 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 19/100.
Ranks in the top 16% 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.
No persistent identifier is given for the dataset; the only identifier is the paper's DOI, which identifies the article, not the data.
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'
“The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are not deposited in a repository; the holder is the article itself, not a named 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 identifier for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper; the data are described as included in the article/supplementary material without a persistent identifier.
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 materials, which is Colavizza category 2 (data contained within the article). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
The paper contains no itemised inventory, table, or section describing the files, variables, or size of the dataset; only the platform is described.
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'
“The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are included in the open-access article, available without stated precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement says the data are included in the article/supplementary material, which implies access via the article, but no explicit access-level label is given. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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 paper does not involve sensitive or human-subject data, so 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
No sentence in the paper states when the data become available or how long they persist; the only persistence statement concerns the BossDB platform, not this study's own data.
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 article/supplementary material); the formats mentioned in Table 1 are for data ingested into BossDB, not for this study's own 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 for this study's data; the paper discusses formats and standards for the BossDB platform but not for the data itself.
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 references external resources (e.g., GitHub repositories, other datasets) but these are not identifiers for resources that the study's own data depend on or derive from; the study's data are the article itself.
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 is named for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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; the article is published with a date but that is for the paper, not the data.
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'
“More information, examples and support are available at https://bossdb.org and https://github.com/jhuapl-boss/”
The paper provides a GitHub repository URL for the BossDB code, which is a machine-resolvable locator for the study's own code. [majority verdict 'yes' (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)
“This material is based upon work supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants R24MH114799, R24MH114785, and R01MH126684 under the NIH BRAIN Initiative Informatics Program and by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and Intelligent Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via IARPA Contract No. 2017-17032700004-005 under the MICrONS program.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Specific grant numbers and a contract number are provided for the funding sources. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 paper does not describe how the data (the article content) were produced; it describes the development of the BossDB platform, not data generation. [majority verdict 'no' (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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is named for the data; the data are the article/supplementary material with no defined variables.
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
0.574
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.691
From 23 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 28 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R24MH114799-03
SABER: Scalable Analytics for Brain Exploration Research using X-Ray Microtomography and Electron Microscopy
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01MH126684-01
Big-Data Electron-microscopy for Novel Community Hypotheses: Measuring And Retrieving Knowledge (BENCHMARK)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2R24MH114785-06
Boss: A cloud-based data archive for electron microscopy and x-ray microtomography
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH126684
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R24 MH114785
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R24 MH114799
FWCI
4.00
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
FAIRsharing record for: Brain Observatory Storage Service & Database