Association between Neighborhood Social Deprivation and Stage at Diagnosis among Breast Cancer Patients in South Carolina is a dataset published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.3, placing it in the top 15.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 28 times, with 24 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
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.
The paper does not provide any persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) for the study's 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'
“Data was obtained from South Carolina Department of Health and are available from the authors with the permission of South Carolina Department of Health.”
The named holder is the South Carolina Department of Health, which is not a standard repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
No identifier for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, neither in the reference list nor in the body text.
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
“Restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data was obtained from South Carolina Department of Health and are available from the authors with the permission of South Carolina Department of Health.”
The data availability statement exists but directs to a request-based process (Colavizza category 1), not a repository record.
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
“We abstracted sociodemographic and clinical variables from the registry and linked these data to a county-level composite that captured neighborhood social conditions—the social deprivation index (SDI).”
The dataset's content and extent are described in running prose, but no itemised inventory (section, table, or list) of files or variables is provided. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“Restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data was obtained from South Carolina Department of Health and are available from the authors with the permission of South Carolina Department of Health.”
The text gives a route to the data but with a precondition (permission required from South Carolina Department of Health), which is a followable process. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“Restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data was obtained from South Carolina Department of Health and are available from the authors with the permission of South Carolina Department of Health.”
The paper does not use a standard access-rights label but describes an access action (request with permission from DHEC). [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
“Data was obtained from South Carolina Department of Health and are available from the authors with the permission of South Carolina Department of Health.”
The South Carolina Department of Health (DHEC) is named as an institutional gatekeeper that must grant permission for data access.
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 statement about the timing of availability or persistence of the data is present.
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.
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
“The main outcome variable was cancer stage at diagnosis using the definition from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper uses SEER summary staging definitions, a community standard for cancer stage classification. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
No persistent identifier (accession, DOI, RRID) is given for any external resource used in the study.
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 reuse license is named for 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 given to identify a specific snapshot of 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'
No code availability is mentioned; the study's own code is not provided.
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)
“Oluwole A. Babatunde was supported by a National Cancer Institute’s K00 Fellowship grant (F99 CA 222722 and K00 CA 222722). Swann A. Adams was supported by a National Cancer Institute’s R15 grant (R15CA179355) as principal investigator. Chanita Hughes-Halbert was supported by a National Cancer Institute’s R21 grant (R21 CA 235852).”
The paper lists specific grant numbers from the National Cancer Institute.
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
“Statistical analyses were performed utilizing SAS version 9.4.”
The paper names the specific software version (SAS 9.4) used for data analysis. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 Sample characteristics, overall and by stage at cancer diagnosis (n = 52,803).”
Variable definitions are inside the article table, not shipped with the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
0.505
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.793
From 19 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 24 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5 K00 CA222722 04
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R21 CA235852
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R15 CA179355
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: F99 CA222722
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: K00 CA253576
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5F99CA222722-02
Identifying predictors of racial disparity in treatment and mortality among patients diagnosed with breast cancer in South Carolina and geospatial investigation of breast cancer patient navigation
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R15CA179355-01A1
A Geospatial Investigation of Breast Cancer Treatment
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R21CA235852-01
Science of Behavior Change in African American Breast Cancer Survivors
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Sustainable Development Goals