Comprehensive Circulatory Metabolomics in ME/CFS Reveals Disrupted Metabolism of Acyl Lipids and Steroids is a dataset published in Metabolites (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.8, placing it in the top 7.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 93 times, with 82 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 8% 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 (DOI, accession, etc.) is given for the dataset; only supplementary file names are mentioned. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
“The datasets generated for this cohort are available for download as Supplementary Files 1 and 2.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are held as supplementary material within the journal article, not in a named repository. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“The datasets generated for this cohort are available for download as Supplementary Files 1 and 2.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (supplementary file reference) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 datasets generated for this cohort are available for download as Supplementary Files 1 and 2.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to supplementary material within the article (Colavizza category 2). [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
“The global metabolomics panel performed on plasma yielded measurements for 768 identified compounds, sub-categorized into nine metabolic super-pathways... Across 52 subjects, there are a cumulative 39,936 datapoints...”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset content is described in running prose, not in an itemised section, table, or list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 datasets generated for this cohort are available for download as Supplementary Files 1 and 2.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are stated to be available for download with no precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“The datasets generated for this cohort are available for download as Supplementary Files 1 and 2.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement describes an action (download) but does not label the access level with a standard term. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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 data are openly accessible as supplementary files; 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 addresses how long the data persist or when they become available.
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'
“resulting in two distinct datasets provided as excel tables.”
The only format named is Excel (proprietary). [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 named community standard (e.g., MIAME, MIxS) is applied to the data; HMDB and KEGG are used for annotation but not as a standard for the data.
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 identifier for an external resource (e.g., another dataset, reference genome) is given; only literature citations and HMDB IDs for mapping are present. [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'
The article's CC BY license is not explicitly attached to the data; the data are not separately licensed. [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 dataset.
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 R-script for the sub-pathway-based analysis is available at www.github.com/barupal.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A code repository URL is provided for the study's own code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 research was funded by NIH NIAID 1 R01 AI107762 for sample acquisition; NIH NINDS U54NS105541 for data acquisition”
Specific award numbers are given 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
“Plasma samples were thawed and 400 μL of each sample was shipped frozen on dry ice to Metabolon ® ’s facility in NC for analysis.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text names the specific service provider (Metabolon) and its panels as the data production platform. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 README, codebook, or data dictionary is mentioned; variable definitions are only in the text. [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
0.681
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
2.1
From 65 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 82 citers.
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Grant: 1 R01 AI107762
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Grant: U54NS105541
NIAID NIH HHS
Grant: R01 AI107762
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U54NS105541-03
Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01AI107762-03
Immune cell gene expression and predictive models in CFS
FWCI
7.50
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
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