Human Metabolome Reference Database in a Biracial Cohort across the Adult Lifespan is a dataset published in Metabolites (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.492, placing it in the top 38.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 12 times, with 7 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 31/100.
Ranks in the top 39% 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 following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/metabo13050591/s1”
The paper gives a web address (URL) to the supplementary data, which is a doi.org link but not a PID for the dataset itself; no DOI or repository accession is provided for the dataset. [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 data were uploaded to the Biocrates Quantitative Metabolomics Database (QMDB) (biocrates.com/quantitative-metabolomics-database) as a subset of a large reference database that is continuously expanded [11].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names a specific repository (Biocrates Quantitative Metabolomics Database, QMDB) as the holder of the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/metabo13050591/s1”
The dataset identifier (supplementary material link) appears only in the body text, not as a reference-list entry. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Publicly available datasets were analyzed in this study. This data can be available upon request by proposal submission through the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging website ( www.blsa.nih.gov , accessed on 27 February 2023). All requests are reviewed by the Data Sharing Proposal Committee and are also subject to approval from the NIH Institutional Review Board.”
The statement points to a request-based route (Colavizza category 1), not a repository record with an identifier. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Reference values of metabolites on the original scale by age, sex, and race were exported from the QMDB and are presented in Supplementary Table S1.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper itemises the dataset in the form of a supplementary table (Supplementary Table S1) that provides descriptive statistics, which qualifies as an enumerated inventory. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“This data can be available upon request by proposal submission through the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging website ( www.blsa.nih.gov , accessed on 27 February 2023). All requests are reviewed by the Data Sharing Proposal Committee and are also subject to approval from the NIH Institutional Review Board.”
The paper gives a specified followable access process with preconditions (proposal submission, committee and IRB approval), but the data are not openly accessible without preconditions. [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 paper does not explicitly label the access level of the data produced in this study; it only describes the access process. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
“All requests are reviewed by the Data Sharing Proposal Committee and are also subject to approval from the NIH Institutional Review Board.”
The paper names an institutional gatekeeper (Data Sharing Proposal Committee and NIH IRB) for accessing the data, which are human-subject data.
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 when the data are available or how long they persist; no persistence commitment or availability timing is given.
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'
The paper does not name any file format for the released data; only the supplementary table is mentioned, but its format is not 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 (e.g., MIAME, MIAPE, or an ontology); the paper only uses standard analytical methods and KEGG pathways, which are not a compliance claim for the dataset 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'
No identifier (DOI, accession, RRID) for any external resource (e.g., reference database, cohort, software) is provided; the paper only mentions names or URLs.
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 paper does not state any license for the data; the Creative Commons Attribution license applies only to the article, not the dataset.
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 date 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'
The paper does not mention any code availability or provide a locator for the study's own 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)
“This study was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.”
The funder (National Institute on Aging) is named, but no award or grant number is provided.
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
“metabolites were extracted, and their concentrations were measured using the MxP Quant 500 kit (Biocrates Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck, Austria) following the manufacturer’s protocol for a 5500 QTrap instrument (Sciex, Framingham, MA, USA).”
The paper names specific instruments, kits, and software used to produce the data (MxP Quant 500 kit, 5500 QTrap, LC-MS/MS, FIA-MS/MS).
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
“Supplementary Table S1 lists all metabolite short names sorted by class and contains the mean and median concentrations, highest and lowest values, standard deviation, and quartiles.”
The variable definitions are inside the article (Supplementary Table S1), not shipped with the data as a separate documentation object. [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
0.385
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.107
From 5 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 7 citers.
FWCI
1.12
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
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