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        {
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    },
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      "global": 117,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
  },
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    "winner": "ars-technica",
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    "claim": "Ars Technica outscores Hacker News on Modern Citation Reference by 10 points."
  },
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      "label": "Citation Discipline",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/ars-technica-vs-hacker-news/discipline/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/ars-technica-vs-hacker-news/discipline.json"
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    {
      "pathSegment": "velocity",
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    {
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      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/ars-technica-vs-hacker-news/",
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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