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      "value": 82,
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      "rationale": "DOIs + structured abstracts; metered paywall partial-LLM-corpus.",
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    "rank": {
      "global": 70,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
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    "winner": "bmj",
    "delta": 4,
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  },
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      "label": "Citation Discipline",
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      "pathSegment": "velocity",
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      "pathSegment": "index",
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