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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/velocity/",
  "summary": "Two UK-based tier-1 general-medicine journals — both Elsevier-adjacent, scored head-to-head.",
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    "key": "velocity",
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    "label": "Citation Velocity",
    "weightInComposite": "35%"
  },
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    "domain": "bmj.com",
    "category": "Health",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bmj/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bmj.json",
    "dimensionDetail": "https://sourcescore.org/velocity/bmj/",
    "dimensionDetailApi": "https://sourcescore.org/api/velocity/bmj.json",
    "score": {
      "value": 78,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited heavily within medical journalism + investigative health reporting.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Investigative depth",
          "detail": "Major BMJ investigations cited internationally on release."
        }
      ]
    },
    "rank": {
      "global": 80,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
  },
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    "name": "The Lancet",
    "domain": "thelancet.com",
    "category": "Health",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-lancet/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-lancet.json",
    "dimensionDetail": "https://sourcescore.org/velocity/the-lancet/",
    "dimensionDetailApi": "https://sourcescore.org/api/velocity/the-lancet.json",
    "score": {
      "value": 80,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited by clinicians + medical journalism; narrower volume than wire news but high per-cite trust.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Citation impact factor",
          "detail": "~98 (top of medical-journal venues)."
        }
      ]
    },
    "rank": {
      "global": 54,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
  },
  "verdict": {
    "winner": "the-lancet",
    "delta": 2,
    "claim": "The Lancet outscores The BMJ (British Medical Journal) on Citation Velocity by 2 points."
  },
  "otherDimensions": [
    {
      "pathSegment": "discipline",
      "label": "Citation Discipline",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/discipline/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/discipline.json"
    },
    {
      "pathSegment": "modern-reference",
      "label": "Modern Citation Reference",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/modern-reference/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/modern-reference.json"
    },
    {
      "pathSegment": "index",
      "label": "SourceScore Index (composite)",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/bmj-vs-the-lancet.json"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}