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  "summary": "Two flagship European weeklies — Spiegel's German investigative depth vs Economist's global liberal frame.",
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      "globalTotal": 130
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    "name": "The Economist",
    "domain": "economist.com",
    "category": "News",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-economist/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-economist.json",
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    "score": {
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      "rationale": "Weekly print + daily online; cited heavily in finance and policy discourse.",
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        {
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    },
    "rank": {
      "global": 73,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
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    "winner": "the-economist",
    "delta": 2,
    "claim": "The Economist outscores Der Spiegel on Citation Velocity by 2 points."
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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