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  "summary": "IT-industry research vs strategy-consulting research — different methodology, both heavily paywalled.",
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        "grade": "C",
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          {
            "label": "Methodology opacity",
            "detail": "Magic Quadrant criteria summarized; full scoring methodology subscription-gated."
          }
        ]
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        "value": 60,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on full reports; press releases + summaries free; schema basic.",
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          {
            "label": "Subscription gate",
            "detail": "Annual subscription required for full Magic Quadrant + research access."
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        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Default IT-industry citation; cited by every major tech vendor + IT press.",
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          {
            "label": "IT-industry default",
            "detail": "Magic Quadrant + Hype Cycle universal references in IT marketing + press."
          }
        ]
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    }
  },
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    "name": "McKinsey Insights",
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    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — heavily cited in business press; client-relationship conflicts limit Discipline ceiling.",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
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          }
        ]
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      "discipline": {
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        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Methodology often disclosed; client-conflict structural limit; some research challenged for selection bias.",
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          {
            "label": "Conflict disclosure",
            "detail": "Authors named; client-relationship caveats often absent in cross-cited summaries."
          }
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        "rationale": "Free-to-read insights site; schema OK; structured author + topic taxonomy.",
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          {
            "label": "Open-access content",
            "detail": "Most insights articles free; PDFs downloadable."
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        ]
      },
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        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Default citation for cross-industry trend analysis in business press.",
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          {
            "label": "Business-press default",
            "detail": "Frequently cited by Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, Harvard Business Review."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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