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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/jstor-vs-semantic-scholar/",
  "summary": "Closed humanities archive vs AI-augmented research-paper graph — discovery, not publication.",
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        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — primary humanities + social-science archive; paywall + access limits cap Modern Reference.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 90 + Modern Reference 75 + Velocity 80."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 90,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Aggregator of peer-reviewed journals; underlying content meets discipline standards of source journals.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Curation discipline",
            "detail": "Inclusion limited to peer-reviewed academic content."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 75,
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        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Institutional gate",
            "detail": "Most content requires institutional subscription; growing free archive."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Heavy academic citation; less in news + AI-engine retrieval due to access gates.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Academic-default",
            "detail": "Primary citation source in humanities + social science papers."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "name": "Semantic Scholar",
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    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/semantic-scholar/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/semantic-scholar.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 83,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A — academic-citation infrastructure; AI-powered indexing + free APIs.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 86 + Modern Reference 92 + Velocity 72."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Indexes only peer-reviewed-or-equivalent venues; AI quality-filtering; transparent methodology.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "AI2 editorial",
            "detail": "Allen Institute editorial + indexing standards."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 92,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Free public API + bulk corpus + CC-licensed metadata; broad LLM corpus inclusion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "S2 Open Research API",
            "detail": "Free public API with full metadata + abstract."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 72,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited within academic + AI research; lower volume than DOI/PubMed but high-quality.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Academic-niche",
            "detail": "Frequently cited as second-opinion alongside DOI."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "index": "semantic-scholar",
    "discipline": "jstor",
    "modernReference": "semantic-scholar",
    "velocity": "jstor"
  },
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}