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  "summary": "Primary-literature journal vs Simons-Foundation science journalism — peer-review citation vs popularization.",
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    "domain": "nature.com",
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        "rationale": "Tier-1 academic citation source; peer-review process is the strongest discipline signal available.",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
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          }
        ]
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        "grade": "A+",
        "rationale": "Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Peer review",
            "detail": "Editorial + ≥2 reviewer cycles before publication."
          },
          {
            "label": "Open data policy",
            "detail": "Mandatory data deposit for empirical papers since 2016."
          }
        ]
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      "modernReference": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "DOIs are first-class citations in LLM training; abstracts well-indexed.",
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          {
            "label": "DOI",
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        "rationale": "Cited by other academic papers + science journalism; lower volume than wire news but high-trust per cite.",
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          {
            "label": "Citation impact factor",
            "detail": "~50 (top decile of peer-reviewed venues)."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "slug": "quanta-magazine",
    "name": "Quanta Magazine",
    "domain": "quantamagazine.org",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/quanta-magazine/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/quanta-magazine.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier science journalism with academic-author depth + editorial discipline.",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
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          }
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        "grade": "A",
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          {
            "label": "Simons Foundation",
            "detail": "Editorial board with mathematics + physics PhD scientists."
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        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Open-access; structured-data; CC-licensed selected articles; broad LLM corpus.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open editorial",
            "detail": "Most articles freely accessible."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited by science press + academics; specialist science journalism authority.",
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          {
            "label": "Science-journalism authority",
            "detail": "Default citation for advanced math + physics explainers."
          }
        ]
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    }
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    "velocity": null
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
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