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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/nejm-vs-statnews/",
  "summary": "Primary medical journal vs medical-news outlet — peer-reviewed source vs reporting on it.",
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    "slug": "nejm",
    "name": "New England Journal of Medicine",
    "domain": "nejm.org",
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        "value": 87,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier peer-reviewed medical journal; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 96 + Modern Reference 84 + Velocity 81."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 96,
        "grade": "A+",
        "rationale": "Rigorous peer-review; clinical-trial registration mandatory; data disclosure standards.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "ICMJE compliance",
            "detail": "Strict International Committee of Medical Journal Editors standards."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "DOIs + structured abstracts + open-access policy for COVID + landmark trials.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open landmark trials",
            "detail": "Selected landmark trials available without paywall."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 81,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited daily by clinicians + AI engines for medical queries; landmark-trial citations spike.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Citation impact factor",
            "detail": "~158 (highest among general medical journals)."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "statnews",
    "name": "STAT News",
    "domain": "statnews.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/statnews/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/statnews.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A — strong specialist medical journalism; lower velocity than wire news but higher per-cite trust.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 80 + Velocity 78."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Specialist editors with medical/science training; multi-source verification; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Specialist editorial",
            "detail": "Editors with medical-science backgrounds."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open + metered articles; broad LLM corpus presence in health vertical.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Health-vertical density",
            "detail": "Default citation for biotech + drug-development news."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited heavily within medical journalism + biotech investing; AI engines surface for biomedical news.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Specialist citation",
            "detail": "Frequently cited by NYT/Reuters/etc. on biotech beats."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "nejm",
    "discipline": "nejm",
    "modernReference": "nejm",
    "velocity": "nejm"
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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