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Asahi Shimbun

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Japan's tier-1 daily since 1879; English edition asahi.com/ajw partial open access.

SourceScore Index
B·71Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

B — premier Japanese-language source; English edition limited; paywall + Japanese-language reduces Modern Ref.

Citation Discipline
B·80

Long editorial tradition; named bylines; corrections public; fact-check department.

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Modern Reference
C·65

Hard paywall on Japanese content; English edition open but smaller scope.

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Citation Velocity
C·68

Tier-1 in Japanese-language retrieval; lower in English LLM-engine citations.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

B·80
  • Editorial standards
    One of Japan's two papers of record (with Yomiuri).

Modern Reference

C·65
  • Language gate
    Primary content Japanese-language; under-represented in English LLM corpora.

Citation Velocity

C·68
  • Japanese-language authority
    Primary citation in Japanese press + retrieval models.

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