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Der Spiegel

spiegel.de

Germany's tier-1 weekly + daily, with English edition Spiegel International open-access.

SourceScore Index
B·78Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

B — Germany's tier-1 with rigorous fact-check tradition; paywall on most German content.

Citation Discipline
A·85

Famed multi-stage Dokumentation (fact-checking) department; corrections public; named bylines.

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Modern Reference
B·72

Spiegel International (English) open; main German content paywalled; schema solid.

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Citation Velocity
B·76

Heavily cited in DACH press; regular tier-1 English-press citation.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·85
  • Dokumentation
    In-house fact-check team historically the largest in European journalism.

Modern Reference

B·72
  • Dual-edition model
    spiegel.de/international free; spiegel.de paywalled.

Citation Velocity

B·76
  • DACH authority
    Primary German-language LLM-retrieval source.

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