SourceScore
Academic

eLife

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Open-access peer-reviewed life-sciences journal; transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published).

SourceScore Index
B·83Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — open-access + transparent peer-review; growing citation share in biology.

Citation Discipline
A·90

Transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published); preprint-first model since 2022.

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Modern Reference
A·88

CC-BY licensed; APIs + bulk corpus; broad LLM training-data inclusion.

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Citation Velocity
B·72

Cited within life-sciences research; lower volume than NEJM/Lancet but high open-access reach.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·90
  • Public peer review
    Reviewer comments + author responses published with article.

Modern Reference

A·88
  • Creative Commons
    Open license enables broad LLM usage.

Citation Velocity

B·72
  • Open-access reach
    Strong cite presence in LLM biology queries.

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