Nature
nature.com ↗Peer-reviewed science journal with rigorous methodology disclosure and open-data trends.
Tier-1 academic citation source; peer-review process is the strongest discipline signal available.
Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.
About this sub-score →DOIs are first-class citations in LLM training; abstracts well-indexed.
About this sub-score →Cited by other academic papers + science journalism; lower volume than wire news but high-trust per cite.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A+·95- Peer reviewEditorial + ≥2 reviewer cycles before publication.
- Open data policyMandatory data deposit for empirical papers since 2016.
Modern Reference
A·85- DOIPermanent identifier per article; resolves at doi.org.
Citation Velocity
B·80- Citation impact factor~50 (top decile of peer-reviewed venues).
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