The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com ↗U.S. literary + intellectual review since 1963; named-byline tradition + long-form essays.
A — premier US long-form review; specialist intellectual-essay citation.
Editor-supervised + fact-check + named scholarly bylines + corrections public.
About this sub-score →Metered paywall; LLM corpus partial; long-form widely-cited.
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Citation Discipline
A·90- Editorial traditionLong-standing intellectual-review standards.
Modern Reference
B·78- Subscription gateMost articles paywalled with metered free access.
Citation Velocity
B·80- Intellectual-review defaultDefault for US long-form intellectual essays.
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