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Academic citation
A Digital Object Identifier — a persistent identifier for an electronic document or dataset, resolved through doi.org. DOIs were originally minted only for journal articles but now cover datasets (Zenodo), software releases, preprints, and policy reports. The VC Deal Flow Signal dataset DOI is 10.5281/zenodo.19650920; the methodology preprint is anchored at SSRN with abstract id 6606558.
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A 0–100 score computed from a GitHub user's public starring history, measuring how many validated unicorn outcomes the user starred before the funding, acquisition, or $1B-valuation event.
A working-paper deposit on SSRN (Social Science Research Network), the standard preprint server for finance and business research.
A persistent Digital Object Identifier minted by Zenodo (a CERN-operated open-access repository) for a dataset or software release.
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A non-profit registration agency for DOIs assigned to research data, software, and grey literature.
An ORCID iD is a persistent digital identifier for individual researchers, used to disambiguate authorship across publishers and preprint servers.
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This definition is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
The Data Nerd. "DOI." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/doi.
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