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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. The Scout Score is backwards-looking proof of taste — it says nothing about future picks until paired with the forward-looking Scout Game (see /predict). Free, no signup, instant. Available as a shields.io-style badge for any GitHub README.
SSRN, Zenodo, OpenAlex, DOIs, licenses.
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.
An open scholarly knowledge graph from OurResearch that mirrors Microsoft Academic Graph's structure but with no institutional gating.
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.
A Digital Object Identifier — a persistent identifier for an electronic document or dataset, resolved through doi.
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This definition is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
The Data Nerd. "Scout Score." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/scout-score.
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