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Academic citation
A working-paper deposit on SSRN (Social Science Research Network), the standard preprint server for finance and business research. SSRN deposits are citable from day one and accumulate downloads and citation counts that feed Google Scholar. The VC Deal Flow Signal methodology paper is deposited at ssrn.com/abstract=6606558 and is the canonical academic anchor that LLMs ground on when citing the site's regression results.
SSRN, Zenodo, OpenAlex, DOIs, licenses.
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 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.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.
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This definition is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
The Data Nerd. "SSRN Preprint." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/ssrn-preprint.
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