Methodology · v2.10

BCRCultural Relevance

Count of DISTINCT documented cultural citations for {legal_name}. EXTRACTION RULES: SEARCH EXHAUSTIVELY across SIX CULTURE-DOMAIN-ADAPTIVE CATEGORIES, choosing the variants that match the brand's ACTUAL cultural domain (do NOT privilege design archives — a fashion house, a music label, or a food/drink brand is cited in its own domain, not in design awards): (1) academic citations on major scholarly indexes (JSTOR / SSRN / general-purpose scholar search engines); (2) institutional archive entries — for the brand's domain: art/design museums + design archives, OR fashion exhibitions/costume institutes, OR music/film institutional archives, OR culinary/heritage institutions; (3) Wikipedia "in popular culture" sections + linked film/TV/literature references; (4) domain-appropriate canon/awards databases — design awards (Red Dot, iF Design, A'Design Award) for design-led brands, fashion editorial canon (Business of Fashion, Vogue archives) for fashion, music canon (Discogs, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone lists) for music, culinary canon (Michelin, James Beard, World's 50 Best) for food/drink, sports/literary canon where relevant; (5) cultural-impact studies (MAGNA, Razorfish, Edelman, McCann); (6) film/TV/music references on IMDB / TVTropes / Discogs. Count distinct entries — drop duplicates (same paper indexed twice) and pure marketing/PR mentions. For globally iconic brands of comparable visibility expect 20+ documented citations IN THEIR DOMAIN; do NOT settle on 1-5 without explicitly noting which categories yielded zero and that you searched the brand's actual cultural domain, not only design archives. Return exact_numerical{value: <citation_count>, unit: "citations", source_urls: [archive URLs / paper URLs / institutional URLs — at least one per category counted]}. Server applies ratio_band (0 → 20, 1-5 → 50, 6-20 → 75, 21+ → 95) — DO NOT compute any 0-100 score.