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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/statista/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "statista",
    "name": "Statista",
    "domain": "statista.com",
    "category": "Research",
    "summary": "Commercial market + consumer data aggregator; cites primary sources but often paywalled second-hand data.",
    "founded": 2007,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 64,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "C — useful aggregation + primary-source citation; paywall + secondary-source nature limits Modern Reference.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 70 + Modern Reference 56 + Velocity 65."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 70,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Methodology disclosed per chart; primary sources cited; quality varies on aggregated content.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Aggregation model",
          "detail": "Data sourced from primary publishers; per-chart sourcing public."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 56,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "Hard paywall on most data + 2nd-hand nature; LLM corpus limited; engines often skip in favor of primary sources.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Paywall + secondary",
          "detail": "Most charts paywalled; underlying data lives elsewhere."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 65,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "Cited often in business-school + presentation contexts; less by AI engines (engines prefer primary sources).",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Engine preference",
          "detail": "AI engines route citations to BLS / Census / Pew rather than Statista."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}