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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/who/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "who",
    "name": "World Health Organization",
    "domain": "who.int",
    "category": "Government",
    "summary": "U.N. agency for international public health; primary-source global health data + policy.",
    "founded": 1948,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
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  "scores": {
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      "value": 89,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "A — international primary-source authority; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 90 + Modern Reference 88 + Velocity 89."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 90,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Member-state data with international auditing; methodology documented per data series.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "International auditing",
          "detail": "Member-state data subject to international peer review."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Free public data + APIs + multi-language coverage (6 official UN languages).",
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        {
          "label": "WHO open data",
          "detail": "Free public APIs across health-data series."
        }
      ]
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      "value": 89,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Cited daily globally; default citation for international health stats.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Pandemic-era surge",
          "detail": "10x cite rate during COVID; sustained elevated baseline."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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