Best peer-reviewed sources for citation rigor by Citation Discipline

Same 15 sources, re-sorted by Citation Discipline only — different signal than the composite Index. The leader changes: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission takes the top position at A+ · 98.

1. 1
   U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissionsec.gov

   Primary-source regulator publishing every public-company filing (13F, 10-K, 8-K, etc.) since 1934.

   Discipline A+ · 98·Index A+ · 96·Government
   A+·98
2. 2
   Wikipedia (English)en.wikipedia.org

   Crowd-edited encyclopedia with ~7M articles and per-article inline citation discipline.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 94·Reference
   A+·96
3. 3
   PubMedpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

   U.S. National Library of Medicine literature index covering ~36M biomedical citations.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 94·Academic
   A+·96
4. 4
   New England Journal of Medicinenejm.org

   Peer-reviewed general medical journal since 1812; one of the highest-impact medical venues globally.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 87·Health
   A+·96
5. 5
   U.S. Food and Drug Administrationfda.gov

   Federal agency for food + drug + medical-device safety; primary-source approvals + safety alerts.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 94·Government
   A+·96
6. 6
   Federal Reserve Systemfederalreserve.gov

   U.S. central bank; primary source for monetary policy + economic data + financial-system statistics.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A+ · 95·Government
   A+·96
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   CERNhome.cern

   European Organization for Nuclear Research; primary source for particle physics + experimental high-energy physics.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 92·Academic
   A+·96
8. 8
   Association for Computing Machinerydl.acm.org

   Premier U.S. computing society; ACM Digital Library indexes peer-reviewed CS publications.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 85·Academic
   A+·96
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   PNASpnas.org

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal since 1914.

   Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 92·Academic
   A+·96
10. 10
    Cellcell.com

    Top biology journal since 1974, published by Elsevier (Cell Press); the default citation in molecular biology.

    Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 89·Academic
    A+·96
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    Cochrane Librarycochranelibrary.com

    Gold-standard systematic-review database for medical evidence since 1993.

    Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 87·Academic
    A+·96
12. 12
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyplato.stanford.edu

    Peer-reviewed philosophy encyclopedia since 1995; gold-standard philosophy reference.

    Discipline A+ · 96·Index A · 89·Reference
    A+·96
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    Naturenature.com

    Peer-reviewed science journal with rigorous methodology disclosure and open-data trends.

    Discipline A+ · 95·Index A · 87·Academic
    A+·95
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    U.S. National Institutes of Healthnih.gov

    U.S. federal medical research agency operating PubMed, NCBI, MedlinePlus, and trial registries.

    Discipline A+ · 95·Index A+ · 95·Government
    A+·95
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    ProPublicapropublica.org

    Nonprofit investigative newsroom; data-heavy + methodology-published reporting since 2007.

    Discipline A+ · 95·Index A · 86·News
    A+·95