Academic sources ranked by Citation Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
PubMed leads academic on Citation Discipline — A+ · 96 · 19 sources scored
Academic ranked by Discipline
- #1A+·96PubMedpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Indexes peer-reviewed literature only; MeSH controlled-vocabulary tagging maintained by NLM staff.
- #2A+·96CERNhome.cern
Peer-reviewed scientific publications + open-access policy + methodology rigorous.
- #3A+·96PNASpnas.org
Peer-reviewed by NAS members; rigorous review across all sciences; corrections + retractions public.
- #4A+·96Cellcell.com
Rigorous peer review; high rejection rate; corrections + retractions public; methodology required.
- #5A+·96Cochrane Librarycochranelibrary.com
Methodology-mandatory systematic reviews; transparent inclusion criteria; multi-author review.
- #6A+·96Association for Computing Machinerydl.acm.org
Peer-review across ACM journals + conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, etc.); methodology rigorous.
- #7A+·95Naturenature.com
Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.
- #8A+·95Sciencescience.org
Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retractions public.
- #9A·92DOI (CrossRef Resolver)doi.org
Persistent identifier standard managed by ISO + International DOI Foundation.
- #10A·92
Affiliate-economist authored + internal review; recession-dating methodology authoritative.
- #11A·90eLifeelifesciences.org
Transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published); preprint-first model since 2022.
- #12A·90MIT CSAILcsail.mit.edu
Academic peer-review + faculty + grad-student authored research with full credentials.
- #13A·90JSTORjstor.org
Aggregator of peer-reviewed journals; underlying content meets discipline standards of source journals.
- #14A·88Google DeepMind Researchdeepmind.google
Peer-review + Nature publications + open arxiv preprints; methodology disclosed.
- #15A·86Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.org
Indexes only peer-reviewed-or-equivalent venues; AI quality-filtering; transparent methodology.
- #16A·86Anthropic Researchanthropic.com
Peer-review + open arxiv preprints + methodology disclosed; corrections public.
- #17B·84PLOS ONEjournals.plos.org
Peer-review checks methodology + ethics; novelty + significance left to readers; corrections public.
- #18B·80OpenAI Researchopenai.com
Selective peer-review + arxiv publication; some research not fully disclosed (commercial constraints).
- #19B·78arXivarxiv.org
Moderation-only filter (not peer-review). Endorsement system catches obvious quality issues; substantive review is downstream.