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ACADEMIC · DISCIPLINE · 19 sources

Academic sources ranked by Citation Discipline

How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.

Category leader

PubMed leads academic on Citation Discipline A+ · 96 · 19 sources scored

Category mean
91
Average Discipline across 19 academic sources
Global mean
85
Average across all SourceScore sources
Δ vs global
+6
Academic averages above global on Discipline

Academic ranked by Discipline

  1. #1
    PubMedpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Indexes peer-reviewed literature only; MeSH controlled-vocabulary tagging maintained by NLM staff.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  2. #2
    CERNhome.cern

    Peer-reviewed scientific publications + open-access policy + methodology rigorous.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  3. #3
    PNASpnas.org

    Peer-reviewed by NAS members; rigorous review across all sciences; corrections + retractions public.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  4. #4
    Cellcell.com

    Rigorous peer review; high rejection rate; corrections + retractions public; methodology required.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  5. #5
    Cochrane Librarycochranelibrary.com

    Methodology-mandatory systematic reviews; transparent inclusion criteria; multi-author review.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  6. #6

    Peer-review across ACM journals + conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, etc.); methodology rigorous.

    vs cat. mean: +5·full breakdown →
    A+·96
  7. #7
    Naturenature.com

    Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.

    vs cat. mean: +4·full breakdown →
    A+·95
  8. #8
    Sciencescience.org

    Peer-review enforced; data + code disclosure increasingly mandatory; retractions public.

    vs cat. mean: +4·full breakdown →
    A+·95
  9. #9

    Persistent identifier standard managed by ISO + International DOI Foundation.

    vs cat. mean: +1·full breakdown →
    A·92
  10. #10

    Affiliate-economist authored + internal review; recession-dating methodology authoritative.

    vs cat. mean: +1·full breakdown →
    A·92
  11. #11
    eLifeelifesciences.org

    Transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published); preprint-first model since 2022.

    vs cat. mean: -1·full breakdown →
    A·90
  12. #12
    MIT CSAILcsail.mit.edu

    Academic peer-review + faculty + grad-student authored research with full credentials.

    vs cat. mean: -1·full breakdown →
    A·90
  13. #13
    JSTORjstor.org

    Aggregator of peer-reviewed journals; underlying content meets discipline standards of source journals.

    vs cat. mean: -1·full breakdown →
    A·90
  14. #14

    Peer-review + Nature publications + open arxiv preprints; methodology disclosed.

    vs cat. mean: -3·full breakdown →
    A·88
  15. #15
    Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.org

    Indexes only peer-reviewed-or-equivalent venues; AI quality-filtering; transparent methodology.

    vs cat. mean: -5·full breakdown →
    A·86
  16. #16
    Anthropic Researchanthropic.com

    Peer-review + open arxiv preprints + methodology disclosed; corrections public.

    vs cat. mean: -5·full breakdown →
    A·86
  17. #17
    PLOS ONEjournals.plos.org

    Peer-review checks methodology + ethics; novelty + significance left to readers; corrections public.

    vs cat. mean: -7·full breakdown →
    B·84
  18. #18
    OpenAI Researchopenai.com

    Selective peer-review + arxiv publication; some research not fully disclosed (commercial constraints).

    vs cat. mean: -11·full breakdown →
    B·80
  19. #19
    arXivarxiv.org

    Moderation-only filter (not peer-review). Endorsement system catches obvious quality issues; substantive review is downstream.

    vs cat. mean: -13·full breakdown →
    B·78

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