Magazine sources ranked by Citation Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
Foreign Affairs leads magazine on Citation Discipline — A · 92 · 12 sources scored
Magazine ranked by Discipline
- #1A·92Foreign Affairsforeignaffairs.com
Editor-supervised; named authors (typically academics or practitioners); fact-check process.
- #2A·90Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Editor-supervised + named bylines + scientific advisor review; corrections public.
- #3A·90The New York Times Magazinenytimes.com/section/magazine
NYT fact-check + corrections + named bylines; multi-source verification.
- #4A·90London Review of Bookslrb.co.uk
Editor-supervised + fact-check + named scholarly bylines + corrections public.
- #5A·90The New York Review of Booksnybooks.com
Editor-supervised + fact-check + named scholarly bylines + corrections public.
- #6A·90The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Famous fact-check department; multiple-source verification + author byline + corrections public.
- #7A·86The Atlantictheatlantic.com
Editor-supervised + named bylines + fact-check + corrections public; literary + investigative quality.
- #8A·86Bloomberg Businessweekbloomberg.com/businessweek
Bloomberg editorial standards; multi-source verification + corrections + investigative depth.
- #9A·86Harvard Business Reviewhbr.org
Editor-reviewed by HBP staff + named academic + practitioner authors; corrections public.
- #10B·84Aeonaeon.co
Editor-supervised + named-author bylines + corrections public.
- #11B·82National Geographicnationalgeographic.com
Long fact-checking tradition; named bylines; sources cited; institutional editorial standards.
- #12B·80Smithsonian Magazinesmithsonianmag.com
Fact-checked editorial; named bylines; sources cited inline; Smithsonian institutional standards.