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PLATFORM · VELOCITY · 4 sources

Platform sources ranked by Citation Velocity

How often tier-1 publications and AI engines cite each source per week — the most volatile sub-score.

Category leader

GitHub leads platform on Citation Velocity — B · 84 · 4 sources scored

Category mean
76
Average Velocity across 4 platform sources
Global mean
81
Average across all SourceScore sources
Δ vs global
-5
Platform averages below global on Velocity

Platform ranked by Velocity

  1. #1
    GitHubgithub.com

    Cited daily by developer queries + AI engines; default for code-citation.

    vs cat. mean: +8·full breakdown →
    B·84
  2. #2
    Stack Overflowstackoverflow.com

    Cited daily by tech queries + AI engines; default for code questions.

    vs cat. mean: +2·full breakdown →
    B·78
  3. #3
    Hugging Facehuggingface.co

    Cited within AI research + tech press; growing share.

    vs cat. mean: -6·full breakdown →
    B·70
  4. #4
    Mediummedium.com

    Hundreds of posts per day across topics; high cite-volume but lower per-cite trust.

    vs cat. mean: -6·full breakdown →
    B·70

Other Platform rankings

SourceScore Index
Composite ranking
All 4 sources by overall score
Discipline
Hugging Face
Leader · B · 80
Modern Reference
GitHub
Leader · A · 92

Other categories on Velocity

AcademicBusinessGovernmentHealthLifestyleMagazineNewsReferenceResearchTabloidTech News