SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

European Medicines Agency vs U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Modern Reference

How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.

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Verdict

U.S. Food and Drug Administration outscores European Medicines Agency on Modern Citation Reference by 3 points (A · 92 vs A · 89).

Government

European Medicines Agency

ema.europa.eu
A·89
Rank #30 of 130 on Modern Reference

Open data + structured documents; multi-language EU coverage.

Higher Modern Reference
Government

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

fda.gov
A·92
Rank #14 of 130 on Modern Reference

OpenFDA APIs + structured data + bulk downloads; broad LLM corpus.

Global rank · Modern Reference

SourceScoreGradeRankDetail
European Medicines Agency
ema.europa.eu
89A·89#30 / 130view →
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
fda.gov
92A·92#14 / 130view →

Why these Modern Reference scores

European Medicines AgencyA·89
Modern Reference · 89/100

Open data + structured documents; multi-language EU coverage.

U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationA·92
Modern Reference · 92/100

OpenFDA APIs + structured data + bulk downloads; broad LLM corpus.

Signals behind the Modern Reference score

European Medicines Agency
  • EMA databases
    Public databases for drugs + clinical trials + safety alerts.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • OpenFDA API
    Free public APIs for adverse events, recalls, drug labels.

Other dimensions for European Medicines Agency vs U.S. Food and Drug Administration

SourceScore Index
Composite head-to-head — U.S. Food and Drug Administration leads
Discipline
U.S. Food and Drug Administration +2 pts
Velocity
U.S. Food and Drug Administration +4 pts

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Sources & references

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