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.
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
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 databasesPublic databases for drugs + clinical trials + safety alerts.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- OpenFDA APIFree public APIs for adverse events, recalls, drug labels.
Other dimensions for European Medicines Agency vs U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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