MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
U.S. Food and Drug Administration vs World Health Organization — 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 World Health Organization on Modern Citation Reference by 4 points (A · 92 vs A · 88).
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.
Government
World Health Organization
who.int
A·88
Rank #33 of 130 on Modern Reference
Free public data + APIs + multi-language coverage (6 official UN languages).
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationA·92
Modern Reference · 92/100
OpenFDA APIs + structured data + bulk downloads; broad LLM corpus.
World Health OrganizationA·88
Modern Reference · 88/100
Free public data + APIs + multi-language coverage (6 official UN languages).
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- OpenFDA APIFree public APIs for adverse events, recalls, drug labels.
World Health Organization
- WHO open dataFree public APIs across health-data series.
Other dimensions for U.S. Food and Drug Administration vs World Health Organization
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