Forbes vs The Economist — Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
The Economist outscores Forbes on Citation Discipline by 29 points (B · 71 vs D · 42).
Forbes
Staff articles strong; contributor articles often single-sourced or thinly edited; mixed quality undercuts domain-level rating.
The Economist
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
Global rank · Discipline
Why these Discipline scores
Staff articles strong; contributor articles often single-sourced or thinly edited; mixed quality undercuts domain-level rating.
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
Signals behind the Discipline score
- Contributor programExternal writers with limited editorial review on per-piece basis.
- House styleArticles attributed to 'The Economist' rather than named authors.
- Internal fact-checkEditorial review per piece, not externally verifiable.
Other dimensions for Forbes vs The Economist
Other Discipline comparisons
Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — Forbes (forbes.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — The Economist (economist.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/forbes-vs-the-economist/discipline.json