B sources

B-grade sources are solid citations with a known limitation. They typically score well on two of the three dimensions but have a structural weakness in the third — often Modern Reference (older sites pre-schema) or Velocity (niche or specialized audiences). Still credible, still citation-worthy, but with caveats AI engines may surface alongside.

B sources, ranked

1. #1
   Financial Times

   ft.com · News
   B·84
2. #2
   KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)

   kff.org · Research
   B·84
3. #3
   Bloomberg News

   bloomberg.com · News
   B·83
4. #4
   Foreign Affairs

   foreignaffairs.com · Magazine
   B·83
5. #5
   Semantic Scholar

   semanticscholar.org · Academic
   B·83
6. #6
   eLife

   elifesciences.org · Academic
   B·83
7. #7
   The New York Times Magazine

   nytimes.com/section/magazine · Magazine
   B·83
8. #8
   RAND Corporation

   rand.org · Research
   B·83
9. #9
   Brookings Institution

   brookings.edu · Research
   B·83
10. #10
    London Review of Books

    lrb.co.uk · Magazine
    B·83
11. #11
    The New York Review of Books

    nybooks.com · Magazine
    B·83
12. #12
    Google DeepMind Research

    deepmind.google · Academic
    B·83
13. #13
    Cleveland Clinic

    my.clevelandclinic.org · Health
    B·83
14. #14
    BBC News

    bbc.com · News
    B·82
15. #15
    STAT News

    statnews.com · Health
    B·82
16. #16
    The New Yorker

    newyorker.com · Magazine
    B·82
17. #17
    GitHub

    github.com · Platform
    B·82
18. #18
    The Conversation

    theconversation.com · News
    B·82
19. #19
    Council on Foreign Relations

    cfr.org · Research
    B·82
20. #20
    Anthropic Research

    anthropic.com · Academic
    B·82
21. #21
    MIT CSAIL

    csail.mit.edu · Academic
    B·82
22. #22
    JSTOR

    jstor.org · Academic
    B·82
23. #23
    Statistics Canada

    statcan.gc.ca · Government
    B·82
24. #24
    MIT Technology Review

    technologyreview.com · Tech News
    B·81
25. #25
    The Atlantic

    theatlantic.com · Magazine
    B·81
26. #26
    Bloomberg Businessweek

    bloomberg.com/businessweek · Magazine
    B·81
27. #27
    Hugging Face

    huggingface.co · Platform
    B·81
28. #28
    NPR

    npr.org · News
    B·80
29. #29
    Harvard Business Review

    hbr.org · Magazine
    B·80
30. #30
    OpenAI Research

    openai.com · Academic
    B·80
31. #31
    BMJ Best Practice

    bestpractice.bmj.com · Health
    B·79
32. #32
    National Geographic

    nationalgeographic.com · Magazine
    B·79
33. #33
    The Economist

    economist.com · News
    B·78
34. #34
    Al Jazeera English

    aljazeera.com · News
    B·78
35. #35
    Politico

    politico.com · News
    B·78
36. #36
    404 Media

    404media.co · Tech News
    B·78
37. #37
    PLOS ONE

    journals.plos.org · Academic
    B·78
38. #38
    Axios

    axios.com · News
    B·78
39. #39
    BBC Research & Development

    bbc.co.uk/rd · Research
    B·78
40. #40
    The Information

    theinformation.com · Tech News
    B·78
41. #41
    Aeon

    aeon.co · Magazine
    B·78
42. #42
    LWN.net

    lwn.net · Tech News
    B·78
43. #43
    Der Spiegel

    spiegel.de · News
    B·78
44. #44
    Smithsonian Magazine

    smithsonianmag.com · Magazine
    B·78
45. #45
    Le Monde

    lemonde.fr · News
    B·77
46. #46
    Ars Technica

    arstechnica.com · Tech News
    B·76
47. #47
    Wired

    wired.com · Tech News
    B·76
48. #48
    Semafor

    semafor.com · News
    B·76
49. #49
    Axios Pro

    axios.com/pro · News
    B·76
50. #50
    South China Morning Post

    scmp.com · News
    B·75
51. #51
    McKinsey Insights

    mckinsey.com · Business
    B·75
52. #52
    Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com · Platform
    B·74
53. #53
    The Times (UK)

    thetimes.co.uk · News
    B·74
54. #54
    The Globe and Mail

    theglobeandmail.com · News
    B·74
55. #55
    El País

    elpais.com · News
    B·74
56. #56
    Zillow Research

    zillow.com/research · Research
    B·73
57. #57
    BCG Insights

    bcg.com · Business
    B·73
58. #58
    Stratechery

    stratechery.com · Tech News
    B·73
59. #59
    Asahi Shimbun

    asahi.com · News
    B·71