B-tier sources by Citation Velocity
The same 59 sources that hold composite SourceScore B (70–84) re-ranked by Citation Velocity only. Bloomberg News takes the top position at A · 92.
McKinsey Insights jumps 35 positions in the Velocity ranking vs the composite — punches above weight on Citation Velocity.
- 1A·92
Business + finance newsroom feeding the Bloomberg Terminal; broad data infrastructure + global beat coverage.
Velocity A · 92·Index B · 83 - 2A·86
British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.
Velocity A · 86·Index B · 84 - 3B·84
Developer collaboration platform; primary host for open-source code + CI workflows.
Velocity B · 84·Index B · 82 - 4B·82
UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.
Velocity B · 82·Index B · 82 - 5B·82
U.S. + EU political journalism site; daily coverage with strong source-network in Washington + Brussels.
Velocity B · 82·Index B · 78 - 6B·82
US tier-1 academic medical center; comprehensive patient-info + Health Library since 1921.
Velocity B · 82·Index B · 83 - 7B·80
U.S. news brand emphasizing 'smart brevity'; political + business + tech beat coverage since 2017.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 78 - 8B·80
U.S. literary + commentary magazine since 1857; long-form essays + investigative journalism.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 81 - 9B·80
U.S. weekly magazine since 1925; long-form journalism + cultural criticism + named-author byline tradition.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 82 - 10B·80
Sunday long-form companion to NYT; investigative + cultural features with named-author byline.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 83 - 11B·80
Bloomberg's business magazine since 1929; long-form business + finance journalism.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 81 - 12B·80
U.S. policy research think tank; centrist credibility + public-policy research since 1916.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 83 - 13B·80
Bi-weekly UK literary + cultural review since 1979; named-byline tradition + long-form essays.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 83 - 14B·80
U.S. literary + intellectual review since 1963; named-byline tradition + long-form essays.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 83 - 15B·80
Academic journal database since 1995; primary archive for humanities + social-science research.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 82 - 16B·80
McKinsey & Company's research arm; widely cited in business press despite client-conflict caveats.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 75 - 17B·80
Long-form science, exploration, photojournalism since 1888; National Geographic Society heritage.
Velocity B · 80·Index B · 79 - 18B·78
British weekly known for explanatory rigor on economics + politics; named-author byline absent by editorial policy.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 78 - 19B·78
Health + biotech newsroom; founded 2015; specialist medical journalism with editorial discipline.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 82 - 20B·78
Qatari international news network; English edition since 2006; Middle East + global beat coverage.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 78 - 21B·78
Nonprofit health policy + journalism org; primary-source health-policy data + KFF Health News.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 84 - 22B·78
Q&A platform for software engineers since 2008; community-voted answers with content moderation.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 74 - 23B·78
U.S. foreign-policy think tank; publishes Foreign Affairs + research on international issues since 1921.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 82 - 24B·78
Ben Thompson's tech-strategy analysis newsletter since 2013; widely cited despite single-author format.
Velocity B · 78·Index B · 73 - 25B·76
U.S. nonprofit public-radio newsroom; broad daily news coverage with editorial guidelines + ombudsman model.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 80 - 26B·76
Bimonthly international-relations magazine published by Council on Foreign Relations since 1922.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 83 - 27B·76
Magazine of MIT covering technology + emerging-tech analysis; named-author byline + editorial standards.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 81 - 28B·76
Nonprofit policy research org; defense + health + education research since 1948.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 83 - 29B·76Harvard Business Reviewhbr.org
Business management + leadership magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing since 1922.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 80 - 30B·76
Subscription-only tech business news brand; investigative reporting on private companies + tech industry.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 78 - 31B·76
AI research lab publishing technical papers + GPT model documentation + safety research.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 80 - 32B·76
AI research lab; flagship publications across reinforcement learning + biology + games + foundation models.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 83 - 33B·76
Germany's tier-1 weekly + daily, with English edition Spiegel International open-access.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 78 - 34B·76
Hong Kong-based English-language paper since 1903; primary tier-1 source for China + HK news in English.
Velocity B · 76·Index B · 75 - 35B·75
France's paper of record since 1944, with English edition (lemonde.fr/en/) widely cited.
Velocity B · 75·Index B · 77 - 36B·75
UK paper of record since 1785, hard-paywalled, owned by News UK (News Corp).
Velocity B · 75·Index B · 74 - 37B·75
BMJ's clinical-decision-support tool; evidence-based, continuously-updated clinical guidance.
Velocity B · 75·Index B · 79 - 38B·75
Boston Consulting Group's publications; strategy-research authority since 1963.
Velocity B · 75·Index B · 73 - 39B·75
Smithsonian Institution's magazine since 1970; long-form science, history, culture.
Velocity B · 75·Index B · 78 - 40B·72
AI-powered academic search engine by Allen Institute for AI; ~200M+ papers indexed.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 83 - 41B·72
Open-access peer-reviewed life-sciences journal; transparent peer-review (reviewer notes published).
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 83 - 42B·72
Academic-journalism collaboration; articles authored by academics + edited by journalists; CC-BY-ND.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 82 - 43B·72
AI safety research lab publishing technical papers + safety research + Claude model documentation.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 82 - 44B·72
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; flagship academic CS research lab.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 82 - 45B·72
Spain's tier-1 daily since 1976, with strong Latin American reach via elpais.com Americas editions.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 74 - 46B·72
Canada's national statistical agency, founded 1971; primary source for Canadian economic + demographic data.
Velocity B · 72·Index B · 82 - 47B·70
Long-form technical journalism since 1998; deep-dive tech reporting + named-author byline accountability.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 76 - 48B·70
Tech + culture magazine since 1993; long-form tech reporting + named contributor bylines.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 76 - 49B·70
Independent journalism collective focused on tech + internet investigations; founded 2023.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 78 - 50B·70
Open-access multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Public Library of Science.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 78 - 51B·70
Global news brand founded 2022; structured 'Semaform' format separating reporting + analysis.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 76 - 52B·70
BBC's research division publishing peer-reviewed-style technical papers + open-source projects.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 78 - 53B·70
Zillow's research arm publishing primary-source housing market data + research.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 73 - 54B·70
Axios's professional-tier specialist newsletters covering deals + policy + niches.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 76 - 55B·70
AI/ML model + dataset hub; open-source community for transformers + ML research.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 81 - 56B·70
Online magazine for long-form essays on philosophy, science, society; CC-BY-ND licensed.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 78 - 57B·70
Linux + open-source technical journalism since 1998; deep technical depth + named-author bylines.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 78 - 58B·70
Canada's national paper since 1844, broadsheet of record for business + politics.
Velocity B · 70·Index B · 74 - 59C·68Asahi Shimbunasahi.com
Japan's tier-1 daily since 1879; English edition asahi.com/ajw partial open access.
Velocity C · 68·Index B · 71
Why this ranking is different
The composite SourceScore Index averages all three sub-scores — Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, and Citation Velocity. This page surfaces the SAME composite-B sources but ranks ONLY by Citation Velocity. Sources can hold the same composite grade with very different sub-score profiles — this view reveals the ranking that emerges when one dimension is the only signal.
Use this view when citation velocity is the decision-relevant signal for your citation. The composite Index is the safer default; this dim-faceted view is the precision lens.