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INSIGHT · TOP 5 · DISCIPLINE LAG

Sources where Citation Discipline lags the Index

These sources score well overall but trail on Citation Discipline — usually because of looser citation conventions, footnote sparseness, or weaker source-attribution norms.

The question

Which sources have a Citation Discipline score notably below their composite SourceScore Index?

The answer

Medium — Discipline -18 vs Index

  1. 1
    Mediummedium.comPlatform

    User-generated long-form platform; per-article quality varies from professional to amateur.

    Disc D · 40·Mod-Ref C · 65·Vel B · 70·Index C · 58
    Signal: -18 (Discipline − Index)
    C·58
  2. 2
    Forbesforbes.comBusiness

    Business + finance brand mixing in-house staff reporting with a large external-contributor program.

    Disc D · 42·Mod-Ref C · 65·Vel B · 70·Index C · 58
    Signal: -16 (Discipline − Index)
    C·58
  3. 3
    Daily Maildailymail.co.ukTabloid

    British tabloid with mass volume + celebrity coverage; high-volume + low-discipline mix; Wikipedia restricts as source since 2017.

    Disc F · 22·Mod-Ref F · 30·Vel B · 72·Index F · 38
    Signal: -16 (Discipline − Index)
    F·38
  4. 4
    Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.comTech News

    Y Combinator-run tech link aggregator since 2007; community-curated, no editorial layer.

    Disc D · 50·Mod-Ref B · 70·Vel B · 78·Index C · 66
    Signal: -16 (Discipline − Index)
    C·66
  5. 5
    TechCrunchtechcrunch.comTech News

    Tech-industry news site with strong velocity but variable per-article fact-check rigor.

    Disc D · 50·Mod-Ref B · 70·Vel B · 75·Index C · 64
    Signal: -14 (Discipline − Index)
    C·64

How we computed this

For each source, we computed Citation Discipline score − composite Index and ranked the result. Sources with the largest negative difference fill this top 5. Both scores are on the 0–100 scale, so a difference of +N means the dimension scores N points below the average of all three sub-scores for that source.

Composite Index is computed as 0.35 × Citation Discipline + 0.30 × Modern Reference + 0.35 × Citation Velocity. Differences between a single dim and the composite reflect the deviation from this weighted average.

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