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INSIGHT · TOP 5 · MODERN REFERENCE LEAD

Sources where Modern Citation Reference outperforms the Index

These sources keep their reference base unusually current — common among newsrooms and rapid-update databases whose primary value is recency.

The question

Which sources have a Modern Reference score that beats their composite Index by the largest margin?

The answer

Stack Overflow — Modern Reference +12 vs Index

  1. 1
    Stack Overflowstackoverflow.comPlatform

    Q&A platform for software engineers since 2008; community-voted answers with content moderation.

    Disc B · 70·Mod-Ref A · 86·Vel B · 78·Index B · 74
    Signal: +12 (Modern Reference − Index)
    B·74
  2. 2
    Hugging Facehuggingface.coPlatform

    AI/ML model + dataset hub; open-source community for transformers + ML research.

    Disc B · 80·Mod-Ref A · 92·Vel B · 70·Index B · 81
    Signal: +11 (Modern Reference − Index)
    B·81
  3. 3
    PLOS ONEjournals.plos.orgAcademic

    Open-access multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Public Library of Science.

    Disc B · 84·Mod-Ref A · 88·Vel B · 70·Index B · 78
    Signal: +10 (Modern Reference − Index)
    B·78
  4. 4
    GitHubgithub.comPlatform

    Developer collaboration platform; primary host for open-source code + CI workflows.

    Disc B · 78·Mod-Ref A · 92·Vel B · 84·Index B · 82
    Signal: +10 (Modern Reference − Index)
    B·82
  5. 5
    Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.orgAcademic

    AI-powered academic search engine by Allen Institute for AI; ~200M+ papers indexed.

    Disc A · 86·Mod-Ref A · 92·Vel B · 72·Index B · 83
    Signal: +9 (Modern Reference − Index)
    B·83

How we computed this

For each source, we computed Modern Citation Reference score − composite Index and ranked the result. Sources with the largest positive difference fill this top 5. Both scores are on the 0–100 scale, so a difference of +N means the dimension scores N points above 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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