SourceScore
INSIGHT · TOP 5 · BALANCED

The most balanced sources across all three dimensions

These sources score evenly on Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, and Citation Velocity — no weak link, no outlier strength. The most predictable citation candidates.

The question

Which sources have the tightest spread between their three sub-scores?

The answer

Axios — spread of 0 points across dimensions

  1. 1
    Axiosaxios.comNews

    U.S. news brand emphasizing 'smart brevity'; political + business + tech beat coverage since 2017.

    Disc B · 80·Mod-Ref B · 80·Vel B · 80·Index B · 78
    Signal: spread 0 (80/80/80)
    B·78
  2. 2
    U.S. National Institutes of Healthnih.govGovernment

    U.S. federal medical research agency operating PubMed, NCBI, MedlinePlus, and trial registries.

    Disc A+ · 95·Mod-Ref A · 94·Vel A+ · 96·Index A+ · 95
    Signal: spread 2 (95/94/96)
    A+·95
  3. 3
    The Guardiantheguardian.comNews

    British newspaper with open-web-first publishing model; no paywall, broad LLM corpus inclusion.

    Disc A · 85·Mod-Ref A · 86·Vel B · 84·Index A · 85
    Signal: spread 2 (85/86/84)
    A·85
  4. 4
    U.S. Census Bureaucensus.govGovernment

    Federal statistical agency for U.S. demographic + economic data; primary-source decennial census + ACS surveys.

    Disc A+ · 95·Mod-Ref A · 94·Vel A · 93·Index A · 94
    Signal: spread 2 (95/94/93)
    A·94
  5. 5
    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsbls.govGovernment

    Federal statistical agency for U.S. labor + price data; CPI, employment, unemployment, productivity.

    Disc A+ · 95·Mod-Ref A · 93·Vel A · 94·Index A · 94
    Signal: spread 2 (95/93/94)
    A·94

How we computed this

For each source, we computed max(disc, mod-ref, vel) − min(disc, mod-ref, vel) and ranked by smallest spread. A spread of 0 means all three sub-scores are equal; a spread of N means the highest sub-score is that many points above the lowest.

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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