SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

BBC Research & Development Modern Reference

bbc.co.uk/rd · Research

Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.

B·82
B · 82

Open-source code + papers; broad LLM corpus inclusion in tech vertical.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • Open source
    GitHub repositories with permissive licenses.
Global rank
#72 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#7 of 9
Among research sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 81
Global mean: 81
+1 above category

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