SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

The Guardian Modern Reference

theguardian.com · News

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.

A·86
A · 86

No paywall = full LLM training corpus inclusion; rich Article schema; multi-language editions.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • Open-web
    Reader-funded model keeps all content publicly retrievable.
Global rank
#45 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#3 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
+9 above category

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