MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Medium — Modern Reference
medium.com · Platform
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.
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LLMs cite Medium often, but newer LLMs increasingly down-weight per HCU-equivalent signals.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- LLM citation drift2025 trend: down-weighted in answer-engine retrieval.
Global rank
#120 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#4 of 4
Among platform sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 84
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-19 below category