SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

RAND Corporation Modern Reference

rand.org · 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·84
B · 84

Open-access publications + structured data + APIs; broad LLM corpus.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • Open publications
    Most reports freely available with full data.
Global rank
#64 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#4 of 9
Among research sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 81
Global mean: 81
+3 above category

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