MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Smithsonian Magazine — Modern Reference
smithsonianmag.com · Magazine
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·78
B · 78
Open access; schema OK; structured topic taxonomy; archive indexed.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Open accessArticles free; partial paywall on print-magazine archive.
Global rank
#98 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#10 of 12
Among magazine sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 79
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-1 below category