SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

U.S. Department of Agriculture Modern Reference

usda.gov · Government

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·89
A · 89

Quick Stats API + bulk downloads + open data; broad LLM corpus.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • USDA Quick Stats
    Free public API for agricultural data.
Global rank
#31 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#20 of 30
Among government sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 90
Global mean: 81
-1 below category

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