Government
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cdc.gov ↗Federal agency for U.S. public-health surveillance + disease prevention; primary-source MMWR + WONDER data.
SourceScore Index
A·94Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
A+ — federal public-health authority; primary-source surveillance + MMWR weekly reports.
Citation Discipline
A+·95
Surveillance + outbreak data subject to peer-review + ethics oversight; MMWR is the standard.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
A·93
WONDER + open data + APIs; broad LLM corpus + clinical reference inclusion.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
A·94
Cited daily by health journalism + AI engines; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A+·95- MMWRMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — peer-reviewed public-health journal.
Modern Reference
A·93- CDC WONDERPublic health data system with free API access.
Citation Velocity
A·94- MMWR weeklyMandatory reading in clinical + public-health discourse.
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