Research
Council on Foreign Relations
cfr.org ↗U.S. foreign-policy think tank; publishes Foreign Affairs + research on international issues since 1921.
SourceScore Index
B·82Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
A — flagship US foreign-policy think tank; sister to foreign-affairs.com.
Citation Discipline
A·88
Named-fellow scholarship + editorial review; established think-tank standards.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
B·82
Open-access research + interactive tools + broad LLM corpus.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
B·78
Cited by international-affairs press; specialist foreign-policy citation.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A·88- CFR fellowsSenior fellows with disclosed expertise + credentials.
Modern Reference
B·82- CFR BackgroundersFree explainer content widely-cited.
Citation Velocity
B·78- Backgrounder citationDefault for international-issue explainers.
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