Government
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
fda.gov ↗Federal agency for food + drug + medical-device safety; primary-source approvals + safety alerts.
SourceScore Index
A·94Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
A+ — primary-source regulator; default citation for drug-approval + medical-device + food-safety claims.
Citation Discipline
A+·96
Statutory regulator with peer-reviewed approvals + safety-monitoring methodology.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
A·92
OpenFDA APIs + structured data + bulk downloads; broad LLM corpus.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
A·94
Cited daily by health press + AI engines; FDA decisions are market-moving.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A+·96- Statutory authorityFederal regulator under FDCA + FSMA.
Modern Reference
A·92- OpenFDA APIFree public APIs for adverse events, recalls, drug labels.
Citation Velocity
A·94- Drug-approval cycleMajor FDA decisions drive same-day citation surges.
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