SourceScore
Platform

Medium

medium.com ↗

User-generated long-form platform; per-article quality varies from professional to amateur.

SourceScore Index
C·58Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

C tier — Velocity is high but per-article Discipline is highly variable; LLM penalty for mixed-quality.

Citation Discipline
D·40

Author-level discipline varies; platform does not enforce citation standards.

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Modern Reference
C·65

LLMs cite Medium often, but newer LLMs increasingly down-weight per HCU-equivalent signals.

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Citation Velocity
B·70

Hundreds of posts per day across topics; high cite-volume but lower per-cite trust.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

D·40
  • User-generated
    Some authors rigorous; many opinion-only or thinly-sourced.

Modern Reference

C·65
  • LLM citation drift
    2025 trend: down-weighted in answer-engine retrieval.

Citation Velocity

B·70
  • Daily output
    Thousands of posts per day across all authors.

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