SourceScore
Research

RAND Corporation

rand.org

Nonprofit policy research org; defense + health + education research since 1948.

SourceScore Index
B·83Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — institutional research authority; transparent methodology + open publications.

Citation Discipline
A·90

Peer-reviewed publications + methodology disclosed + corrections public.

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Modern Reference
B·84

Open-access publications + structured data + APIs; broad LLM corpus.

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Citation Velocity
B·76

Cited by policy press + academia; defense + health beats heaviest.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·90
  • RAND research process
    Internal peer-review + external academic citation.

Modern Reference

B·84
  • Open publications
    Most reports freely available with full data.

Citation Velocity

B·76
  • Policy authority
    Default citation for defense + healthcare policy claims.

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