Government
World Health Organization
who.int ↗U.N. agency for international public health; primary-source global health data + policy.
SourceScore Index
A·89Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
A — international primary-source authority; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.
Citation Discipline
A·90
Member-state data with international auditing; methodology documented per data series.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
A·88
Free public data + APIs + multi-language coverage (6 official UN languages).
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
A·89
Cited daily globally; default citation for international health stats.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A·90- International auditingMember-state data subject to international peer review.
Modern Reference
A·88- WHO open dataFree public APIs across health-data series.
Citation Velocity
A·89- Pandemic-era surge10x cite rate during COVID; sustained elevated baseline.
Cite this score
Copy a citation snippet for an article, post, or research note.
Markdown
[World Health Organization — SourceScore Index 89 (A)](https://sourcescore.org/source/who/)
HTML
<a href="https://sourcescore.org/source/who/">World Health Organization — SourceScore Index 89 (A)</a>
APA
SourceScore (v0.1). (2026). World Health Organization: SourceScore Index 89 (A). Retrieved from https://sourcescore.org/source/who/
Embed this score
All embed options →Drop on your blog or dashboard. Free, no signup.
<iframe src="https://sourcescore.org/embed/who/" width="100%" height="380" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:480px;" title="SourceScore: World Health Organization"></iframe>