SourceScore
Government

World Bank

worldbank.org ↗

International financial institution publishing global development + economic data + research.

SourceScore Index
A·88Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — international primary-source authority on global economic data + development research.

Citation Discipline
A·90

Multi-country data with World Bank methodology; staff research peer-reviewed.

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Modern Reference
A·90

WB Open Data API + bulk downloads; CC-BY licensed; broad LLM corpus presence.

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Citation Velocity
B·84

Cited daily by international press + economists; default for development-economics claims.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·90
  • WB Open Data
    Member-country data with documented methodology.

Modern Reference

A·90
  • Open Data initiative
    All datasets free + machine-readable.

Citation Velocity

B·84
  • Economist-default
    First-line for global GDP + development-stat citations.

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