Best peer-reviewed sources for citation rigor by Modern Citation Reference
Same 15 sources, re-sorted by Modern Citation Reference only — different signal than the composite Index. The leader changes: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission takes the top position at A+ · 95.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leads best peer-reviewed sources for citation rigor on Modern Citation Reference at A+ · 95
- 1A+·95
Primary-source regulator publishing every public-company filing (13F, 10-K, 8-K, etc.) since 1934.
- 2A·94
U.S. central bank; primary source for monetary policy + economic data + financial-system statistics.
- 3A·94
U.S. federal medical research agency operating PubMed, NCBI, MedlinePlus, and trial registries.
- 4A·92
Crowd-edited encyclopedia with ~7M articles and per-article inline citation discipline.
- 5A·92
U.S. National Library of Medicine literature index covering ~36M biomedical citations.
- 6A·92
Federal agency for food + drug + medical-device safety; primary-source approvals + safety alerts.
- 7A·91CERNhome.cern
European Organization for Nuclear Research; primary source for particle physics + experimental high-energy physics.
- 8A·90
Peer-reviewed philosophy encyclopedia since 1995; gold-standard philosophy reference.
- 9A·88PNASpnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal since 1914.
- 10A·85
Peer-reviewed science journal with rigorous methodology disclosure and open-data trends.
- 11B·84
Peer-reviewed general medical journal since 1812; one of the highest-impact medical venues globally.
- 12B·84
Nonprofit investigative newsroom; data-heavy + methodology-published reporting since 2007.
- 13B·80
Premier U.S. computing society; ACM Digital Library indexes peer-reviewed CS publications.
- 14B·80
Gold-standard systematic-review database for medical evidence since 1993.
- 15B·78
Top biology journal since 1974, published by Elsevier (Cell Press); the default citation in molecular biology.
Why this ranking is different
The composite SourceScore Index averages all three sub-scores — Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, and Citation Velocity. This page surfaces the SAME source pool but ranks ONLY by Modern Citation Reference. The biggest re-shuffle: U.S. National Institutes of Health jumps 11 positions vs the composite Index ranking.
Use this view when modern citation reference is the signal that matters for your citation decision. The composite Index is the safer default; this dim-faceted view is the precision lens.