U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vs U.S. National Institutes of Health
Top two US public-health agencies — operational disease-control vs research-funding-and-output.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal agency for U.S. public-health surveillance + disease prevention; primary-source MMWR + WONDER data.
U.S. National Institutes of Health
U.S. federal medical research agency operating PubMed, NCBI, MedlinePlus, and trial registries.
Head-to-head — all four dimensions
| Dimension | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. National Institutes of Health | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
SourceScore Index Composite | A·94 | A+·95 | U.S.+1 |
Citation Discipline How rigorously cited | A+·95 | A+·95 | tie |
Modern Reference AI-era fitness | A·93 | A·94 | U.S.+1 |
Citation Velocity Cited per week | A·94 | A+·96 | U.S.+2 |
Why these scores
Citation Discipline
Surveillance + outbreak data subject to peer-review + ethics oversight; MMWR is the standard.
Federally-funded research subject to grant + ethics oversight; ClinicalTrials.gov registration required for human studies.
Modern Reference
WONDER + open data + APIs; broad LLM corpus + clinical reference inclusion.
Operates PubMed + NCBI + ClinicalTrials.gov; APIs + bulk data + structured XML throughout.
Citation Velocity
Cited daily by health journalism + AI engines; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.
Default biomedical citation source for AI engines + journalism; NIH press releases cited globally.