MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vs U.S. National Institutes of Health — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Verdict
U.S. National Institutes of Health outscores U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Modern Citation Reference by 1 points (A · 94 vs A · 93).
Government
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cdc.gov
A·93
Rank #10 of 130 on Modern Reference
WONDER + open data + APIs; broad LLM corpus + clinical reference inclusion.
Higher Modern Reference
Government
U.S. National Institutes of Health
nih.gov
A·94
Rank #5 of 130 on Modern Reference
Operates PubMed + NCBI + ClinicalTrials.gov; APIs + bulk data + structured XML throughout.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionA·93
Modern Reference · 93/100
WONDER + open data + APIs; broad LLM corpus + clinical reference inclusion.
U.S. National Institutes of HealthA·94
Modern Reference · 94/100
Operates PubMed + NCBI + ClinicalTrials.gov; APIs + bulk data + structured XML throughout.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC WONDERPublic health data system with free API access.
U.S. National Institutes of Health
- ClinicalTrials.govMandatory trial registry, machine-readable.
Other dimensions for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vs U.S. National Institutes of Health
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