B-grade sources on Citation Discipline
Citation Discipline measures how rigorously a source backs each factual claim with verifiable evidence. Score range 70–84 = solid.
NPR leads B-grade Discipline sources at B · 84 · 30 sources qualify (23% of 130)
Ranked — B on Discipline
- #1B·84
Public ethics handbook; ombudsman role for accountability; corrections public.
- #2B·84
Peer-review checks methodology + ethics; novelty + significance left to readers; corrections public.
- #3B·84
BBC editorial + technical-research practices; methodology disclosed.
- #4B·84
- #5B·84
Independent ownership (Le Monde Group), strong fact-check tradition, public corrections, named bylines.
- #6B·82
- #7B·82
Long fact-check tradition; named bylines; corrections public; some opinion-news drift noted.
- #8B·82
Strong editorial standards, named bylines, public corrections, fact-check process.
- #9B·82
Long fact-checking tradition; named bylines; sources cited; institutional editorial standards.
- #10B·80
Editorial Guidelines mandate dual-source verification; corrections page public.
- #11B·80
Multi-source political reporting; corrections public; named-author bylines + editor accountability.
- #12B·80
Multi-source reporting + named bylines + corrections public; brevity format is structural not editorial choice.
- #13B·80
Methodology + sample documented; primary data from Zillow's own listings + transactions.
- #14B·80
Model + dataset cards + licenses + per-model methodology; community quality varies.
- #15B·80
Selective peer-review + arxiv publication; some research not fully disclosed (commercial constraints).
- #16B·80
Long editorial tradition; named bylines; corrections public; fact-check department.
- #17B·80
Strong fact-check tradition, named bylines, public corrections, in-house Defensor del Lector ombuds.
- #18B·80
Fact-checked editorial; named bylines; sources cited inline; Smithsonian institutional standards.
- #19B·78
Moderation-only filter (not peer-review). Endorsement system catches obvious quality issues; substantive review is downstream.
- #20B·78
Multi-source technical reporting; corrections public; named-author bylines + editorial accountability.
- #21B·78
Editorial standards + named-author bylines + multi-source reporting; mix of deep features + shorter aggregation.
- #22B·78
Editorial code public; multi-source verification standard; corrections process exists.
- #23B·78
Repository-level discipline varies by author; license + README standards encouraged.
- #24B·78
Strong editorial standards historically; ownership-influence concerns raised post-2016 Alibaba acquisition.
- #25B·75
Methodology-disclosed benchmarks; reproducible test conditions; named authors.
- #26B·71
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
- #27B·70
Methodology disclosed per chart; primary sources cited; quality varies on aggregated content.
- #28B·70
Community moderation + voting; quality varies per answer; corrections via edit history.
- #29B·70
Methodology often disclosed; client-conflict structural limit; some research challenged for selection bias.
- #30B·70
Methodology disclosed; client-conflict structural limit applies.