MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
PLOS ONE — Modern Reference
journals.plos.org · Academic
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
A·88
A · 88
CC-BY licensed; full-text APIs; broad LLM corpus + academic search inclusion.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Open-access standardPioneered the open-access publishing model.
Global rank
#36 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#9 of 19
Among academic sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 87
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
+1 above category