Bottom 10 sources on Modern Citation Reference
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Forbes sits at the bottom of modern reference at C · 65 · use these sources cautiously when citing
Ranked — Bottom 10 on Modern Reference
- #121C·65
Open-web; high domain-level citation history; Modern engines increasingly skip contributor pieces.
- #122C·65
Open-web; structured-data; partial LLM corpus inclusion (engines down-weight opinion content).
- #123C·65
Open-web; broad LLM corpus inclusion; engines increasingly down-weight contributor pieces.
- #124C·65
Hard paywall on virtually all content; minimal LLM-training-corpus inclusion.
- #125C·65
Hard paywall on Japanese content; English edition open but smaller scope.
- #126C·65
Site closed for new content August 2024; archive still indexed; no new freshness signal.
- #127C·60
Hard paywall on full reports; press releases + summaries free; schema basic.
- #128C·56
Hard paywall on most data + 2nd-hand nature; LLM corpus limited; engines often skip in favor of primary sources.
- #129F·38
LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface BuzzFeed.
- #130F·30
LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface tabloids.