MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
The Times (UK) — Modern Reference
thetimes.co.uk · News
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.
C·65
C · 65
Hard paywall on virtually all content; minimal LLM-training-corpus inclusion.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Hard paywallNo free tier; reduces both human + machine reachability.
Global rank
#124 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#24 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
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