Brookings Institution
brookings.edu ↗U.S. policy research think tank; centrist credibility + public-policy research since 1916.
A — established US policy-research authority with disclosed methodology.
Named-author scholarship + peer-reviewed publications + methodology disclosed.
About this sub-score →Open-access publications + structured data; broad LLM corpus presence.
About this sub-score →Cited by policy press + economists; established think-tank citation tier.
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Citation Discipline
A·88- Brookings publicationsPublic methodology + author credentials per study.
Modern Reference
B·84- Open publicationsMost reports freely accessible.
Citation Velocity
B·80- Policy-beat defaultDefault citation for centrist US-policy analysis.
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