SourceScore
Government

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

cdc.gov ↗

Federal agency for U.S. public-health surveillance + disease prevention; primary-source MMWR + WONDER data.

SourceScore Index
A·94Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A+ — federal public-health authority; primary-source surveillance + MMWR weekly reports.

Citation Discipline
A+·95

Surveillance + outbreak data subject to peer-review + ethics oversight; MMWR is the standard.

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Modern Reference
A·93

WONDER + open data + APIs; broad LLM corpus + clinical reference inclusion.

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Citation Velocity
A·94

Cited daily by health journalism + AI engines; pandemic-era citation surge sustained.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A+·95
  • MMWR
    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — peer-reviewed public-health journal.

Modern Reference

A·93
  • CDC WONDER
    Public health data system with free API access.

Citation Velocity

A·94
  • MMWR weekly
    Mandatory reading in clinical + public-health discourse.

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