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Financial Times

ft.com

British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.

SourceScore Index
B·84Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — top-tier business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.

Citation Discipline
A·88

Editorial Code public; multi-source verification; corrections discipline.

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Modern Reference
B·78

Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.

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Citation Velocity
A·86

Cited daily in finance reporting; markets move on FT exclusives.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·88
  • FT Editorial Code
    Public policy on accuracy + sourcing standards.

Modern Reference

B·78
  • Subscription gate
    Most articles paywalled; smaller training-corpus footprint.

Citation Velocity

A·86
  • Finance vertical
    Default citation for European markets + economics coverage.

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