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Government

International Monetary Fund

imf.org ↗

International monetary cooperation organization; World Economic Outlook + IFS database; research arm.

SourceScore Index
A·86Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — international primary-source for monetary + macroeconomic data; staff research peer-reviewed.

Citation Discipline
A·90

Member-country data with IMF methodology; published research peer-reviewed by Fund staff.

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Modern Reference
A·86

Open data + APIs + bulk downloads; broad LLM corpus presence.

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Citation Velocity
B·82

Cited regularly by international press + economists; spring + fall WEO releases drive cycles.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·90
  • IFS database
    International Financial Statistics with documented methodology.

Modern Reference

A·86
  • IMF Data API
    Free public REST API for IFS + WEO data.

Citation Velocity

B·82
  • WEO release cycle
    Twice-yearly World Economic Outlook drives citation surges.

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