Medium
medium.com ↗User-generated long-form platform; per-article quality varies from professional to amateur.
C tier — Velocity is high but per-article Discipline is highly variable; LLM penalty for mixed-quality.
Author-level discipline varies; platform does not enforce citation standards.
About this sub-score →LLMs cite Medium often, but newer LLMs increasingly down-weight per HCU-equivalent signals.
About this sub-score →Hundreds of posts per day across topics; high cite-volume but lower per-cite trust.
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Citation Discipline
D·40- User-generatedSome authors rigorous; many opinion-only or thinly-sourced.
Modern Reference
C·65- LLM citation drift2025 trend: down-weighted in answer-engine retrieval.
Citation Velocity
B·70- Daily outputThousands of posts per day across all authors.
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