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PEERS · 5 CLOSEST · THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sources at The New York Times's tier

The 5 sources closest to The New York Times (A · 88) by composite SourceScore Index, across all categories. Use this view to discover at-tier peers regardless of vertical.

Reference
The New York Times
nytimes.com · News
Disc A · 88·Mod-Ref B · 82·Vel A · 92
A·88
Discipline leader
Cell
A+ · 96+8 vs you
Modern Reference leader
arXiv
A+ · 95+13 vs you
Velocity leader
arXiv
A · 93+1 vs you
Peer-group means (excluding The New York Times)
Index
89
+1 vs you
Discipline
89
+1 vs you
Modern Reference
88
+6 vs you
Velocity
88
-4 vs you

The 5 closest peers

  1. 1
    Eurostatec.europa.eu/eurostatGovernment

    EU statistical office providing harmonized data across all 27 member states + candidate countries.

    Discipline A · 92(+4)Modern Reference A · 90(+8)Velocity B · 82(-10)
    A·88
  2. 2
    World Bankworldbank.orgGovernment

    International financial institution publishing global development + economic data + research.

    Discipline A · 90(+2)Modern Reference A · 90(+8)Velocity B · 84(-8)
    A·88
  3. 3
    arXivarxiv.orgAcademic+1

    Open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science; ~2.4M papers since 1991.

    Discipline B · 78(-10)Modern Reference A+ · 95(+13)Velocity A · 93(+1)
    A·89
  4. 4
    Cellcell.comAcademic+1

    Top biology journal since 1974, published by Elsevier (Cell Press); the default citation in molecular biology.

    Discipline A+ · 96(+8)Modern Reference B · 78(-4)Velocity A · 90(-2)
    A·89
  5. 5
    Reutersreuters.comNews+1

    Global wire service with mandatory two-source verification and machine-readable archives since 1851.

    Discipline A · 91(+3)Modern Reference A · 88(+6)Velocity A · 89(-3)
    A·89

How we picked these peers

Peers are the 5 sources with the smallest absolute distance to The New York Times on the composite SourceScore Index, across all news and non-news sources. Distance is computed as |peer Index − The New York Times Index|. Ties are broken by higher Index first, then alphabetical by name.

Distinct from The New York Times's curated comparator hub, which lists hand-selected head-to-head pairs. Peers is auto-computed from the score data — every source has one, and it surfaces neighbors regardless of editorial selection.

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