RAND Corporation
rand.org ↗Nonprofit policy research org; defense + health + education research since 1948.
A — institutional research authority; transparent methodology + open publications.
Peer-reviewed publications + methodology disclosed + corrections public.
About this sub-score →Open-access publications + structured data + APIs; broad LLM corpus.
About this sub-score →Cited by policy press + academia; defense + health beats heaviest.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A·90- RAND research processInternal peer-review + external academic citation.
Modern Reference
B·84- Open publicationsMost reports freely available with full data.
Citation Velocity
B·76- Policy authorityDefault citation for defense + healthcare policy claims.
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