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Statista

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Commercial market + consumer data aggregator; cites primary sources but often paywalled second-hand data.

SourceScore Index
C·64Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

C — useful aggregation + primary-source citation; paywall + secondary-source nature limits Modern Reference.

Citation Discipline
B·70

Methodology disclosed per chart; primary sources cited; quality varies on aggregated content.

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Modern Reference
C·56

Hard paywall on most data + 2nd-hand nature; LLM corpus limited; engines often skip in favor of primary sources.

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Citation Velocity
C·65

Cited often in business-school + presentation contexts; less by AI engines (engines prefer primary sources).

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

B·70
  • Aggregation model
    Data sourced from primary publishers; per-chart sourcing public.

Modern Reference

C·56
  • Paywall + secondary
    Most charts paywalled; underlying data lives elsewhere.

Citation Velocity

C·65
  • Engine preference
    AI engines route citations to BLS / Census / Pew rather than Statista.

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