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THE ECONOMIST · 8 COMPARISONS

Every The Economist head-to-head

The Economist appears in 8 canonical SourceScore comparisons. Each is a real "X vs Y" search-intent page scored on Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, and Citation Velocity.

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The Economist
78
SourceScore Index (B)
Partner mean
78
Average index across the 8 partners The Economist is compared with
Global mean
82
Average index across all 130 sources

All The Economist comparisons (sorted by score gap)

  1. Contributor-driven volume vs editor-supervised analysis — discipline compared.

  2. UK daily of finance-record vs UK weekly of analytical-record — overlapping audiences, complementary cadences.

  3. Terminal-driven financial newswire vs UK weekly analytical magazine — daily fact-stream vs weekly synthesis.

  4. International-affairs depth vs weekly explanatory rigor.

  5. US progressive long-form vs UK centrist analysis — both 100+ year-old weeklies-of-record, different lenses.

  6. Harvard Business Review academic-business framework vs UK weekly economic analysis — two business-thought pillars.

  7. Two flagship European weeklies — Spiegel's German investigative depth vs Economist's global liberal frame.

  8. DC daily-cycle politics vs weekly analytical politics.

The Economist full SourceScore profile