World Bank
worldbank.org ↗International financial institution publishing global development + economic data + research.
A — international primary-source authority on global economic data + development research.
Multi-country data with World Bank methodology; staff research peer-reviewed.
About this sub-score →WB Open Data API + bulk downloads; CC-BY licensed; broad LLM corpus presence.
About this sub-score →Cited daily by international press + economists; default for development-economics claims.
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Citation Discipline
A·90- WB Open DataMember-country data with documented methodology.
Modern Reference
A·90- Open Data initiativeAll datasets free + machine-readable.
Citation Velocity
B·84- Economist-defaultFirst-line for global GDP + development-stat citations.
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