Trust & verification
Reference quality
The catalog cites in two layers. Every coverage-matrix cell carries a primary source — attested at 100% (/wiki/verification). This page measures the secondlayer: the authority quality of each article’s academic & grey-literature evidence base, classified by source type into authority tiers and aggregated across the whole catalog.
The tier is an editorial classification by source type (a peer-reviewed article generally outranks a think-tank note as a source class) — not a quality score of any individual work, and not external peer review. A thinevidence base is a “deepen the secondary literature” signal, not a substantiation defect (the primary-source layer above handles substantiation). Machine-readable: /wiki/reference-quality.json.
Peer-reviewed / standards
69%
Institutional or higher
98%
Distinct sources
295
Thin evidence base
0
Authority-tier distribution
The 295 distinct sources in the evidence base, by authority tier. Shares are of distinct sources. AI-generated finding summaries (93% of sources) are labelled and counted, never dropped.
- Tier 3 · Primary / peer-reviewedPeer-reviewed, Standards body202 (69%)
- Tier 2 · InstitutionalOfficial (grey), Research institute, Incident database, Preprint, Working paper86 (29%)
- Tier 1 · ContextualThink tank, Civil society7 (2%)
Deepen queue — thin or contextual-only evidence bases
110 of 110 published articles carry an academic/grey evidence base (mean institutional-or-higher share 97%); 0 have none and 0 rest only on Tier-1 contextual sources. These are the queue for deepening the secondary literature — the primary-source citations are unaffected.
Every published article has an institutional-or-higher evidence base. Nothing queued.