Harvard Business Review vs The Economist — Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
Harvard Business Review outscores The Economist on Citation Discipline by 15 points (A · 86 vs B · 71).
Harvard Business Review
Editor-reviewed by HBP staff + named academic + practitioner authors; corrections public.
The Economist
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
Global rank · Discipline
Why these Discipline scores
Editor-reviewed by HBP staff + named academic + practitioner authors; corrections public.
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
Signals behind the Discipline score
- HBP editorialHarvard Business Publishing editorial process.
- House styleArticles attributed to 'The Economist' rather than named authors.
- Internal fact-checkEditorial review per piece, not externally verifiable.
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — The Economist (economist.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/hbr-vs-the-economist/discipline.json