The phrase "authoritative list" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a list that is recognized as a definitive or official source of information on a particular subject.
Example: "The committee published an authoritative list of the approved vendors for the project."
Alternatives: "official list" or "definitive list".
There is no traditional authoritative list of Tantric texts, but many are extant.
Cambridge has slipped down an authoritative list of international university rankings in a league table of top universities published on Tuesday.
The same year Hoch painted "Roma" the art critic Gustav Hartlaub published an authoritative list dividing German modernists into two opposing, evenly populated categories: right-winger classicists and left-winger realists.
The closest thing to an authoritative list is the series of papers prepared by Richard J. Koke, a curator at the New-York Historical Society, in 1950, 1958 and 1964, and even his tallies have many lacunae.
LONDON — A 98-year-old man whose name figured prominently on an authoritative list of suspected Nazi war criminals died over the weekend in Budapest while awaiting trial, his lawyer said Monday.
The catalog entry said "The Faun" would be included in the catalogue raisonné, or authoritative list of known works, of Gauguin sculptures that was being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute in Paris.
D. Databases: Interactive versions of authoritative lists, including The Forbes 400, the World's Billionaires and The Forbes 500s.
We carefully developed a road map for retailers (called the Hazardous 100+ list) based on the leading authoritative lists on toxic chemicals.
There are slight differences between this list and other authoritative lists for Hymenoptera (see additional file 1): the list generally follows Gauld & Bolton [ 48], although departs significantly in splitting Apidae (sensu lato) into several families, following Goulet & Huber [ 49].
Fewer than 300 mountain gorillas remained when Fossey worked in the Volcans national park in 1967, and although numbers rose to 480 in a 2010 census, the species is still listed as critically endangered by the authoritative Red List.
It was at the top of the 2012 rankings in Golf Digest's authoritative Hot List evaluations.
