Cross-post: Cato Tops New CGD Index of Think Tank Profile

On CGD's main blog, Julia Clark and I just posted a ranking of noted American think tanks based on their ability to generate public profile: press mentions, academic citations, web traffic, and social media followers. The effort is aimed at providing some healthy methodological competition for another ranking of think tanks, this one looking at institutions around the world, which experts have mostly criticized. If the criticisms are right, the other index may be distorting funding decisions and think tank behavior from Croatia to Kenya.