Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Wikio Releases Latest Science Blog Rankings

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1	Wired Science – Wired Blog
2	Watts Up With That?
3	Climate Progress
4	Environmental Capital
5	Dispatches from the Culture Wars
6	TierneyLab – New York Times blog
7	Gristmill
8	Respectful Insolence
9	Effect Measure
10	The Frontal Cortex
11	Next Generation Science
12	RealClimate
13	FuturePundit
14	A Blog Around The Clock
15	Greg Laden’s Blog
16	Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted
17	Gene Expression
18	Cognitive Daily
19	Uncertain Principles
20	BPS Research Digest
21	Deltoid

22	Laelaps
23	SciGuy
24	The Questionable Authority
25	denialism blog
26	Good Math, Bad Math
27	Thoughts from Kansas
28	Aetiology
29	Inductivist
30	The Write Stuff
31	FemaleScienceProfessor
32	Dynamics of Cats
33	Terra Sigillata
34	Mike the Mad Biologist
35	Sustainablog
36	Thus Spake Zuska
37	Framing Science
38	Open Mind
39	EvolutionBlog
40	Aardvarchaeology

Ranking by Wikio.

If you haven’t checked them out, Wikio ranks science-related blogs by the number and weight of the links to the blog. Wikio’s latest monthly rankings have just been released. Over the past few months, Framing Science has ranked in the top 30 or so science-related blogs based on these metrics.

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