The Wikio Science Blog Rankings for May

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This Month's Wikio Rankings of Top Science Blogs is as follows: 1 Wired Science - Wired Blog 2 Watts Up With That? 3 Climate Progress 4 RealClimate 5 Bad Astronomy 6 Climate Audit 7 Next Generation Science 8 Respectful Insolence 9 Dispatches from the Culture Wars 10 The Frontal…
... are out. And here they are: 1 Wired Science - Wired Blog 2 Watts Up With That? 3 Climate Progress 4 RealClimate 5 Bad Astronomy 6 Climate Audit 7 Next Generation Science 8 Respectful Insolence 9 Deltoid 10 Dispatches from the Culture Wars 11 The Frontal Cortex 12…
New rankings of Wikio Top Blogs for Science are up.... 1 Wired Science - Wired Blog 11 Next Generation Science 2 Watts Up With That? 12 RealClimate 3 Climate Progress 13 FuturePundit 4 Environmental Capital 14 A Blog Around The Clock 5 Dispatches from the Culture Wars 15 Greg Laden's Blog…
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…

From the Wikio info page:


    The position of a blog in the Wikio ranking depends on the number and weight of the incoming links from other blogs. Our algorithm accords a greater value to links from blogs placed higher up in the ranking. [...]
    Only links found in RSS feeds are counted. Blogrolls are not taken into account.

So this is basically a measure of how much "buzz" a given blog generates. Which explains why 3 of the top 4 are climate blogs (and why Anthony Watts is #2 while Ed Yong is #15...)