The Cato Institute

Location: Washington, United States

Founded: 1977

TTA Score: 24.00 points (see how this score was calculated)

Rank: # 19 out of 82 (see full ranking)

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Publications & Citations Timeline

Citations before 2022 are not counted.

Note also that not all outputs are collected (e.g., our database generally focuses on English-language reports that are not in a PDF format), and that data collection may be subject to unintended errors and omissions.

Recent Think Tank Publications

Oct 10, 2025 Michael F. Cannon discusses the government shutdown on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Oct 10, 2025 David J. Bier’s blog post, “65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions,” is cited on WCCB News Rising at 6am

Oct 9, 2025 A Food Fight at the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Oct 9, 2025 Michael F. Cannon discusses the government shutdown on The Bob Harden Show podcast

Oct 9, 2025 David J. Bier’s blog post, “ICE Has Diverted Over 25,000 Officers from Their Jobs,” is cited on WGKB’s Truth in The Morning

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mar 11, 2025 Leveraging State Legislation to Impact Workforce Shortages Nursing Administration Quarterly

Dec 30, 2024 Marc-William Palen: Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. 328 pages. Princeton University Press, 2024, Hardcover 35.00€ Journal of Economics

Aug 26, 2024 A ‘natcon takeover’? The New Right and the future of American foreign policy International Affairs

Mar 7, 2024 Hall Technique for the management of hypomineralized first permanent molars: A protocol of a randomized controlled trial with 3-year follow-up Research Society and Development

Jan 6, 2024 Conservative Talk Radio and political persuasion in the US,1950–1970 Journal of Comparative Economics

Top Research Topics

School Choice and Performance 58 publications

Legal Systems and Judicial Processes 55 publications

American Constitutional Law and Politics 53 publications

Economic Theory and Policy 52 publications

Legal and Constitutional Studies 51 publications

These data refer only to publications in peer-reviewed journals; the data source is OpenAlex.

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 5,053

Authors (since 2020): 160

Citations (since 2022): 95

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 127

Impact Factor (2 years): 1

H-Index: 42

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Doug Bandow

310

Ryan Bourne

174

Jeffrey A. Singer

154

Scott Lincicome

145

Walter Olson

121

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

AEI

288

Brookings

284

Heritage Foundation

258

Tax Foundation

223

CRFB

101

Only citations since 2022 are considered. The range of think tanks taken into account is larger than the ones indexed in this platform (see methodical details).