Think Tank Alert

Total Score

tiny icon of cato Cato Institute has a total TTA Score of 20.20 points.

This score is the sum of four sub-metrics, as detailed in the following.

Interlinkages

Backlinks to recent articles

tiny icon of brookings Brookings cited recent articles of in 6 of its own reports (+3 points for ).
tiny icon of cfr CFR did so 5 times (+2.5 points for ).
tiny icon of csis CSIS did so 3 times (+1.5 points for ).
tiny icon of heritage Heritage Foundation did so 2 times (+1 point for ).
tiny icon of ceip CEIP did so 1 time (+0.5 points for ).
tiny icon of wilson Wilson Center did so 1 time (+0.5 points for ).

tiny icon of cato Cato Institute thus obtained 9.00 points in this sub-metric of recent backlinks in think tank interlinkages.

Other backlinks

tiny icon of cfr CFR linked to (to sites other than recent articles) in 27 of its reports (+1 point for ).
tiny icon of heritage Heritage Foundation did so 10 times (+1 point for ).
tiny icon of brookings Brookings did so 9 times (+0.9 points for ).
tiny icon of ceip CEIP did so 7 times (+0.7 points for ).
tiny icon of atlanticcouncil Atlantic Council did so 7 times (+0.7 points for ).
tiny icon of csis CSIS did so 7 times (+0.7 points for ).
tiny icon of wilson Wilson Center did so 5 times (+0.5 points for ).
tiny icon of rsis RSIS did so 2 times (+0.2 points for ).
tiny icon of saiia SAIIA did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of rand RAND did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of cidob CIDOB did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of oiip OIIP did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of ifri Ifri did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of clingendael Clingendael did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).
tiny icon of orf ORF did so 1 time (+0.1 points for ).

tiny icon of '.$r['img'].' Cato Institute thus obtained 6.40 points in this sub-metric of other backlinks in think tank interlinkages.

Scientific Metrics

Two-Year Mean Citedness

The two-year mean citedness (or impact factor) of is 0.60. The source for this data is OpenAlex (API-Link here), based on this think tank's ROR ID (i.e., 04kfydn45).

H-Index

The H-Index of is 42, with a tenth of it (or 4.20 points) being added to the total score. The source for this data is likewise OpenAlex.