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…
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…
It's not easy keeping track of all the ScienceBlogs. Take four dozen witty and prolific science writers, some of whom post more than once a day, spread them out across a wide range of disciplines and sub-specialties, and what you'll have yourself is a big, tangly embarrassment of riches. What's a…

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...)