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A comment on Ask HN: How would you create the list of the top 100 most influential people?.

Re:Ask HN: How would you create the list of the top 100 most... by rurban on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:16AM (#18872565)
Like in science, number of citations in respected press articles. maybe add book references also.

Voting measures popularity, not influence. Number of biographies is also a good metric, Has_Wikipedia page (notability) also. # search results is a bit limited to internet users only.

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