Yeah as I said I did not look to carefully into the methodology and would definitely suggest that if anyone is making funding or similarly big decisions based on this, they should dig deeper. Good that you clarify this as I definitely do not want anyone to make big decisions based on this without double checking how much these rankings can be trusted and how likely they are to indicate how much various think tanks influence policy.
Yeah as I said I did not look to carefully into the methodology and would definitely suggest that if anyone is making funding or similarly big decisions based on this, they should dig deeper. Good that you clarify this as I definitely do not want anyone to make big decisions based on this without double checking how much these rankings can be trusted and how likely they are to indicate how much various think tanks influence policy.