Here are the 10 most popular news-related articles, ranked according to page views – features, non-news comment and cat videos (one of which was the ninth most viewed link of the year) are not included.
The same groups – including members of the popular "alt-right" Reddit forum The_Donald – used techniques that are used by reputation management firms and marketers to push their companies up Google's search results, to ensure pro-Trump imagery and articles ranked highly.
We have not listed multiple stories about the NSA (or any other topic) on this list, but the fact that this was one of six stories about NSA secret surveillance in the top 20 articles ranked by page views makes Snowden and his revelations by some distance the Guardian's story of the year.
With the exception of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, with 248 articles, Russian Academy of Sciences, with 248 articles, and Pennsylvania State University, with 203 articles, ranked 2nd, 2nd, and 4th, with which the outputs of these three institutes were all above 200.
In 2009, RePEc, an online database of research economics articles, ranked the UCSC Economics Department sixth in the world in the field of international finance.
Finally by selecting one or more chained keywords, the system returns a list of articles ranked by those selected keywords.
Healthy diets and physical activity articles ranked second place in five of seven regional groups (Latin America & Caribbean, East Asia & Pacific, Multiple Regions, South Asia, and Middle East & North Africa).
In 2006, L. Egghe smoothed this criterion by defining the g-index (GI): "Given a set of articles ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received, the g-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g articles received on average at least g citations" [ 17].
A recent Golf World article ranking the top 25 nine-hole courses in the country listed the Hotchkiss course at No. 22.
