June 2012
An analysis that calculates the number of media hits per budget dollar for major think tanks again shows the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) coming out on top in 2011. CEPR had also been first in hits per dollar in the five years from 2004-2008. CEPR also ranked first in web traffic per budget dollar in 2011, getting more than twice the number of hits as its closest competitor. CEPR had ranked first in three of the five years from 2004-2008 and placed second in the other two years.