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Who Are the Most Inspirational Authors on Medium? (Statistically)

An analysis of the 107 most internally linked authors on Medium.com

6 min readSep 4, 2020

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Have you ever wondered which writers inspire other writers the most? That was my mission today, and here are the results!

I measured the number of times an author is referenced or linked to within Medium itself. I then ranked them from the highest to lowest.

Now when I say inspiring, this is obviously a very subjective term. Trying to quantify inspiration is a pretty difficult task.

But I had to choose one word, so I went with inspiration. Other ways to look at these results could be:

  • Usefulness of material
  • Shareability
  • Likeability

Either way, these results are quite interesting to me — and maybe to you too!

In the below list, I included the author's name, the number of followers, what categories they write in — and what rank they are in terms of being referenced on the platform.

How I sorted the data

I used a combination of tools in the Medium platform itself as well as a 3rd party SEO tool to do this.

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J.J. Pryor
J.J. Pryor

Written by J.J. Pryor

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