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Richard Dawkins' top 10 neighbors span comedians, activists, politicians, TV shows, and a science magazine — with no single subcategory dominating and scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.97 down to 0.96.
The shape is flat: John Oliver leads at 0.97, but the gap to the tenth neighbor, Brian Schatz at 0.96, is negligible. The cluster is defined less by any one type than by its mix. Tallying the top 10 by subcategory: Activists (Greta Thunberg at 0.97, Charlotte Clymer at 0.96, Monica Lewinsky at 0.96) account for three slots; Politicians (Robert Reich at 0.96, Justin Trudeau at 0.96, Brian Schatz at 0.96) account for three more; Comedians (John Oliver at 0.97, Stephen Colbert at 0.96) take two; and the remaining two are a TV show — Last Week Tonight at 0.96 — and a magazine, Scientific American at 0.96. No other Author appears in the top 10, meaning Dawkins' own subcategory is absent from his nearest neighbors entirely. The audience shape is built around politically engaged media consumers and activist-adjacent figures, not around the literary or scientific publishing world.
That cross-kind pattern — an Author whose nearest audiences are comedians, activists, and politicians rather than fellow writers — is the defining structural feature of this similarity profile.
