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Times Higher Education's top 10 neighbors span five distinct subcategories — Podcasts and Radio, News Publishers, Magazines, Activism, and Research Organizations — with no single type dominating and scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.86 to 0.90. That flat distribution is the structural finding: no one neighbor pulls away from the pack.
The four highest-scoring neighbors are NPR Science Desk (0.90), Inside Higher Ed (0.90), The Chronicle of Higher Education (0.90), and March For Science (0.89). Two of those — Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle — share Times Higher Education's own News Publishers or adjacent editorial subcategory, making them the clearest same-kind matches in the set. The other two are a science-focused radio desk and a science advocacy organization, pointing toward a research and science-literacy thread running through the audience. National Science Foundation (0.89) reinforces that thread as a Research Organization. Rounding out the top 10 are Up First (0.87), Science Friday (0.87), AP Stylebook (0.87), Science Magazine (0.86), and Tamara Keith (0.86) — the lone individual in the group, a journalist, and the only Celebrities and Influencers entry in the top 10.
The overall shape is an audience that sits at the intersection of higher-education publishing and public-radio science coverage, with no single neighbor strong enough to define it alone.
