I am not sure where to post this. I hope this is the right place. It is a link to reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1oj5lsj/top_100_most_influential_fantasy_and_scifi/That person use a system based on links to measure the influence of sci-fi and fantasy authors and created a ranking. Jim Butcher is 284.
I post the first 20 for people who does not want to go to the link
Rank Author Number of Wikilinks
1 J. R. R. Tolkien 8381
2 Oscar Wilde 6498
3 Stephen King 5721
4 Edgar Allan Poe 5564
5 George Orwell 5457
6 Isaac Asimov 4820
7 H. G. Wells 4662
8 Arthur C. Clarke 4224
9 J. K. Rowling 3930
10 H. P. Lovecraft 3903
11 C. S. Lewis 3699
12 Neil Gaiman 3484
13 William Morris 3395
14 Ray Bradbury 3325
15 Lewis Carroll 3283
16 Robert A. Heinlein 2987
17 Jules Verne 2895
18 Toni Morrison 2889
19 Ursula K. Le Guin 2870
20 Mary Shelley 2832
