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No.	Record	SIC	NAICS
1	Life 67%	2721	513120
2	The New Yorker 67%	2721	513120
3	National Geographic 67%	2721	513120
4	Time 67%	2721	513120
5	Vogue 67%	2721	513120
6	The Atlantic 67%	2721	513120
7	Scientific American 67%	2721	513120
8	Rolling Stone 67%	2721	513120
9	The Economist 67%	2721	513120
10	Ebony 67%	2721	513120
11	Harper’s Magazine 67%	2721	513120
12	The Saturday Evening Post 67%	2721	513120
13	Ms. 67%	2721	513120
14	Fortune 67%	2721	513120
15	The Spectator 50%	2721	513120
16	Punch 67%	2721	513120
17	Esquire 67%	2721	513120
18	Vanity Fair 67%	2721	513120
19	Playboy 67%	2721	513120
20	Sports Illustrated 67%	2721	513120
21	The New York Review of Books 50%	2721	513120
22	The Paris Review 67%	2721	513120
23	The Saturday Review 67%	2721	513120
24	The Nation 67%	2721	513120
25	The New Republic 67%	2721	513120
26	The Tatler 67%	2721	513120
27	The Spectator (1711–12) 67%	2721	513120
28	The Gentleman’s Magazine 67%	2721	513120
29	Godey’s Lady’s Book 67%	2721	513120
30	Cosmopolitan 67%	2721	513120
31	Good Housekeeping 67%	2721	513120
32	Reader’s Digest 67%	2721	513120
33	The Illustrated London News 67%	2721	513120
34	Look 67%	2721	513120
35	Jet 67%	2721	513120
36	Essence 50%	2721	513120
37	The Crisis 67%	2721	513120
38	The Saturday Review of Literature 67%	2721	513120
39	National Review 67%	2721	513120
40	The Progressive 50%	2721	513120
41	Wired 67%	2721	513120
42	PC Magazine 67%	2721	513120
43	Byte 67%	2721	513120
44	Popular Science 67%	2721	513120
45	Popular Mechanics 67%	2721	513120
46	Nature 67%	2721	513120
47	Science 67%	2721	513120
48	New Scientist 50%	2721	513120
49	Smithsonian 50%	2721	513120
50	Audubon 67%	2721	513120
51	The New Statesman 67%	2721	513120
52	Private Eye 50%	2721	513120
53	The Times Literary Supplement 67%	2721	513120
54	The London Review of Books 50%	2721	513120
55	The New York Times Magazine 67%	2721	513120
56	The Sunday Times Magazine 50%	2721	513120
57	Paris Match 67%	2721	513120
58	Der Spiegel 67%	2721	513120
59	L’Express 67%	2721	513120
60	The Illustrated Weekly of India 67%	2721	513120
61	India Today 50%	2721	513120
62	The Walrus 50%	2721	513120
63	Maclean’s 67%	2721	513120
64	Granta 67%	2721	513120
65	The Kenyon Review 50%	2721	513120
66	The Partisan Review 67%	2721	513120
67	The Evergreen Review 67%	2721	513120
68	The Little Review 67%	2721	513120
69	Poetry 67%	2721	513120
70	Mad 50%	2721	513120
71	The Onion 50%	2721	513120
72	Interview 67%	2721	513120
73	i-D 67%	2721	513120
74	The Face 67%	2721	513120
75	Dazed 50%	2721	513120
76	Harper’s Bazaar 67%	2721	513120
77	Elle 67%	2721	513120
78	Women’s Wear Daily 50%	2721	513120
79	Architectural Digest 67%	2721	513120
80	Domus 67%	2721	513120
81	Wallpaper* 67%	2721	513120
82	Artforum 67%	2721	513120
83	ARTnews 67%	2721	513120
84	Aperture 50%	2721	513120
85	The Camera 50%	2721	513120
86	Billboard 67%	2721	513120
87	DownBeat 67%	2721	513120
88	NME 67%	2721	513120
89	Q 50%	2721	513120
90	Spin 67%	2721	513120
91	Film Comment 50%	2721	513120
92	Cahiers du cinéma 67%	2721	513120
93	Sight and Sound 67%	2721	513120
94	TV Guide 67%	2721	513120
95	People 67%	2721	513120
96	Entertainment Weekly 67%	2721	513120
97	Better Homes & Gardens 50%	2721	513120
98	Martha Stewart Living 67%	2721	513120
99	Bon Appétit 67%	2721	513120
100	The Whole Earth Catalog 67%	2721	513120
101	Newsweek 67%	2721	513120
102	Forbes 50%	2721	513120
103	Bloomberg Businessweek 67%	2721	513120
104	Harvard Business Review 67%	2721	513120
105	Foreign Affairs 50%	2721	513120
106	Foreign Policy 50%	2721	513120
107	New York 50%	2721	513120
108	Texas Monthly 67%	2721	513120
109	Collier's 67%	2721	513120
110	McClure's 67%	2721	513120
111	The Century Magazine 67%	2721	513120
112	Blackwood's Magazine 67%	2721	513120
113	The Edinburgh Review 67%	2721	513120
114	The Quarterly Review 67%	2721	513120
115	The Dial 67%	2721	513120
116	transition 50%	2721	513120
117	Blast 67%	2721	513120
118	The Criterion 67%	2721	513120
119	Camera Work 67%	2721	513120
120	National Lampoon 67%	2721	513120
121	Spy 67%	2721	513120
122	Creem 67%	2721	513120
123	Melody Maker 67%	2721	513120
124	Mojo 67%	2721	513120
125	The Source 67%	2721	513120
126	Vibe 67%	2721	513120
127	GQ 67%	2721	513120
128	Gourmet 67%	2721	513120
129	Food & Wine 50%	2721	513120
130	Saveur 67%	2721	513120
131	Outside 67%	2721	513120
132	The Believer 50%	2721	513120
133	n+1 50%	2721	513120
134	The Baffler 50%	2721	513120
135	McSweeney's 67%	2721	513120
136	Commentary 67%	2721	513120
137	Dissent 50%	2721	513120
138	Mother Jones 67%	2721	513120
139	MIT Technology Review 67%	2721	513120
140	Omni 67%	2721	513120
141	Consumer Reports 67%	2721	513120
142	Variety 50%	2721	513120
143	Premiere 67%	2721	513120
144	Empire 67%	2721	513120
145	Frieze 67%	2721	513120
146	Ray Gun 50%	2721	513120
147	Emigre 67%	2721	513120
148	The World of Interiors 67%	2721	513120
149	Monocle 50%	2721	513120
150	Charlie Hebdo 67%	2721	513120
151	The Sporting News 67%	2721	513120
152	The Ring 67%	2721	513120
153	Runner's World 67%	2721	513120
154	ESPN The Magazine 67%	2721	513120

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Methodology: Ranks 1–100 are the source order and were not moved. Ranks 101–150 are an editorial continuation. Ranks 151–154 exist so Sports is a shelf, not a single card. Fields now include the ones the first pass had folded away: Film, Sports, Business, Computing, and Politics, alongside News, Ideas, Picture, Fashion, Science, Culture, Satire, Literature, Home, Design, and Music. The maker is the publishing house, not a repeat of the title. Year is the first issue, or the revival when that is the run the note describes. The Camera still has no confirmed first year. The Dial here is the 1920 magazine. Bloomberg Businessweek is dated 1929, when it was BusinessWeek.
Sourcing: Ranks 1–100: Top 100 Magazines of All Time. Nature and Science stay as journals; The Whole Earth Catalog stays catalog-like. Later ranks use the same standard — influence, not circulation. Country, cadence, and whether it is still publishing sit on each record. A cover is used only when the image is that periodical: a Wikipedia or Commons cover, or a scanned issue. Fourteen titles had no trustworthy cover and stay on name plates.
Provenance: File 015. 154 magazines. Source hundred, fifty more, then four sports titles so that field is not empty. Slug top-magazines.

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