Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and CNBC, tops Gorkana's roster of the most influential journalists for the second year in a row.

andrew ross sorkinSorkin though slipped a bit, cited by 23.7 percent of the 422 respondents down from 27.5 percent in the year ago survey.

Jon Hilsenrath of the Wall Street Journal again held the second position on the list, attracting 17.7 percent of nominations.

Gretchen Morgenson of the NYT and Michael Lewis of Vanity Fair were tied for third place, earning nominations from 14.4 percent of the professionals working in the financial news business.

Jim Cramer (CNBC/TheStreet), Paul Krugman (NYT), Felix Salmon (Fusion), Jason Zweig (WSJ), Joe Weisenthal (Bloomberg) and Maria Bartiromo (Fox Business) round out the list.

David Wessel, who left the WSJ for The Brookings Institution, and Matt Taibbi, contributor to VF and Rolling Stone, dropped off the Top Ten list. Weisenthal and Zweig replaced them.

Gorkana's rankings of the most influential publications are WSJ, Bloomberg News, NYT, Financial Times, CNBC, Reuters, The Economist, Forbes, Fox News/Business and Yahoo! Finance.