Difference between Influential and Cogent

INFLUENTIAL vs COGENT: NOUN

Having or exerting influence.
Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency
Having or exercising influence.
Having or exercising influence or power

Forcefully persuasive.
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.
Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing: : valid.
Powerfully persuasive
Having the power to influence or convince

Having or exerting power or influence; possessing or characterized by the possession of influence, or of power to influence: as, influential friends.

Compelling assent or conviction; appealing powerfully to the intellect or moral sense; not easily denied or refuted: as, a cogent reason or argument.
Compelling by physical force; potent; irresistible by physical means.

Affluent, Vocal, Leading, Pivotal, Influencing, Seminal, Influence, Eminent, Prominent, Cogent, Potent, Prestigious, Important, Authoritative, Powerful

Incontrovertible, Irrefutable, Pertinent, Plausible, Credible, Coherent, Eloquent, Compelling, Persuasive, Telling, Potent, Influential, Powerful, Weighty, Forceful

Impressive, Affluent, Vocal, Leading, Pivotal, Influencing, Seminal, Eminent, Prominent, Cogent, Potent, Prestigious, Important, Authoritative, Powerful

Incontrovertible, Irrefutable, Pertinent, Plausible, Credible, Coherent, Eloquent, Compelling, Persuasive, Telling, Potent, Influential, Powerful, Weighty, Forceful

These studies and their findings were hugely influential.
Geometry is the most influential branch of mathematics.
These Influential People Part of the Early Church?
Though she came from a rich and influential family, Peggy married a man from an even richer and more influential family.
What I could say of the influential people of that town would be equally applicable to the influential people of Northfield.
Lastly, I test the sample of prior least influential analysts using the same regression models to see the persistency of influential analysts.
It is this that makes YWAM one of the more influential movements in our Christian world today, if not the most influential.
Interpersonal skills were as influential or more influential than clinical competence on patient satisfaction for three of the four disease categories.
More specifically, what is unduly influential to one subject might be merely influential to another.
That means, most influential analysts significantly outperform least influential analyst by almost two times, and their performance is stable.