Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Social Sciences

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 03 Nov 2026

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11/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 279

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:48:18

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. Marshall Poe (2 shows)

3. Duke World Food Policy Center (1 shows)

4. SAPIENS (1 shows)

5. Rich and Tim (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (20 shows)

2. Buzzsprout (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	633	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1363	Megaphone	58
3	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	553	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	36	ART19	73
5	Pursuit of the Paranormal	Ash and Greg	Science	328	RSS.com	32
6	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	346	Simplecast	63
7	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	121	N/A	N/A
8	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
9	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	754	Megaphone	63
10	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	359	PRX	53
11	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
12	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
13	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	225	Simplecast	58
14	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	348	Simplecast	53
15	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	72	Megaphone	53
16	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	384	Audioboom	63
17	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
18	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
19	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1100	PRX	63
20	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	202	Libsyn	48
21	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	307	Libsyn	52
22	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	327	Unknown	48
23	The Social Work Podcast	Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW	Science	157	Unknown	43
24	UCLA Housing Voice Details temporarily unavailable	UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies	Science	130	Buzzsprout	78
25	The Thoughtful Counselor	The Thoughful Counselor Team	Science	322	Libsyn	38
26	DeltaPi \| دلتاپی	Farzad Fakhrizadeh	Science	9	RSS.com	52
27	Quantitude	Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran	Science	203	Buzzsprout	78
28	ABA Inside Track	ABA Inside Track	Science	618	Libsyn	58
29	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
30	NASW Social Work Talks	National Association of Social Workers (NASW)	Science	151	Libsyn	58
31	The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria	Matt Cicoria	Science	342	Libsyn	47
32	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
33	The Autistic VOICE Project	The Autistic VOICE Project	Science	54	Spotify for Podcasters	42
34	Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast	Digging a Hole Podcast	Science	84	Spotify for Podcasters	27
35	Dark Side Of Psychology	Dr. Elio Martino	Science	11	Podomatic	N/A
36	Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity	The Brookings Institution	Science	48	Libsyn	47
37	Templeton Ideas Podcast	John Templeton Foundation	Science	87	Libsyn	72
38	Dreaming with Dr. Michael Lennox	Michael Lennox	Science	2	Libsyn	42
39	Kohn's Zone	Alfie Kohn	Science	34	Blubrry	59
41	دغدغه ایران	محمد فاضلی	Science	170	Spreaker	69
42	Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast	Policy Press	Science	10	Acast	62
43	The Bulletproof Musician	Noa Kageyama	Science	417	Buzzsprout	48
44	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
45	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
46	The Addiction Psychologist	Samuel Acuff and Noah Emery	Science	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
47	New Books in Anthropology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
48	گوش نیوش های دکتر شیری	Dr. Shiri	Science & Medicine	0	Unknown	33
49	The Human Progress Podcast	HumanProgress.org	Science	88	Spotify for Podcasters	17
50	Behavioral Grooves Podcast	Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan	Science	500	Podbean	57
51	Everything Hertz	Dan Quintana	Science	196	Fireside	59
52	The Medical Mind Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychiatric Association	Science	95	Libsyn	49
53	Reverse Psychology	Reverse PsychCast	Science	10	Pinecast	79
54	New Books in Sociology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	69
55	The Litigation Psychology Podcast	Courtroom Sciences	Science	334	Podbean	37
56	The Skeptic Podcast	The Skeptic	Science	89	Libsyn	48
57	Functional Relations	Zachary Bird, PhD, BCBA-D and Caleb Davis, PhD, BCBA-D	Science	52	Libsyn	68
58	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
59	VoxDev Development Economics	VoxDev.org	Science	351	Audioboom	52
60	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
61	Podcast de Juan Ramón Rallo	Juan Ramón Rallo	Science	2311	Acast	28
62	ABA on Call	CentralReach	Science	80	Libsyn	68
63	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	136	Fireside	48
64	The Answer Is Transaction Costs Details temporarily unavailable	Michael Munger	Science	84	Buzzsprout	48
65	Jung Chicago Radio	C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago	Science	151	Blubrry	59
66	Dead Rabbit Radio The Daily Paranormal Podcast	Jason Carpenter	Science	1595	Libsyn	57
67	New Books in Science, Technology, and Society	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	73
68	Teamcast	Mission Critical Team Institute	Science	85	Captivate	53
70	Save the World with Jay Friedenberg	Jay Friedenberg	Science	9	Buzzsprout	58
71	Blurry Photos	David Flora	Science	424	Spreaker	49
72	洪晃\|晃然大悟	洪晃\|晃然大悟	Science	213	lizhi.fm	38
73	One in Ten	National Children's Alliance	Science	151	Buzzsprout	73
74	Two Guys on Your Head	KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke	Science	299	Blubrry Podcasting	38
75	The Skeptic Zone	Richard Saunders	Science	944	Libsyn	49
76	Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function	Sucheta Kamath	Science	210	Buzzsprout	68
77	State of Mind with Debra Sloss	Debra Sloss	Science	96	Unknown	52
78	The Pie: An Economics Podcast	Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago	Science	138	Megaphone	48
79	MBT EN – Understanding Mentalization-Based Treatment	Jasper Manders	Science	45	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	Heal NPD	Mark Ettensohn, Psy.D.	Science	71	Podbean	42
81	The Human Intelligence Podcast	IQ & Human Intelligence by Riot IQ	Science	15	RSS.com	57
82	It’s a Very Exciting Time	Scott Vandehey and Chuck Lauer Vose	Science	98	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	一口經濟學 bitesize economics	Charles Liao	Science	201	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Messy Social Work	Rich and Tim	Science	127	Buzzsprout	48
85	Big Seance: My Paranormal World	Patrick Keller	Science	269	Libsyn	62
86	SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human	SAPIENS	Science	92	PRX	78
87	A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism	Hans-Hermann Hoppe	Science	10	Unknown	48
88	روزنک Rozanak \| روانشناسی و سلامت روان با رویکرد علمی	Farzad Bayan	Science	14	Spotify for Podcasters	48
89	The Perception & Action Podcast	Rob Gray	Science	598	Libsyn	37
90	New Books in Genocide Studies	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
91	Psychoanalysis and Addiction	Graeme Daniels	Science	133	Buzzsprout	62
92	Converging Dialogues	Converging Dialogues	Science	511	Substack	53
93	'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Science	430	Audioboom	38
94	The Leading Voices in Food	Duke World Food Policy Center	Science	293	Libsyn	72
95	Taboo Science	Ashley Hamer Pritchard	Science	72	Spreaker	69
96	Rad N Bad Podcast	Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group	Science	69	Spotify for Podcasters	47
97	ABA on Tap	Mike Rubio, BCBA & Dan Lowery, BCBA (co-Hosts) & Suzanne Juzwik, BCBA (Producer)	Science	134	Buzzsprout	79
98	APA Journals Dialogue	American Psychological Association	Science	31	Megaphone	48
99	The Leading Edge: Transforming Leadership Through Attachment Science	theleadingedgeinleadership	Science	7	Podbean	42
100	Human Centered	Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences	Science	91	Simplecast	69

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