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 15 Jul 2026

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07/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 299

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:49:30

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. Marshall Poe (2 shows)

3. Noa Kageyama (1 shows)

4. Kelly Chase (1 shows)

5. Stanford Psychology (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (15 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

3. Buzzsprout (12 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Podbean (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1334	Megaphone	58
3	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	338	Simplecast	63
4	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	501	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	28	ART19	73
6	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1117	Audioboom	48
7	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	733	Megaphone	63
8	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1092	PRX	63
9	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
10	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
11	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	22	Captivate	48
12	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
13	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
14	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
15	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
16	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	379	Audioboom	63
17	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
18	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	345	Simplecast	53
19	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
20	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
21	The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria	Matt Cicoria	Science	340	Libsyn	47
22	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	2014	Megaphone	59
23	ABA Inside Track	ABA Inside Track	Science	610	Libsyn	58
24	The Social Work Podcast	Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW	Science	157	Unknown	43
25	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	324	Unknown	48
26	Psychology of the Strange	Tara Perreault	Science	52	Acast	73
27	NASW Social Work Talks	National Association of Social Workers (NASW)	Science	149	Libsyn	58
28	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	300	Libsyn	52
29	Dark Side Of Psychology	Dr. Elio Martino	Science	11	Podomatic	N/A
30	Teamcast	Mission Critical Team Institute	Science	81	Captivate	53
31	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	199	Libsyn	48
32	دغدغه ایران	محمد فاضلی	Science	168	Spreaker	69
33	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	66	Megaphone	53
34	The Thoughtful Counselor	The Thoughful Counselor Team	Science	320	Libsyn	38
35	The Answer Is Transaction Costs Details temporarily unavailable	Michael Munger	Science	84	Buzzsprout	48
37	Dead Rabbit Radio The Daily Paranormal Podcast	Jason Carpenter	Science	1495	Libsyn	57
38	UCLA Housing Voice Details temporarily unavailable	UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies	Science	130	Buzzsprout	78
39	Reverse Psychology	Reverse PsychCast	Science	10	Pinecast	79
40	The Litigation Psychology Podcast	Courtroom Sciences	Science	327	Podbean	37
41	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	134	Fireside	48
42	The Human Progress Podcast	HumanProgress.org	Science	85	Spotify for Podcasters	17
43	EPPP Study Podcast-	Circle Of Insight Productions	Science	102	Spreaker	38
44	Quantitude	Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran	Science	198	Buzzsprout	78
45	Scott Carney Investigates	Scott Carney	Science	95	Spotify for Podcasters	32
46	Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function	Sucheta Kamath	Science	210	Buzzsprout	68
47	Templeton Ideas Podcast	John Templeton Foundation	Science	87	Libsyn	72
48	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
49	The Bulletproof Musician	Noa Kageyama	Science	417	Buzzsprout	48
50	The Evolving Behavior Analyst	The Society for the Expansion of Behavior Analysis	Science	5	Unknown	32
51	Converging Dialogues	Converging Dialogues	Science	506	Substack	53
52	Two Guys on Your Head	KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke	Science	299	Blubrry Podcasting	38
53	Misguided: The Podcast	Matthew Facciani	Science	23	Substack	48
54	Prison Breakdown	Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson	Science	96	RedCircle	49
55	Cultures of Energy	Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe	Science	263	Libsyn	48
56	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
57	Bent Not Broken: Starting Over After Divorce \| Post Divorce Life	Deborah Griffiths	Science	88	Podetize	63
58	The Pie: An Economics Podcast	Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago	Science	135	Megaphone	48
59	The Human Behavior Podcast	The Human Behavior Podcast	Science	291	Buzzsprout	52
60	The Addiction Psychologist	Samuel Acuff and Noah Emery	Science	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
61	The Medical Mind Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychiatric Association	Science	95	Libsyn	49
62	Blurry Photos	David Flora	Science	424	Spreaker	49
63	SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human	SAPIENS	Science	92	PRX	78
64	Money & Macro Talks	Money & Macro Talks	Science	53	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	Ideas in Development	Ideas in Development	Science	32	Audioboom	32
66	Experimental History	Adam Mastroianni	Science	77	Buzzsprout	38
67	The Perception & Action Podcast	Rob Gray	Science	594	Libsyn	37
68	一口經濟學 bitesize economics	Charles Liao	Science	197	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Jung Chicago Radio	C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago	Science	151	Blubrry	59
70	Beyond the Couch: AI in Psychology	Ernest Wayde	Science	26	Captivate	68
71	The Death Studies Podcast	The Death Studies Podcast	Science	68	Spotify for Podcasters	27
72	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
73	Spooky Psychology	Lauren Mollica and Megan Baker	Science	50	Libsyn	43
74	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Science	19	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
76	Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast	Digging a Hole Podcast	Science	80	Spotify for Podcasters	32
77	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
78	New Books in Science, Technology, and Society	New Books Network	Science	2001	Megaphone	53
79	ABA MOM	Allie Langan	Science	71	RSS.com	58
80	Behavioral Grooves Podcast	Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan	Science	489	Podbean	57
81	Grey Dynamics	Grey Dynamics	Science	79	Acast	89
82	For Better or Worse: A Family Law Podcast	TALG LAW	Science	5	Spotify for Podcasters	22
83	New Books in Anthropology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
84	New Books in Public Policy	New Books Network	Science	2147	Megaphone	53
85	New Books in Economics	Marshall Poe	Science	1574	Megaphone	59
86	The Restoration Psychology Podcast	Restoration Psychology	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	47
87	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
88	Personality Psychology Podcast	personalitypsychologypodcast	Science	63	Podbean	37
89	One in Ten	National Children's Alliance	Science	147	Buzzsprout	73
90	International Politics Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Yale University	Social Sciences	10	N/A	N/A
91	Paranormal Almanac	Curt Sandvig	Science	365	Podbean	42
92	گوش نیوش های دکتر شیری	Dr. Shiri	Science & Medicine	190	Unknown	33
93	Talks On Psychoanalysis	International Psychoanalytical Association	Science	100	Podbean	58
94	The Social Work Lens	Vermont CWTP	Science	72	Podbean	48
95	Messy Social Work	Rich and Tim	Science	120	Buzzsprout	48
96	ABA on Call	CentralReach	Science	78	Libsyn	68
97	Military Psychology Podcast	Division 19	Science	33	Captivate	68
98	Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast	Pique Action	Science	8	Unknown	27
99	Opinion Science	Andy Luttrell	Science	169	Buzzsprout	58
100	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Science	53	Spotify for Podcasters	22

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