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 17 Jul 2026

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

07/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 335

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:49:49

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. Marshall Poe (2 shows)

3. Dr. Shiri (1 shows)

4. Study Notes ABA, LLC (1 shows)

5. Michael Munger (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (15 shows)

2. Buzzsprout (11 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	502	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	29	ART19	73
6	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1117	Audioboom	48
7	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
8	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
9	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
10	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	734	Megaphone	63
11	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1092	PRX	63
12	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	27	Libsyn	53
13	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
14	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	345	Simplecast	53
15	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
16	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	324	Unknown	48
17	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	379	Audioboom	63
18	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
19	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
20	ABA Inside Track	ABA Inside Track	Science	611	Libsyn	58
21	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
23	The Social Work Podcast	Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW	Science	157	Unknown	43
24	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	2014	Megaphone	59
25	The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria	Matt Cicoria	Science	340	Libsyn	47
26	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	199	Libsyn	48
27	NASW Social Work Talks	National Association of Social Workers (NASW)	Science	149	Libsyn	58
28	دغدغه ایران	محمد فاضلی	Science	168	Spreaker	69
29	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	66	Megaphone	53
30	Psychology of the Strange	Tara Perreault	Science	52	Acast	73
31	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
32	The Answer Is Transaction Costs Details temporarily unavailable	Michael Munger	Science	84	Buzzsprout	48
33	Jung Chicago Radio	C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago	Science	151	Blubrry	59
34	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	300	Libsyn	52
35	Templeton Ideas Podcast	John Templeton Foundation	Science	87	Libsyn	72
36	Dark Side Of Psychology	Dr. Elio Martino	Science	11	Podomatic	N/A
37	UCLA Housing Voice Details temporarily unavailable	UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies	Science	130	Buzzsprout	78
38	The Bulletproof Musician	Noa Kageyama	Science	417	Buzzsprout	48
39	Teamcast	Mission Critical Team Institute	Science	81	Captivate	53
40	The Thoughtful Counselor	The Thoughful Counselor Team	Science	320	Libsyn	38
41	Two Guys on Your Head	KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke	Science	299	Blubrry Podcasting	38
42	Between the Lines	Institute of Development Studies	Science	82	Acast	84
43	The International Security Podcast	International Security	Science	28	Simplecast	58
44	Dead Rabbit Radio The Daily Paranormal Podcast	Jason Carpenter	Science	1495	Libsyn	57
45	The Perception & Action Podcast	Rob Gray	Science	594	Libsyn	37
46	Blurry Photos	David Flora	Science	424	Spreaker	49
47	Quantitude	Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran	Science	198	Buzzsprout	78
48	The Pie: An Economics Podcast	Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago	Science	135	Megaphone	48
49	Scott Carney Investigates	Scott Carney	Science	95	Spotify for Podcasters	32
50	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
51	The Evolving Behavior Analyst	The Society for the Expansion of Behavior Analysis	Science	5	Unknown	32
52	The Addiction Psychologist	Samuel Acuff and Noah Emery	Science	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
53	The Restoration Psychology Podcast	Restoration Psychology	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	47
54	Talks On Psychoanalysis	International Psychoanalytical Association	Science	100	Podbean	58
55	Rad N Bad Podcast	Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group	Science	62	Spotify for Podcasters	47
56	Misguided: The Podcast	Matthew Facciani	Science	23	Substack	48
57	EPPP Study Podcast-	Circle Of Insight Productions	Science	102	Spreaker	38
58	Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function	Sucheta Kamath	Science	210	Buzzsprout	68
59	The Science of Personality Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Hogan Assessments	Science	186	Buzzsprout	27
60	The Human Behavior Podcast	The Human Behavior Podcast	Science	292	Buzzsprout	52
61	The Human Progress Podcast	HumanProgress.org	Science	85	Spotify for Podcasters	17
62	Reverse Psychology	Reverse PsychCast	Science	10	Pinecast	79
63	The Litigation Psychology Podcast	Courtroom Sciences	Science	327	Podbean	37
64	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
65	Therapy 101	JL McVey	Science	12	RSS.com	63
66	گوش نیوش های دکتر شیری	Dr. Shiri	Science & Medicine	190	Unknown	33
67	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
68	Talking Child Development	ccfdau	Science	40	Podbean	42
69	Sex Life Science	Justin Gregory Briggs, Ph.D., LMFT	Science	70	Libsyn	58
70	New Books in Genocide Studies	Marshall Poe	Science	649	Megaphone	53
71	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
72	Behavioral Grooves Podcast	Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan	Science	489	Podbean	57
73	World Bank Group │ What Have We Learned? The Evaluation Podcast	World Bank Group / Independent Evaluation Group	Science	25	Podbean	37
74	The Death Studies Podcast	The Death Studies Podcast	Science	68	Spotify for Podcasters	27
75	A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism	Hans-Hermann Hoppe	Science	10	Unknown	48
76	One in Ten	National Children's Alliance	Science	147	Buzzsprout	73
77	New Books in Public Policy	New Books Network	Science	2143	Megaphone	53
78	New Books in Sociology	New Books Network	Science	3744	Megaphone	59
79	Converging Dialogues	Converging Dialogues	Science	506	Substack	53
80	New Books in Anthropology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
81	Paranormal Almanac	Curt Sandvig	Science	365	Podbean	42
82	The We Society	AcSS	Science	93	Audioboom	79
83	ABA MOM	Allie Langan	Science	71	RSS.com	58
84	Naruhodo	Naruhodo, Ken Fujioka, Altay de Souza, B9	Science	593	Simplecast	53
85	Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast	Pique Action	Science	8	Unknown	27
87	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	134	Fireside	48
88	The Medical Mind Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychiatric Association	Science	95	Libsyn	49
89	Cultures of Energy	Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe	Science	263	Libsyn	48
90	Military Psychology Podcast	Division 19	Science	33	Captivate	68
91	Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast	Digging a Hole Podcast	Science	80	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	پادکست فارسی امروز فهمیدم Emrooz Fahmidam	احمد صديق پور	Science	53	RedCircle	73
93	Podcast de Juan Ramón Rallo	Juan Ramón Rallo	Science	2257	Acast	28
94	Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)	Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof	Science	63	Podbean	31
95	Kohn's Zone	Alfie Kohn	Science	31	Blubrry	59
96	SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human	SAPIENS	Science	92	PRX	78
97	The Behavioral View	CentralReach	Science	67	Libsyn	63
98	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Science	19	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Care For We Podcast	Sarah Rasby, PhD	Science	6	RSS.com	42
100	The Abnormal Psychologist	Dr. Colby Taylor	Science	89	Buzzsprout	47

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in USA.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice