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 24 Apr 2025

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04/24/2025

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Episodes: 253

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:46:24

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. Mercatus Center at George Mason University (2 shows)

3. Marshall Poe (2 shows)

4. Shane Birkel (1 shows)

5. VoxTalks (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (23 shows)

2. Buzzsprout (10 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1359	Megaphone	58
3	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
4	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
5	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
6	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
7	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
8	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
9	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
10	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	71	Megaphone	53
11	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
12	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
13	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
14	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
15	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	306	Libsyn	52
16	The Pie: An Economics Podcast	Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago	Science	138	Megaphone	48
17	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	383	Audioboom	63
18	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
19	ABA Inside Track	ABA Inside Track	Science	617	Libsyn	58
20	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	280	Megaphone	38
21	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
22	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
23	Jung Chicago Radio	C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago	Science	151	Blubrry	59
24	The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria	Matt Cicoria	Science	342	Libsyn	47
25	Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity	The Brookings Institution	Science	47	Libsyn	47
26	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
27	Sekke Podcast \| پادکست سکه	mehdi naji	Science	122	Acast	42
29	SuperHumanizer Podcast	Dr. Hani Chaabo & Katie Bogen	Science	25	Buzzsprout	73
30	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	327	Unknown	48
31	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
32	Templeton Ideas Podcast	John Templeton Foundation	Science	87	Libsyn	72
33	NASW Social Work Talks	National Association of Social Workers (NASW)	Science	151	Libsyn	58
34	The Social Work Podcast	Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW	Science	157	Unknown	43
35	SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human	SAPIENS	Science	92	PRX	78
36	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	201	Libsyn	48
37	Psychology Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Yale School of Medicine	Social Sciences	12	N/A	N/A
38	The Social-Engineer Podcast	Social-Engineer, LLC	Science	200	Libsyn	57
39	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
40	PIIE Insider LIVE	Peterson Institute for International Economics	Science	22	Libsyn	58
41	پادکست فارسی امروز فهمیدم Emrooz Fahmidam	احمد صديق پور	Science	53	RedCircle	73
42	Dark Side Of Psychology	Dr. Elio Martino	Science	11	Podomatic	N/A
43	一口經濟學 bitesize economics	Charles Liao	Science	201	Spotify for Podcasters	38
44	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
45	One in Ten	National Children's Alliance	Science	151	Buzzsprout	73
46	Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function	Sucheta Kamath	Science	210	Buzzsprout	68
47	Inquiring Minds	Indre Viskontas	Science	461	Simplecast	43
48	UCLA Housing Voice Details temporarily unavailable	UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies	Science	130	Buzzsprout	78
49	New Books in Economics	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	69
50	The Human Behavior Podcast	The Human Behavior Podcast	Science	293	Buzzsprout	52
51	Blurry Photos	David Flora	Science	424	Spreaker	49
52	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
53	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
54	Therapy 101	JL McVey	Science	12	RSS.com	63
55	VoxTalks Economics	VoxTalks	Science	487	Audioboom	63
56	Ideas of India	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	172	Libsyn	58
57	The Litigation Psychology Podcast	Courtroom Sciences	Science	333	Podbean	37
58	'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Science	429	Audioboom	38
59	Sociology Ruins Everything	Matt Sedlar	Science	26	Spotify for Podcasters	42
60	Reverse Psychology	Reverse PsychCast	Science	10	Pinecast	79
61	Neuropsych on the Mic	Society for Clinical Neuropsychology	Science	5	Libsyn	58
62	New Books in Anthropology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
63	Misguided: The Podcast	Matthew Facciani	Science	24	Substack	48
64	Philosophy	Cambridge University	Social Sciences	3	Unknown	49
65	New Books in Gender	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	69
66	Scott Carney Investigates	Scott Carney	Science	102	Spotify for Podcasters	32
67	The Medical Mind Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychiatric Association	Science	95	Libsyn	49
68	Queens of Social Work	Queen P, LCSW & Queen H, LCSW	Science	97	Buzzsprout	78
69	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
70	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	135	Fireside	48
71	Aporia Podcast	Aporia Magazine	Science	152	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	The Thoughtful Counselor	The Thoughful Counselor Team	Science	320	Libsyn	38
73	Questions du soir : l'idée Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Social Sciences	22	N/A	N/A
74	Converging Dialogues	Converging Dialogues	Science	511	Substack	53
75	The BRAVE OT Podcast \| Real Conversations with Occupational Therapy Trailblazers	Carlyn Neek - OT Entrepreneur Coach, Educator, Founder of ACTivate Vitality	Science	59	Libsyn	73
76	Behaviour Speak with Ben Reiman	Ben Reiman	Science	301	Podbean	52
77	VoxDev Development Economics	VoxDev.org	Science	348	Audioboom	52
78	Quantitude	Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran	Science	202	Buzzsprout	78
79	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales	Science	19	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	The Perception & Action Podcast	Rob Gray	Science	597	Libsyn	37
81	Háblame de Ciencia	Universidad de Guadalajara	Science	102	Audioboom	58
82	BJKS Podcast	Benjamin James Kuper-Smith	Science	119	Buzzsprout	42
83	Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast	Digging a Hole Podcast	Science	82	Spotify for Podcasters	27
84	Under the Cortex	psychologicalscience	Science	100	Podbean	53
85	Beautiful Humans: The Social ChangeCast	Beautiful Humans	Science	37	Captivate	42
86	Dead Rabbit Radio The Daily Paranormal Podcast	Jason Carpenter	Science	1595	Libsyn	57
87	گوش نیوش های دکتر شیری Details temporarily unavailable	Dr. Shiri	Science & Medicine	191	Unknown	33
88	ABA on Call	CentralReach	Science	79	Libsyn	68
89	Talking Humanitarianism	Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies	Science	28	Spotify for Podcasters	33
90	The Skeptic Zone	Richard Saunders	Science	943	Libsyn	49
91	Flip Your Lid with Kim Honeycutt	Kim Honeycutt, MSW, LCSW, CCFC, LCAS	Science	63	Captivate	68
92	From the Spectrum: Finding Superpowers with Autism	Ryan Sumner	Science	145	RSS.com	52
93	New Books in Sociology	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	69
94	AEA Research Highlights	American Economic Association	Science	100	Libsyn	58
95	World Bank Group │ What Have We Learned? The Evaluation Podcast	World Bank Group / Independent Evaluation Group	Science	27	Podbean	31
96	Grey Dynamics	Grey Dynamics	Science	79	Acast	89
97	洪晃\|晃然大悟	洪晃\|晃然大悟	Science	213	lizhi.fm	38
98	The Leading Voices in Food	Duke World Food Policy Center	Science	293	Libsyn	72
99	The Sociology Show	Matthew Wilkin	Science	213	Spreaker	43
100	Century Lives	Stanford Center on Longevity	Science	78	Megaphone	59

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