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Welcome to r/AskSocialScience! The goal of AskSocialScience is to provide great answers to social science questions, based on solid theory, practice, and research. Prior to posting, please review the r/AskSocialScience Rules in the sidebar

225k subscribers101 posts / mo in Sep 202686 authors / mosince 2011

r/AskSocialScience has 225k members (+13% over the last 12 months). It gets about 101 posts a month from 86 people. Top topics: Fertility Rates Trends, Educational Inequality and Research Reading Strategies.

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Size and growth

How r/AskSocialScience has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+13%in 12 months · +1.7% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026225k
Growing225k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−59%vs Sep 2025 · +3.1% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026101
QuieterPeaked at 277 in Oct 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/AskSocialScience

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Fertility Rates Trends0.1%
  2. Educational Inequality0.1%
  3. Research Reading Strategies0.1%
  4. College Degrees & Graduates<0.1%
  5. Slavery History<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. JSTOR
  2. Doi
  3. ScienceDirect
  4. cambridge.org
  5. Springer

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research