Medium “Psychology” tag statistics
How busy the Psychology tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 797 stories from the last 1.9 days
Busier than 89% of 73 tracked tags
13% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 411 stories a day, Psychology is busier than 89% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (25,950 followers per daily story) is higher than 41% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
55% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 13% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 49% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.9 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Psychology stories
| Publication | Followers | Psychology stories (last 1.9d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 103 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 57 |
| No Time | 14K | 25 |
| Nudge | 858 | 21 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 21 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 19 |
| NEW LITERARY SOCIETY | 3.4K | 18 |
| Change Your Mind Change Your Life | 167K | 14 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 14 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 12 |
Top Psychology stories right now
- It’s Pathetic That These Five Words Have Become So American
- Do You Love Yourself Enough to Do Nothing?
- The day Wagner Moura put me on trial, and my nervous system found him guilty
- The School Mothers Knew My Snacks, Not My Life
- The Invisible Prison
- Love Does Not Look for Loopholes
- Men Are Calling the Woman Behind the Moon Landing a Fraud
- The Ultimate Freedom Is Being Freed From Ambition
- Does Your Child Feel Overwhelmed?
- In the Worst of Times, in Every Era, Creators Still Must Create
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Psychology tag on Medium?
- About 411 per day (2,880 per week), based on 797 stories published in the 1.9-day window before our last scan. The tag has 455,631 stories in total.
- Is the Psychology tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 89% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 25,950 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Psychology?
- 13% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 55% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.