Medium “Science” tag statistics
How busy the Science tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 9.8 days
Busier than 51% of 73 tracked tags
14% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 82 stories a day, Science is busier than 51% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (110,174 followers per daily story) is higher than 92% of tags — more readers per story than average.
56% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 14% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 48% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Science stories
| Publication | Followers | Science stories (last 9.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 29 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 17 |
| Science Spectrum | 51K | 13 |
| ThinkArt | 11K | 9 |
| Health and Science | 8.6K | 9 |
| The Quantastic Journal | 47K | 8 |
| The Academic | 26K | 8 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 6 |
| Southern Winds | 35K | 5 |
| Predict | 116K | 5 |
Top Science stories right now
- The Drug We Drink Every Morning Without Even Thinking About It
- The $10 Pre-Paid SIM Card That Wiped Out 20 Senior Russian Officers
- When Thinking Feels Expensive: The Science Behind Brain Fog, Neuroinflammation, and Cognitive Aging
- Hapatitus :
- Robots Among Us:
- The CIA Studied Meditation During the Cold War
- What A Pringle Can Teach You About The Hessian Matrix
- The Rocks That Move When Nobody Is Watching
- So, You Want To Study Mathematics?
- World Migratory Bird Day 2026: Every Bird Counts — Your Observations Matter!
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Science tag on Medium?
- About 82 per day (571 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 9.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 182,473 stories in total.
- Is the Science tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 51% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 110,174 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Science?
- 14% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 56% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.