284K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.4K upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Never give your unpublished data or research ideas to AI models!
Put on my big girls pants and told my supervisor that I need a break because my mental health is in the toilet. With all the horror stories we hear a…
What talk you went to that made you want to react like that
Rarest sight in academia (research article based on mol bio on a journal with IF>4).
I got my PhD degree today. I feel absolutely NOTHING
When the journal asks for your ORCID but your affiliation is Mordor
I just quit my PhD
How it feels doing the final bits of my thesis
I'm starting my PhD this month!
I have successfully passed my dissertation proposal defense with flying colors
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/PhD, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.