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r/researchNSFW

64.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.6K upvotes, which works out to 25 per 1,000 members.

25peak upvotes per 1,000 members
64.8Kmembers
1.6Kbest post
196most comments
173posts we track

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What actually lands here

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.

46% 34% 14%
Text 46% Question 34% Image 14% Link 4% Video 1% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

This is horrible Science Direct!

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 196 image 2024

A friendly word to the "high school researchers"

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 129 text 2026

Your brain is the most powerful drug you will ever take

↑ 614 πŸ’¬ 29 image 2026

AI slop in Nature

↑ 336 πŸ’¬ 54 image 2025

Stop. Don’t Submit.

↑ 312 πŸ’¬ 45 text 2025

Young researchers: you need a mentor, not reddditors

↑ 296 πŸ’¬ 53 text 2026

Is peer review doomed?

↑ 252 πŸ’¬ 37 image 2025

can we please do something to limit the β€œhow can i publish a paper in high school?” posts? it’s getting a bit tedious

↑ 241 πŸ’¬ 55 question 2026

I am a young researcher and I have rejected all the articles I’ve peer reviewed. I feel like I’m going insane.

↑ 234 πŸ’¬ 45 text 2026

5 reviewers (3 accept, 1 minor revision, 1 reject with dumb reviews) = Editor decision: major review

↑ 228 πŸ’¬ 18 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/research, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.