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VoiceRankVoiceRank: one 0-100 measure of how strong a podcast booking someone is, built from four signals (Presence, Reach, Pull and Authority), each ranked against every other rated voice. Recomputed nightly; the arrow is the week-over-week change.
67Up 24 since last week
Top 23% of rated voices
How consistently they actually get booked: guest spots on shows they don't host, with recent ones counting for more. They are ahead of 66% of rated voices on it.66
How many people hear them on YouTube: total views across the episodes they guest on. YouTube alone, because no other platform publishes per-episode plays. They are ahead of 78% of rated voices on it.78
Whether the audience turns out for them: how the episodes they appear on perform against that show's own average. They are ahead of 70% of rated voices on it.70
How central they are to the conversation: who they appear alongside in the guest network, and how connected those people are in turn. They are ahead of 54% of rated voices on it.54
Appearances
5
guest spots
Guest shows
4
excl. their own
Total views
3.0M
every episode
Last guested
1mo ago
Aug 31, 2026
View lift
Audience impactEpisodes with Jim earn 1.1× the show’s typical views. View lift compares their episodes with each show’s own average (1.0×), weighted by episode count. It reports how those episodes did, not what caused it.
1.1×5 appearances on 4 shows
Similar people
Who else fitsPeople booked by the same shows as Jim Al-Khalili and tagged on the same topics. Further right means more shared shows, higher means more shared topics, measured against the other matches here: the top and right edges are this list’s strongest, and the axes start at none shared. A guest spot counts half as much for each year since it aired. Direct comps lead on both; Same circuit leans on the shows; Fresh angle leans on the topics, from shows Jim Al-Khalili hasn’t done.
Actively guestingNo guest spot in 12 months
Covers the same topics5 of 7 topics
Recent guest spots
Top matches
1VoiceRank 84
2 of 4 shows · 5 of 7 topics
SciFri · 7mo ago
2VoiceRank 54
1 of 4 shows · 3 of 7 topics
StarTalk · 1w ago
3VoiceRank 79
1 of 4 shows · 1 of 7 topics
Danny Jones · 1mo ago
4VoiceRank 46
2 of 4 shows · 0 of 7 topics
Big Think · 2mo ago
5VoiceRank 41
1 of 4 shows · 3 of 7 topics
Julian Dorey Daily · 1mo ago
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