Just war theory

Just war theory - doctrine about when a war is ethically just. Article “Just war theory” in English Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 78 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Just war theory” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Just war theory”, its content was written by 648 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1305 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1223 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2793 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2573 in September 2003
• Global: #5969 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19160 in April 2015
• Global: #28548 in March 2022

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Just war theory		72.5374
2	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		68.389
3	Spanish (es) Guerra justa		54.6885
4	Estonian (et) Õiglane sõda		37.7796
5	Japanese (ja) 正戦論		35.8375
6	Croatian (hr) Teorija pravednog rata		34.2272
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Teorija pravednog rata		30.201
8	Finnish (fi) Oikeutettu sota		28.9339
9	Indonesian (id) Teori perang yang benar		28.0904
10	Catalan (ca) Guerra justa		23.4473

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Just war theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Just war theory		4 830 583
2	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		672 645
3	Spanish (es) Guerra justa		381 431
4	French (fr) Guerre juste		274 348
5	Polish (pl) Wojna sprawiedliwa		243 271
6	Portuguese (pt) Doutrina da guerra justa		189 660
7	Russian (ru) Справедливая война		142 219
8	Japanese (ja) 正戦論		140 187
9	Indonesian (id) Teori perang yang benar		84 034
10	Italian (it) Guerra giusta (teologia)		80 892

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Just war theory" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Just war theory		19 283
2	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		1 857
3	French (fr) Guerre juste		900
4	Russian (ru) Справедливая война		879
5	Spanish (es) Guerra justa		733
6	Japanese (ja) 正戦論		593
7	Polish (pl) Wojna sprawiedliwa		507
8	Portuguese (pt) Doutrina da guerra justa		473
9	Italian (it) Guerra giusta (teologia)		451
10	Chinese (zh) 正義戰爭		438

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Just war theory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Just war theory		648
2	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		204
3	French (fr) Guerre juste		116
4	Spanish (es) Guerra justa		42
5	Russian (ru) Справедливая война		34
6	Japanese (ja) 正戦論		25
7	Polish (pl) Wojna sprawiedliwa		24
8	Portuguese (pt) Doutrina da guerra justa		24
9	Norwegian (no) Rettferdig krig		23
10	Chinese (zh) 正義戰爭		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Just war theory" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Just war theory		2
2	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		1
3	Persian (fa) نظریه جنگ مشروع		1
4	Croatian (hr) Teorija pravednog rata		1
5	Italian (it) Guerra giusta (teologia)		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Doutrina da guerra justa		1
7	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحرب العادلة		0
8	Catalan (ca) Guerra justa		0
9	Czech (cs) Spravedlivá válka		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Teorio de la justa milito		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Just war theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Just war theory		1 223
2	French (fr) Guerre juste		278
3	Chinese (zh) 正義戰爭		250
4	Portuguese (pt) Doutrina da guerra justa		166
5	Indonesian (id) Teori perang yang benar		133
6	German (de) Gerechter Krieg		120
7	Turkish (tr) Adil savaş teorisi		97
8	Spanish (es) Guerra justa		92
9	Finnish (fi) Oikeutettu sota		71
10	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحرب العادلة		46

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الحرب العادلة
ca	Catalan Guerra justa
cs	Czech Spravedlivá válka
de	German Gerechter Krieg
en	English Just war theory
eo	Esperanto Teorio de la justa milito
es	Spanish Guerra justa
et	Estonian Õiglane sõda
fa	Persian نظریه جنگ مشروع
fi	Finnish Oikeutettu sota
fr	French Guerre juste
gl	Galician Teoría da guerra xusta
hi	Hindi न्याय्य युद्ध
hr	Croatian Teorija pravednog rata
id	Indonesian Teori perang yang benar
it	Italian Guerra giusta (teologia)
ja	Japanese 正戦論
ko	Korean 옳은 전쟁론
no	Norwegian Rettferdig krig
pl	Polish Wojna sprawiedliwa
pt	Portuguese Doutrina da guerra justa
ru	Russian Справедливая война
sh	Serbo-Croatian Teorija pravednog rata
tr	Turkish Adil savaş teorisi
uk	Ukrainian Справедлива війна
zh	Chinese 正義戰爭

Best Rank

English: #19160 04.2015

Global: #28548 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #2573 09.2003

Global: #5969 05.2005

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