Operation Paperclip

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Operation Paperclip - secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government. This event is the 358^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 204^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Paperclip” in English Wikipedia has 88 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 92 references and 15 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 204^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 358^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8356^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Operation Paperclip” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Paperclip”, its content was written by 532 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1405 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Paperclip is on the 204^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 358^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1601 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6410 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1341 in June 2003
• Global: #4567 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #624 in March 2020
• Global: #1490 in March 2020

There are 36 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) Operation Paperclip		88.0352
2	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Συνδετήρας		76.6592
3	Danish (da) Operation Paperclip		71.6388
4	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		60.9924
5	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		60.7
6	Hungarian (hu) Gemkapocs művelet		60.4816
7	Catalan (ca) Operació Paperclip		54.6318
8	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		49.8239
9	German (de) Operation Overcast		48.2282
10	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		45.2393

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		13 469 463
2	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		868 178
3	German (de) Operation Overcast		786 284
4	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		677 122
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		488 388
6	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		397 195
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Paperclip		349 466
8	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		314 585
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		267 607
10	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		186 027

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		75 808
2	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		3 011
3	German (de) Operation Overcast		2 995
4	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		2 786
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		2 302
6	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		1 817
7	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		1 496
8	Polish (pl) Operacja Paperclip		1 460
9	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		1 425
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		1 284

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		532
2	German (de) Operation Overcast		169
3	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		112
4	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		73
5	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		63
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		44
7	Norwegian (no) Operasjon Paperclip		37
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע מהדק נייר		33
9	Dutch (nl) Operatie Paperclip		30
10	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		29

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		2
2	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		1
3	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		1
4	Korean (ko) 페이퍼클립 작전		1
5	Dutch (nl) Operatie Paperclip		1
6	Polish (pl) Operacja Paperclip		1
7	Serbian (sr) Операција Спајалица		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Скріпка»		1
9	Arabic (ar) عملية مشبك الورق		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Sancaq əməliyyatı		0

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

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