Political science

Quality:

Political science - scientific study of politics. Article "Political science" in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 52 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9902^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3944^th most popular in all topics.

The 4357^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8972^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Political science" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Political science", its content was written by 795 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3672 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4357^th place).

The article is cited 11258 times in English Wikipedia (1601^st place) and cited 65489 times in all languages (2416^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #113 in April 2002
• Global: #179 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3899 in June 2010
• Global: #1726 in April 2016

There are 53 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Political science		76.3502
2	Catalan (ca) Ciències polítiques		62.202
3	German (de) Politikwissenschaft		54.5
4	Dutch (nl) Politicologie		53.6208
5	Ukrainian (uk) Політологія		52.1085
6	Indonesian (id) Ilmu politik		49.9456
7	Uzbek (uz) Siyosatshunoslik		49.9226
8	Chinese (zh) 政治学		47.6914
9	Latin (la) Scientia civilis		45.5961
10	Persian (fa) علوم سیاسی		42.7033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political science		13 178 021
2	Spanish (es) Ciencia política		9 196 579
3	Russian (ru) Политология		3 362 963
4	Hindi (hi) राजनीति विज्ञान		2 682 666
5	Portuguese (pt) Ciência política		2 124 159
6	German (de) Politikwissenschaft		1 602 913
7	French (fr) Science politique		1 279 370
8	Polish (pl) Politologia		1 108 284
9	Arabic (ar) علوم سياسية		1 020 125
10	Thai (th) รัฐศาสตร์		990 433

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) Political science		56 891
2	Hindi (hi) राजनीति विज्ञान		14 956
3	Spanish (es) Ciencia política		12 171
4	French (fr) Science politique		6 267
5	Russian (ru) Политология		5 638
6	Persian (fa) علوم سیاسی		5 081
7	German (de) Politikwissenschaft		4 531
8	Arabic (ar) علوم سياسية		3 881
9	Thai (th) รัฐศาสตร์		3 466
10	Japanese (ja) 政治学		3 342

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political science		795
2	German (de) Politikwissenschaft		398
3	Spanish (es) Ciencia política		264
4	French (fr) Science politique		202
5	Russian (ru) Политология		193
6	Dutch (nl) Politicologie		122
7	Portuguese (pt) Ciência política		121
8	Norwegian (no) Statsvitenskap		88
9	Hebrew (he) מדע המדינה		79
10	Japanese (ja) 政治学		79

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) Political science		5
2	French (fr) Science politique		2
3	Serbian (sr) Политикологија		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Politologiya		1
5	Catalan (ca) Ciències polítiques		1
6	Persian (fa) علوم سیاسی		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Politikatudomány		1
8	Arabic (ar) علوم سياسية		0
9	Belarusian (be) Паліталогія		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Политология		0

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

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