Popular science

Popular science - interpretation of science intended for a general audience. Article “Popular science” in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.65 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Popular science” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Popular science”, its content was written by 273 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1435 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 978 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8564 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12453 in July 2004
• Global: #8709 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #41831 in March 2014
• Global: #5179 in March 2015

There are 38 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	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		51.7524
2	French (fr) Vulgarisation		44.598
3	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		44.2806
4	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		42.1868
5	Ukrainian (uk) Популяризація науки		41.004
6	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		34.6501
7	Turkish (tr) Popüler bilim		34.1007
8	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		33.7955
9	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		31.9893
10	English (en) Popular science		31.3809

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Popular science" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		6 275 112
2	English (en) Popular science		1 384 192
3	French (fr) Vulgarisation		755 269
4	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		410 455
5	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		399 431
6	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		304 893
7	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		231 223
8	Swedish (sv) Populärvetenskap		86 283
9	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		67 072
10	Finnish (fi) Tieteen yleistajuistaminen		57 034

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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 "Popular science" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Popular science		4 838
2	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		2 413
3	French (fr) Vulgarisation		1 452
4	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		1 101
5	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		769
6	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		616
7	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		424
8	Simple English (simple) Popular science		288
9	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		195
10	Japanese (ja) 通俗科学		177

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Popular science		273
2	French (fr) Vulgarisation		218
3	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		195
4	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		116
5	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		83
6	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		77
7	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		53
8	Hebrew (he) מדע פופולרי		48
9	Dutch (nl) Populaire wetenschap		48
10	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		34

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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 "Popular science" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Popular science		3
2	Hebrew (he) מדע פופולרי		1
3	Arabic (ar) علم شعبي		0
4	Belarusian (be) Папулярызацыя навукі		0
5	Catalan (ca) Divulgació científica		0
6	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		0
7	Danish (da) Populærvidenskab		0
8	German (de) Wissenschaftspopularisierung		0
9	Greek (el) Εκλαΐκευση της επιστήμης		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Scienca popularigo		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 "Popular science" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Vulgarisation		1 340
2	English (en) Popular science		978
3	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		834
4	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		662
5	Esperanto (eo) Scienca popularigo		607
6	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		513
7	Swedish (sv) Populärvetenskap		437
8	Hebrew (he) מדע פופולרי		366
9	Catalan (ca) Divulgació científica		280
10	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		257

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic علم شعبي
be	Belarusian Папулярызацыя навукі
ca	Catalan Divulgació científica
cs	Czech Popularizace vědy
da	Danish Populærvidenskab
de	German Wissenschaftspopularisierung
el	Greek Εκλαΐκευση της επιστήμης
en	English Popular science
eo	Esperanto Scienca popularigo
es	Spanish Divulgación científica
et	Estonian Populaarteaduslik kirjandus
eu	Basque Dibulgazio
fa	Persian علم به زبان ساده
fi	Finnish Tieteen yleistajuistaminen
fr	French Vulgarisation
gl	Galician Divulgación científica
he	Hebrew מדע פופולרי
hi	Hindi लोकप्रिय विज्ञान
hy	Armenian Գիտության հանրամատչելիացում
id	Indonesian Ilmiah populer
it	Italian Divulgazione scientifica
ja	Japanese 通俗科学
ko	Korean 통속과학
ms	Malay Sains popular
nl	Dutch Populaire wetenschap
no	Norwegian Populærvitenskap
pl	Polish Popularyzacja nauki
pt	Portuguese Divulgação científica
ro	Romanian Popularizarea științei
ru	Russian Популяризация науки
simple	Simple English Popular science
sr	Serbian Популарна наука
sv	Swedish Populärvetenskap
tr	Turkish Popüler bilim
uk	Ukrainian Популяризація науки
vi	Vietnamese Khoa học thường thức
zh	Chinese 大众科学
zhminnan	Min Nan Thong-sio̍k kho-ha̍k

Best Rank

English: #41831 03.2014

Global: #5179 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #12453 07.2004

Global: #8709 11.2013

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