Precautionary principle

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Precautionary principle

Quality:

Precautionary principle - risk management strategy emphasizing caution in scientific proceedings. Article “Precautionary principle” in English Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 101 references and 16 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Precautionary principle” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Precautionary principle”, its content was written by 344 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 944 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 383 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #88 in April 2002
  • Global: #116 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #36610 in April 2015
  • Global: #28071 in February 2015

There are 28 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип обережності
72.0597
2English (en)
Precautionary principle
69.2881
3French (fr)
Principe de précaution
52.6408
4Thai (th)
หลักระวังไว้ก่อน
47.7078
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
46.1309
6Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
32.0444
7Basque (eu)
Zuhurtasun printzipio
28.6211
8Finnish (fi)
Varovaisuusperiaate
26.0657
9Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
23.812
10Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
20.083
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
2 554 935
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
1 006 113
3Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
983 552
4Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
235 752
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
197 740
6Japanese (ja)
予防原則
146 350
7Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
125 574
8Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
109 453
9Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
74 185
10Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da precaução
73 421
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
5 563
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
1 477
3Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
360
4German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
344
5Japanese (ja)
予防原則
317
6Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
274
7Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
167
8Chinese (zh)
預防原則
128
9Korean (ko)
사전예방원칙
76
10Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da precaução
71
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
344
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
197
3German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
75
4Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
60
5Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
55
6Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
30
7Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
26
8Polish (pl)
Zasada ostrożności (etyka)
20
9Japanese (ja)
予防原則
19
10Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
18
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
2
2Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
1
3Hebrew (he)
זהירות מונעת
1
4Catalan (ca)
Principi de precaució
0
5Czech (cs)
Předběžná opatrnost
0
6Danish (da)
Forsigtighedsprincippet
0
7German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Principo de antaŭzorgo
0
9Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
0
10Estonian (et)
Ettevaatuspõhimõte
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
383
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
377
3Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
195
4Japanese (ja)
予防原則
171
5Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип обережності
156
6German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
75
7Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
65
8Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
61
9Chinese (zh)
預防原則
59
10Persian (fa)
اصل احتیاطی
39
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ وقائي
caCatalan
Principi de precaució
csCzech
Předběžná opatrnost
daDanish
Forsigtighedsprincippet
deGerman
Vorsorgeprinzip
enEnglish
Precautionary principle
eoEsperanto
Principo de antaŭzorgo
esSpanish
Principio de precaución
etEstonian
Ettevaatuspõhimõte
euBasque
Zuhurtasun printzipio
faPersian
اصل احتیاطی
fiFinnish
Varovaisuusperiaate
frFrench
Principe de précaution
glGalician
Principio de precaución
heHebrew
זהירות מונעת
idIndonesian
Asas kehati-hatian
itItalian
Principio di precauzione
jaJapanese
予防原則
koKorean
사전예방원칙
nlDutch
Voorzorgsprincipe
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Føre var-prinsippet
noNorwegian
Føre-var-prinsippet
plPolish
Zasada ostrożności (etyka)
ptPortuguese
Princípio da precaução
svSwedish
Försiktighetsprincipen
thThai
หลักระวังไว้ก่อน
ukUkrainian
Принцип обережності
zhChinese
預防原則

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#36610
04.2015
Global:
#28071
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#88
04.2002
Global:
#116
04.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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