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 69.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). 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 July 2024 the article "Precautionary principle" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Precautionary principle", its content was written by 338 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 913 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 376 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #87 in April 2002
  • Global: #115 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #36624 in April 2015
  • Global: #28097 in February 2015

There are 27 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип обережності
74.109
2English (en)
Precautionary principle
69.545
3French (fr)
Principe de précaution
52.7744
4Thai (th)
หลักระวังไว้ก่อน
48.6636
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
35.1188
6Basque (eu)
Zuhurtasun printzipio
28.7168
7Finnish (fi)
Varovaisuusperiaate
25.2927
8Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
23.952
9Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
20.1592
10Polish (pl)
Zasada ostrożności (etyka)
19.8737
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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
2 504 856
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
985 186
3Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
976 639
4Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
231 388
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
193 197
6Japanese (ja)
予防原則
143 295
7Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
123 739
8Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
108 198
9Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
72 447
10Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da precaução
72 446
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Precautionary principle
4 386
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
1 312
3Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
622
4Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
435
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
386
6Japanese (ja)
予防原則
241
7Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
151
8Hebrew (he)
זהירות מונעת
116
9Chinese (zh)
預防原則
114
10Finnish (fi)
Varovaisuusperiaate
86
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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
338
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
193
3German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
69
4Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
57
5Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
54
6Dutch (nl)
Voorzorgsprincipe
29
7Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
26
8Polish (pl)
Zasada ostrożności (etyka)
19
9Japanese (ja)
予防原則
18
10Swedish (sv)
Försiktighetsprincipen
17
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Precautionary principle" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Principi de precaució
1
2English (en)
Precautionary principle
1
3Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
0
4Czech (cs)
Předběžná opatrnost
0
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Principo de antaŭzorgo
0
7Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
0
8Estonian (et)
Ettevaatuspõhimõte
0
9Basque (eu)
Zuhurtasun printzipio
0
10Persian (fa)
اصل احتیاطی
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
376
2French (fr)
Principe de précaution
365
3Japanese (ja)
予防原則
170
4Arabic (ar)
مبدأ وقائي
85
5German (de)
Vorsorgeprinzip
73
6Spanish (es)
Principio de precaución
60
7Norwegian (no)
Føre-var-prinsippet
60
8Chinese (zh)
預防原則
54
9Persian (fa)
اصل احتیاطی
37
10Italian (it)
Principio di precauzione
36
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ وقائي
caCatalan
Principi de precaució
csCzech
Předběžná opatrnost
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:
#36624
04.2015
Global:
#28097
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#87
04.2002
Global:
#115
04.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Precautionary principle from Wikipedia articles about Neo-Luddism, Murphys law, Charter for the Environment, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Whereas reading the article about Precautionary principle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Epistemology, Earth Summit, Contaminated haemophilia blood products, Wikipedia article and Factor of safety.

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