The Bell Curve

Quality:

The Bell Curve - 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. This book is the 781^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 452^nd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Bell Curve” in English Wikipedia has 64.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 98 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.12 points.

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 452^nd most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 781^st most popular in books.

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

Since the creation of article “The Bell Curve”, its content was written by 528 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 856 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Bell Curve is on the 452^nd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 781^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 728 times in English Wikipedia and cited 870 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #238 in December 2001
• Global: #253 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4328 in March 2017
• Global: #12847 in March 2017

There are 16 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) The Bell Curve		64.1063
2	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		61.2272
3	German (de) The Bell Curve		35.4106
4	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		32.3647
5	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		31.5797
6	Persian (fa) منحنی زنگوله‌ای		21.575
7	Ukrainian (uk) The Bell Curve		21.5698
8	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		21.5167
9	French (fr) The Bell Curve		17.2455
10	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		15.6971

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bell Curve		5 767 374
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		225 623
3	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		105 556
4	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		105 325
5	French (fr) The Bell Curve		94 984
6	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		61 071
7	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		54 129
8	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		52 758
9	Chinese (zh) 鐘形曲線：美國社會中的智力與階層結構		28 285
10	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		24 168

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) The Bell Curve		17 831
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		979
3	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		436
4	French (fr) The Bell Curve		362
5	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		317
6	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		274
7	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		226
8	Chinese (zh) 鐘形曲線：美國社會中的智力與階層結構		169
9	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		156
10	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		124

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Bell Curve		528
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		114
3	French (fr) The Bell Curve		31
4	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		31
5	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		28
6	Norwegian (no) The Bell Curve		24
7	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		20
8	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		19
9	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		16
10	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		14

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) The Bell Curve		3
2	French (fr) The Bell Curve		1
3	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		0
4	German (de) The Bell Curve		0
5	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		0
6	Persian (fa) منحنی زنگوله‌ای		0
7	Finnish (fi) The Bell Curve		0
8	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		0
9	Korean (ko) 벨 커브		0
10	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		0

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

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