Work for hire

Work for hire - work subject to copyright that is created by an employee as part of their job. Article “Work for hire” in English Wikipedia has 64.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.4 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.

In June 2025 the article “Work for hire” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Work for hire”, its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 159 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 165 times in English Wikipedia and cited 397 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6245 in August 2002
• Global: #8956 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #64783 in April 2012
• Global: #93572 in April 2013

There are 6 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) Work for hire		64.5717
2	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		46.3176
3	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		15.9564
4	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		12.7979
5	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		8.3479
6	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		7.9535

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Work for hire" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Work for hire		1 472 276
2	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		529 696
3	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		43 557
4	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		29 361
5	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		6 877
6	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		2 342

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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 "Work for hire" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Work for hire		4 116
2	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		360
3	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		228
4	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		95
5	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		61
6	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		15

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Work for hire		109
2	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		32
3	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		7
4	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		7
5	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		3
6	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		1

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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 "Work for hire" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Work for hire		1
2	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		0
3	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		0
4	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		0
6	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		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 "Work for hire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Work for hire		165
2	Portuguese (pt) Prestação de serviços		143
3	Japanese (ja) 職務著作		75
4	Persian (fa) اثر سفارشی		7
5	Russian (ru) Авторское право на служебные произведения		5
6	Czech (cs) Zaměstnanecké dílo		2

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Zaměstnanecké dílo
en	English Work for hire
fa	Persian اثر سفارشی
ja	Japanese 職務著作
pt	Portuguese Prestação de serviços
ru	Russian Авторское право на служебные произведения

Best Rank

English: #64783 04.2012

Global: #93572 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #6245 08.2002

Global: #8956 08.2002

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