Karl Popper

Quality:

Karl Popper - Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994). This person is the 3051^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Karl Popper” in German Wikipedia has 80.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 78 references and 32 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 7605^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 2088^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3845^th most popular in AI.

The 3051^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6690^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Karl Popper” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6690^th place).

Since the creation of article “Karl Popper”, its content was written by 486 registered users of German Wikipedia (2088^th place) and edited by 4003 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3845^th place).

Karl Popper is on the 3051^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 595 times in German Wikipedia and cited 11479 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #52 in January 2002
• Global: #90 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2562 in November 2015
• Global: #5646 in September 2009

There are 49 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) Karl Popper		90.5851
2	Georgian (ka) კარლ პოპერი		86.7832
3	German (de) Karl Popper		80.715
4	Norwegian (no) Karl Popper		80.5098
5	Estonian (et) Karl Popper		60.5401
6	Tamil (ta) கார்ல் பொப்பர்		58.0542
7	Russian (ru) Поппер, Карл		55.2316
8	Swedish (sv) Karl Popper		54.4734
9	Arabic (ar) كارل بوبر		53.5829
10	Greek (el) Καρλ Πόπερ		53.0375

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Karl Popper		7 624 913
2	Spanish (es) Karl Popper		4 037 652
3	German (de) Karl Popper		2 624 577
4	Italian (it) Karl Popper		1 709 988
5	Portuguese (pt) Karl Popper		1 402 754
6	French (fr) Karl Popper		1 361 489
7	Russian (ru) Поппер, Карл		1 336 800
8	Polish (pl) Karl Popper		639 163
9	Japanese (ja) カール・ポパー		576 978
10	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·波普尔		486 093

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) Karl Popper		31 584
2	German (de) Karl Popper		7 392
3	Spanish (es) Karl Popper		6 528
4	Italian (it) Karl Popper		4 862
5	Russian (ru) Поппер, Карл		4 349
6	French (fr) Karl Popper		3 925
7	Japanese (ja) カール・ポパー		3 006
8	Portuguese (pt) Karl Popper		2 699
9	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·波普尔		2 102
10	Polish (pl) Karl Popper		1 848

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Karl Popper		845
2	German (de) Karl Popper		486
3	French (fr) Karl Popper		349
4	Spanish (es) Karl Popper		203
5	Italian (it) Karl Popper		195
6	Russian (ru) Поппер, Карл		151
7	Dutch (nl) Karl Popper		129
8	Hebrew (he) קרל פופר		120
9	Portuguese (pt) Karl Popper		108
10	Japanese (ja) カール・ポパー		86

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) Karl Popper		6
2	German (de) Karl Popper		2
3	French (fr) Karl Popper		2
4	Dutch (nl) Karl Popper		2
5	Serbian (sr) Карл Попер		2
6	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·波普尔		2
7	Arabic (ar) كارل بوبر		1
8	Hebrew (he) קרל פופר		1
9	Croatian (hr) Karl Popper		1
10	Japanese (ja) カール・ポパー		1

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

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