The Cost of Knowledge

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The Cost of Knowledge

Quality:

The Cost of Knowledge - Protest movement against research publishing house Elsevier and for open science. Article “The Cost of Knowledge” in German Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Cost of Knowledge”, its content was written by 32 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in German Wikipedia and cited 230 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1083 in April 2012
  • Global: #67130 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #315680 in April 2012
  • Global: #403283 in June 2016

There are 11 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
1English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
57.7222
2Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
49.2874
3Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
44.6989
4Romanian (ro)
Costul cunoașterii
41.5812
5Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
39.1761
6Chinese (zh)
知識的代價
37.7054
7Arabic (ar)
تكلفة المعرفة
37.2595
8Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
34.9278
9Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
30.7291
10German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
22.9269
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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 "The Cost of Knowledge" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
169 548
2Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
18 335
3German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
12 486
4Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
9 568
5Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
4 918
6Chinese (zh)
知識的代價
4 690
7French (fr)
The Cost of Knowledge
4 392
8Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
1 052
9Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
658
10Arabic (ar)
تكلفة المعرفة
233
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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 "The Cost of Knowledge" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
724
2Chinese (zh)
知識的代價
76
3Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
66
4Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
38
5French (fr)
The Cost of Knowledge
32
6German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
26
7Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
23
8Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
22
9Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
11
10Arabic (ar)
تكلفة المعرفة
6
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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 "The Cost of Knowledge" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
62
2German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
32
3Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
25
4Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
10
5Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
9
6Chinese (zh)
知識的代價
9
7French (fr)
The Cost of Knowledge
7
8Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
7
9Arabic (ar)
تكلفة المعرفة
4
10Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
3
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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 "The Cost of Knowledge" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
1
2Arabic (ar)
تكلفة المعرفة
0
3German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
4English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
5Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
6French (fr)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
7Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
8Romanian (ro)
Costul cunoașterii
0
9Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
0
10Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
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 "The Cost of Knowledge" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Cost of Knowledge
144
2Romanian (ro)
Costul cunoașterii
31
3Japanese (ja)
知識の代償
17
4Chinese (zh)
知識的代價
13
5Italian (it)
The Cost of Knowledge
7
6French (fr)
The Cost of Knowledge
6
7Russian (ru)
The Cost of Knowledge
4
8German (de)
The Cost of Knowledge
3
9Thai (th)
ค่าความรู้
3
10Spanish (es)
The Cost of Knowledge
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تكلفة المعرفة
deGerman
The Cost of Knowledge
enEnglish
The Cost of Knowledge
esSpanish
The Cost of Knowledge
frFrench
The Cost of Knowledge
itItalian
The Cost of Knowledge
jaJapanese
知識の代償
roRomanian
Costul cunoașterii
ruRussian
The Cost of Knowledge
thThai
ค่าความรู้
zhChinese
知識的代價

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#315680
04.2012
Global:
#403283
06.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1083
04.2012
Global:
#67130
02.2012

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Cost of Knowledge from Wikipedia articles about Elsevier, Timothy Gowers, Serials crisis, RELX and Jiří Matoušek. Whereas reading the article about The Cost of Knowledge people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Elsevier, Serials crisis, Research Works Act, Timothy Gowers and Topology.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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