Academic freedom

Academic freedom - liberty of educational institutions to decide courses and research, and of teachers to teach subjects, without outside coercion. Article “Academic freedom” in English Wikipedia has 83.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 165 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.41 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 “Academic freedom” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Academic freedom”, its content was written by 285 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 755 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 689 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12481 in October 2023
• Global: #25807 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #104204 in October 2010
• Global: #51232 in November 2014

There are 31 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) Academic freedom		83.7371
2	Indonesian (id) Kebebasan akademik		79.0664
3	Hebrew (he) חופש אקדמי		53.3904
4	Norwegian (no) Akademisk frihet		44.8772
5	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		44.1492
6	Chinese (zh) 学术自由		40.0359
7	Japanese (ja) 学問の自由		39.6022
8	French (fr) Liberté académique		37.8428
9	Ukrainian (uk) Академічна свобода		35.9854
10	Russian (ru) Академические свободы		35.0676

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Academic freedom" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Academic freedom		1 157 505
2	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		706 653
3	Japanese (ja) 学問の自由		435 046
4	German (de) Akademische Freiheit		131 818
5	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de cátedra		116 935
6	Russian (ru) Академические свободы		86 677
7	Chinese (zh) 学术自由		61 314
8	French (fr) Liberté académique		39 856
9	Ukrainian (uk) Академічна свобода		24 888
10	Finnish (fi) Akateeminen vapaus		21 876

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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 "Academic freedom" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Academic freedom		4 671
2	Japanese (ja) 学問の自由		898
3	German (de) Akademische Freiheit		586
4	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		490
5	Chinese (zh) 学术自由		274
6	French (fr) Liberté académique		254
7	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de cátedra		220
8	Indonesian (id) Kebebasan akademik		205
9	Russian (ru) Академические свободы		160
10	Norwegian (no) Akademisk frihet		102

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Academic freedom		285
2	German (de) Akademische Freiheit		73
3	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		62
4	Hebrew (he) חופש אקדמי		60
5	Japanese (ja) 学問の自由		36
6	French (fr) Liberté académique		34
7	Dutch (nl) Academische vrijheid		29
8	Russian (ru) Академические свободы		24
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tự do học thuật		21
10	Finnish (fi) Akateeminen vapaus		17

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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 "Academic freedom" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Academic freedom		3
2	Hebrew (he) חופש אקדמי		1
3	Dutch (nl) Academische vrijheid		1
4	Russian (ru) Академические свободы		1
5	Arabic (ar) الحرية الأكاديمية		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llibertat acadèmica		0
7	Czech (cs) Akademická svoboda		0
8	German (de) Akademische Freiheit		0
9	Greek (el) Ακαδημαϊκή ελευθερία		0
10	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		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 "Academic freedom" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Academic freedom		689
2	Japanese (ja) 学問の自由		204
3	Chinese (zh) 学术自由		182
4	Arabic (ar) الحرية الأكاديمية		173
5	German (de) Akademische Freiheit		162
6	Hebrew (he) חופש אקדמי		150
7	Indonesian (id) Kebebasan akademik		127
8	Spanish (es) Libertad académica		99
9	French (fr) Liberté académique		67
10	Persian (fa) آزادی دانشگاهی		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحرية الأكاديمية
ca	Catalan Llibertat acadèmica
cs	Czech Akademická svoboda
de	German Akademische Freiheit
el	Greek Ακαδημαϊκή ελευθερία
en	English Academic freedom
es	Spanish Libertad académica
et	Estonian Akadeemiline vabadus
eu	Basque Akademia-askatasun
fa	Persian آزادی دانشگاهی
fi	Finnish Akateeminen vapaus
fr	French Liberté académique
he	Hebrew חופש אקדמי
hi	Hindi अकादमिक स्वतंत्रता
id	Indonesian Kebebasan akademik
ja	Japanese 学問の自由
ka	Georgian აკადემიური თავისუფლება
ko	Korean 학문의 자유
la	Latin Libertas philosophandi
ms	Malay Kebebasan akademik
nl	Dutch Academische vrijheid
no	Norwegian Akademisk frihet
pt	Portuguese Liberdade de cátedra
ru	Russian Академические свободы
sl	Slovenian Akademska svoboda
sr	Serbian Академске слободе
sv	Swedish Akademisk frihet
uk	Ukrainian Академічна свобода
ur	Urdu درسی آزادی
vi	Vietnamese Tự do học thuật
zh	Chinese 学术自由

Best Rank

English: #104204 10.2010

Global: #51232 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #12481 10.2023

Global: #25807 02.2020

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