Action theory (philosophy)

Action theory - area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind. This area of thought involves epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, jurisprudence, and philosophy of mind. Article “Action theory (philosophy)” in English Wikipedia has 10.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.56 points.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Action theory (philosophy)”, its content was written by 126 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 392 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 583 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2696 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #317 in April 2002
• Global: #465 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137041 in November 2014
• Global: #165601 in November 2014

There are 18 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	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da ação		30.7144
2	Estonian (et) Tegevusfilosoofia		30.7131
3	Russian (ru) Теория действия (философия)		12.2814
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de la acción (filosofía)		11.9416
5	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		10.5828
6	Uzbek (uz) Harakat nazariyasi (falsafa)		10.4803
7	Japanese (ja) 行為の哲学		9.8462
8	Finnish (fi) Teonfilosofia		9.5382
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)		9.136
10	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		8.8507

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Action theory (philosophy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		688 498
2	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		134 060
3	French (fr) Philosophie de l'action		129 588
4	Chinese (zh) 行動理論		42 297
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)		40 506
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da ação		34 300
7	Russian (ru) Теория действия (философия)		33 362
8	Swedish (sv) Handlingsteori		30 103
9	Dutch (nl) Handelingstheorie		20 008
10	Persian (fa) نظریه کنش (فلسفه)		17 052

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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 "Action theory (philosophy)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		2 096
2	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		251
3	French (fr) Philosophie de l'action		240
4	Japanese (ja) 行為の哲学		226
5	Simple English (simple) Action theory		215
6	Chinese (zh) 行動理論		183
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da ação		129
8	Spanish (es) Teoría de la acción (filosofía)		124
9	Russian (ru) Теория действия (философия)		99
10	Uzbek (uz) Harakat nazariyasi (falsafa)		54

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		126
2	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		88
3	French (fr) Philosophie de l'action		60
4	Dutch (nl) Handelingstheorie		21
5	Simple English (simple) Action theory		15
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da ação		13
7	Swedish (sv) Handlingsteori		13
8	Russian (ru) Теория действия (философия)		8
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)		7
10	Finnish (fi) Teonfilosofia		7

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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 "Action theory (philosophy)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)		0
2	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		0
3	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		0
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de la acción (filosofía)		0
5	Estonian (et) Tegevusfilosoofia		0
6	Persian (fa) نظریه کنش (فلسفه)		0
7	Finnish (fi) Teonfilosofia		0
8	French (fr) Philosophie de l'action		0
9	Japanese (ja) 行為の哲学		0
10	Dutch (nl) Handelingstheorie		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 "Action theory (philosophy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Action theory (philosophy)		583
2	Persian (fa) نظریه کنش (فلسفه)		425
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)		349
4	Chinese (zh) 行動理論		293
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da ação		220
6	Swedish (sv) Handlingsteori		166
7	Japanese (ja) 行為の哲学		165
8	Russian (ru) Теория действия (философия)		128
9	German (de) Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)		98
10	French (fr) Philosophie de l'action		97

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الفعل (فلسفة)
de	German Handlungstheorie (Philosophie)
en	English Action theory (philosophy)
es	Spanish Teoría de la acción (filosofía)
et	Estonian Tegevusfilosoofia
fa	Persian نظریه کنش (فلسفه)
fi	Finnish Teonfilosofia
fr	French Philosophie de l'action
ja	Japanese 行為の哲学
nl	Dutch Handelingstheorie
pt	Portuguese Teoria da ação
ru	Russian Теория действия (философия)
simple	Simple English Action theory
sk	Slovak Teória konania
sv	Swedish Handlingsteori
uz	Uzbek Harakat nazariyasi (falsafa)
vi	Vietnamese Lý luận hành động (triết học)
zh	Chinese 行動理論

Best Rank

English: #137041 11.2014

Global: #165601 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #317 04.2002

Global: #465 04.2002

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