Boston University

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Boston University - private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This university is the 45^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 43^rd most popular university in English Wikipedia and the 119^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article "Boston University" in English Wikipedia has 87.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 293 references and 35 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7896^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 43^rd most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

The 119^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 45^th most popular in universities.

The 148^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4670^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9914^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Boston University" was edited by 14 authors in English Wikipedia (4670^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (9914^th place).

Since the creation of article "Boston University", its content was written by 894 registered users of English Wikipedia (7896^th place) and edited by 1713 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Boston University is on the 43^rd place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 45^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

Boston University is on the 119^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 148^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 7097 times in English Wikipedia (2789^th place) and cited 18484 times in all languages (8641^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #422 in June 2003
• Global: #2307 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3874 in January 2011
• Global: #9429 in January 2011

There are 45 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		93.8606
2	English (en) Boston University		87.8804
3	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Βοστώνης		80.4969
4	Uzbek (uz) Boston universiteti		70.6069
5	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		51.6838
6	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		50.9654
7	Indonesian (id) Universitas Boston		44.616
8	Armenian (hy) Բոստոնի համալսարան		42.4437
9	Ukrainian (uk) Бостонський університет		41.677
10	German (de) Boston University		41.6529

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston University		7 802 715
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		494 621
3	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		460 598
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		232 029
5	German (de) Boston University		195 183
6	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		183 041
7	French (fr) Université de Boston		174 754
8	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		116 305
9	Italian (it) Università di Boston		101 158
10	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Bostoński		84 637

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) Boston University		30 874
2	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		3 053
3	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		1 645
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		943
5	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		935
6	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		722
7	Persian (fa) دانشگاه بوستون		609
8	German (de) Boston University		607
9	French (fr) Université de Boston		464
10	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		381

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boston University		894
2	German (de) Boston University		86
3	French (fr) Université de Boston		74
4	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		54
5	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		54
6	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		53
7	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת בוסטון		42
8	Italian (it) Università di Boston		39
9	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		34
10	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		32

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) Boston University		14
2	French (fr) Université de Boston		2
3	Italian (it) Università di Boston		2
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		1
5	Indonesian (id) Universitas Boston		1
6	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		1
7	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Universidade de Boston		1
9	Serbian (sr) Универзитет Бостон		1
10	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		0

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

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