Closure (computer programming)

Closure - technique for creating lexically scoped first class functions. Article "Closure (computer programming)" in English Wikipedia has 47.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Closure (computer programming)", its content was written by 330 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 869 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in English Wikipedia and cited 867 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2716 in October 2003
• Global: #8849 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19053 in June 2014
• Global: #30622 in June 2014

There are 25 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) Closure (computer programming)		47.8869
2	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		42.3087
3	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		42.1821
4	Greek (el) Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)		38.3753
5	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		32.6971
6	Serbian (sr) Затворење (програмирање)		27.0583
7	Tamil (ta) அடைப்பு (கணினியியல்)		26.1338
8	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		24.5074
9	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		19.7488
10	Persian (fa) بستار (علوم رایانه)		19.3237

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Closure (computer programming)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		3 894 889
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		650 310
3	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		473 753
4	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		234 040
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		154 097
6	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		122 398
7	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		82 337
8	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		70 765
9	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		49 720
10	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		42 209

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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 "Closure (computer programming)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		9 567
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		916
3	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		644
4	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		601
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		458
6	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		438
7	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		161
8	Ukrainian (uk) Замикання (програмування)		104
9	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		88
10	Portuguese (pt) Clausura (ciência da computação)		84

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		330
2	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		121
3	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		69
4	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		61
5	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		48
6	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		46
7	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		28
8	Dutch (nl) Closure		21
9	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		15
10	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		15

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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 "Closure (computer programming)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Estonian (et) Sulund (informaatika)		1
2	Serbian (sr) Затворење (програмирање)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Затваряне (информатика)		0
4	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		0
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		0
6	Greek (el) Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)		0
7	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		0
8	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		0
9	Persian (fa) بستار (علوم رایانه)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Sulkeuma (ohjelmointi)		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 "Closure (computer programming)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Замикання (програмування)		167
2	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		157
3	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		135
4	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		81
5	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		55
6	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		54
7	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		37
8	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		25
9	Portuguese (pt) Clausura (ciência da computação)		20
10	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		16

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Затваряне (информатика)
cs	Czech Uzávěr (programování)
de	German Closure (Funktion)
el	Greek Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)
en	English Closure (computer programming)
es	Spanish Clausura (informática)
et	Estonian Sulund (informaatika)
fa	Persian بستار (علوم رایانه)
fi	Finnish Sulkeuma (ohjelmointi)
fr	French Fermeture (informatique)
he	Hebrew סגור (שפות תכנות)
it	Italian Chiusura (informatica)
ja	Japanese クロージャ
ko	Korean 클로저 (컴퓨터 프로그래밍)
nl	Dutch Closure
pl	Polish Domknięcie (programowanie)
pt	Portuguese Clausura (ciência da computação)
ru	Russian Замыкание (программирование)
simple	Simple English Closure (computer programming)
sr	Serbian Затворење (програмирање)
ta	Tamil அடைப்பு (கணினியியல்)
th	Thai ส่วนปิดคลุม (วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์)
uk	Ukrainian Замикання (програмування)
vi	Vietnamese Bao đóng (lập trình máy tính)
zh	Chinese 闭包 (计算机科学)

Best Rank

English: #19053 06.2014

Global: #30622 06.2014

Best Rank

English: #2716 10.2003

Global: #8849 10.2003

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