Controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabulary - standardized and organized sets of words and phrases for retrieval and disambiguation of information, distinguishing preferred terms from non-preferred terms. Article “Controlled vocabulary” in English Wikipedia has 31.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.68 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Controlled vocabulary” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Controlled vocabulary”, its content was written by 116 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 257 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in English Wikipedia and cited 438 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24459 in May 2005
• Global: #2187 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #99088 in April 2010
• Global: #139036 in April 2010

There are 15 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	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		34.1124
2	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		31.9183
3	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		26.3635
4	Polish (pl) Słownictwo kontrolowane		26.266
5	Tamil (ta) கட்டுப்படுத்தப்பட்ட சொற்கோவை		22.2652
6	Serbian (sr) Контролни вокабулар		21.4154
7	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		18.7698
8	Chinese (zh) 受控词表		17.6515
9	Portuguese (pt) Vocabulário controlado		17.2674
10	Catalan (ca) Vocabulari controlat		16.8948

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Controlled vocabulary" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		886 561
2	German (de) Kontrolliertes Vokabular		120 702
3	Chinese (zh) 受控词表		32 309
4	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de indización		24 229
5	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		22 777
6	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		14 318
7	Portuguese (pt) Vocabulário controlado		12 600
8	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		7 980
9	Vietnamese (vi) Từ vựng được kiểm soát		4 138
10	Polish (pl) Słownictwo kontrolowane		2 231

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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 "Controlled vocabulary" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		2 762
2	German (de) Kontrolliertes Vokabular		193
3	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		140
4	Chinese (zh) 受控词表		115
5	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de indización		77
6	Portuguese (pt) Vocabulário controlado		54
7	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		53
8	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		47
9	Polish (pl) Słownictwo kontrolowane		29
10	Vietnamese (vi) Từ vựng được kiểm soát		29

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		116
2	German (de) Kontrolliertes Vokabular		49
3	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		23
4	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de indización		12
5	Vietnamese (vi) Từ vựng được kiểm soát		9
6	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		8
7	Portuguese (pt) Vocabulário controlado		8
8	Chinese (zh) 受控词表		8
9	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		7
10	Catalan (ca) Vocabulari controlat		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 "Controlled vocabulary" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		1
2	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		1
3	Polish (pl) Słownictwo kontrolowane		1
4	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		0
5	Catalan (ca) Vocabulari controlat		0
6	German (de) Kontrolliertes Vokabular		0
7	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de indización		0
8	Persian (fa) دایره واژه کنترل‌شده		0
9	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		0
10	Korean (ko) 통제 어휘집		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 "Controlled vocabulary" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Controlled vocabulary		157
2	German (de) Kontrolliertes Vokabular		54
3	Chinese (zh) 受控词表		49
4	French (fr) Vocabulaire contrôlé		32
5	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de indización		26
6	Persian (fa) دایره واژه کنترل‌شده		26
7	Japanese (ja) 統制語彙		25
8	Arabic (ar) مفردات مضبوطة		19
9	Catalan (ca) Vocabulari controlat		18
10	Portuguese (pt) Vocabulário controlado		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مفردات مضبوطة
ca	Catalan Vocabulari controlat
de	German Kontrolliertes Vokabular
en	English Controlled vocabulary
es	Spanish Lenguaje de indización
fa	Persian دایره واژه کنترل‌شده
fr	French Vocabulaire contrôlé
ja	Japanese 統制語彙
ko	Korean 통제 어휘집
pl	Polish Słownictwo kontrolowane
pt	Portuguese Vocabulário controlado
sr	Serbian Контролни вокабулар
ta	Tamil கட்டுப்படுத்தப்பட்ட சொற்கோவை
vi	Vietnamese Từ vựng được kiểm soát
zh	Chinese 受控词表

Best Rank

English: #99088 04.2010

Global: #139036 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #24459 05.2005

Global: #2187 11.2001

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