Critical theory

Quality:

Critical sociology - philosophy that sociological understanding's primarily use should be social reform. Article “Critical theory” in English Wikipedia has 81.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 152 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.29 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 2026 the article “Critical theory” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Critical theory”, its content was written by 489 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1500 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2231 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11576 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2123 in April 2004
• Global: #2416 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3168 in June 2021
• Global: #5591 in June 2021

There are 38 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, 2026 (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) Critical theory		81.4286
2	German (de) Kritische Theorie		81.3333
3	Korean (ko) 비판 이론		74.0467
4	Croatian (hr) Kritička teorija		58.0894
5	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica		36.4468
6	Persian (fa) نظریه انتقادی		36.2718
7	Swedish (sv) Kritisk teori		35.3492
8	French (fr) Théorie critique		34.5432
9	Turkish (tr) Eleştirel teori		29.1353
10	Indonesian (id) Teori kritis		29.1146

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical theory		8 143 621
2	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica		3 730 138
3	German (de) Kritische Theorie		1 645 068
4	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica		771 159
5	Indonesian (id) Teori kritis		314 159
6	Chinese (zh) 批判理論		266 672
7	Russian (ru) Критическая теория		223 022
8	French (fr) Théorie critique		222 155
9	Polish (pl) Teoria krytyczna		214 119
10	Arabic (ar) نظرية نقدية		189 196

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) Critical theory		19 175
2	German (de) Kritische Theorie		4 473
3	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica		1 527
4	French (fr) Théorie critique		901
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica		880
6	Russian (ru) Критическая теория		752
7	Polish (pl) Teoria krytyczna		566
8	Chinese (zh) 批判理論		509
9	Japanese (ja) 批判理論		461
10	Persian (fa) نظریه انتقادی		447

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Critical theory		489
2	German (de) Kritische Theorie		256
3	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica		112
4	French (fr) Théorie critique		68
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica		55
6	Italian (it) Teoria critica		47
7	Chinese (zh) 批判理論		43
8	Hebrew (he) תאוריה ביקורתית		37
9	Persian (fa) نظریه انتقادی		34
10	Swedish (sv) Kritisk teori		30

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	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica		3
2	English (en) Critical theory		1
3	Basque (eu) Teoria kritikoa		1
4	Persian (fa) نظریه انتقادی		1
5	French (fr) Théorie critique		1
6	Korean (ko) 비판 이론		1
7	Russian (ru) Критическая теория		1
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية نقدية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Tənqidi nəzəriyyə		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Критическа теория		0

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

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