Critical thinking

Quality:

Critical thinking - analysis of facts, with certain levels of rigor and problem-solving abilities, to form a judgment. Article “Critical thinking” in English Wikipedia has 72.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 90 references and 20 sections.

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 thinking” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Critical thinking”, its content was written by 808 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2032 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1538 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7009 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1568 in October 2013
• Global: #669 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5048 in September 2014
• Global: #5927 in September 2014

There are 41 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 thinking		72.7368
2	Indonesian (id) Berpikir kritis		60.0252
3	Spanish (es) Pensamiento crítico		48.8282
4	Chinese (zh) 批判性思维		48.6014
5	Romanian (ro) Gândire critică		44.4309
6	Persian (fa) تفکر نقادانه		41.8934
7	Hebrew (he) חשיבה ביקורתית		41.8867
8	Kazakh (kk) Сыни ойлау		41.7188
9	Ukrainian (uk) Критичне мислення		40.561
10	Malay (ms) Pemikiran kritis		39.6993

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical thinking		11 889 803
2	Spanish (es) Pensamiento crítico		5 797 822
3	Russian (ru) Критическое мышление		1 480 369
4	Japanese (ja) 批判的思考		925 572
5	Chinese (zh) 批判性思维		818 270
6	French (fr) Esprit critique		706 944
7	Arabic (ar) تفكير نقدي		649 390
8	Portuguese (pt) Pensamento crítico		534 370
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tư duy phản biện		407 780
10	Thai (th) การคิดวิเคราะห์		402 960

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 thinking		16 632
2	Russian (ru) Критическое мышление		2 257
3	Spanish (es) Pensamiento crítico		1 746
4	Chinese (zh) 批判性思维		1 573
5	Japanese (ja) 批判的思考		1 451
6	Persian (fa) تفکر نقادانه		1 180
7	French (fr) Esprit critique		1 054
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tư duy phản biện		498
9	Romanian (ro) Gândire critică		491
10	Italian (it) Pensiero critico		462

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Critical thinking		808
2	Spanish (es) Pensamiento crítico		232
3	French (fr) Esprit critique		170
4	Chinese (zh) 批判性思维		88
5	Japanese (ja) 批判的思考		58
6	Russian (ru) Критическое мышление		57
7	Italian (it) Pensiero critico		55
8	Dutch (nl) Kritisch denken		54
9	Arabic (ar) تفكير نقدي		52
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tư duy phản biện		47

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) Critical thinking		6
2	Spanish (es) Pensamiento crítico		3
3	Arabic (ar) تفكير نقدي		1
4	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen ajattelu		1
5	Indonesian (id) Berpikir kritis		1
6	Japanese (ja) 批判的思考		1
7	Polish (pl) Krytyczne myślenie		1
8	Uzbek (uz) Tanqidiy fikrlash		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Tənqidi düşüncə		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Критично мислене		0

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

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