Critical success factor

Critical success factor - management term for an element that is necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission. Article “Critical success factor” in English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.44 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Critical success factor”, its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 171 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 73 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #31382 in July 2005
• Global: #61362 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53854 in April 2013
• Global: #68988 in April 2013

There are 13 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	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		26.8387
2	English (en) Critical success factor		25.1318
3	Spanish (es) Factor crítico de éxito		23.5718
4	Indonesian (id) Critical success factor		21.6665
5	Chinese (zh) 关键成功因素		21.634
6	Polish (pl) Kluczowe czynniki sukcesu		21.4066
7	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		11.4207
8	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		11.0219
9	Arabic (ar) عامل حرج		8.0417
10	Persian (fa) عامل بحرانی موفقیت		2.9671

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Critical success factor" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical success factor		1 831 492
2	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		458 497
3	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		229 614
4	Dutch (nl) Kritieke succesfactoren		104 459
5	Polish (pl) Kluczowe czynniki sukcesu		52 223
6	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		41 413
7	Chinese (zh) 关键成功因素		40 563
8	Arabic (ar) عامل حرج		15 679
9	Japanese (ja) 重要成功要因		13 098
10	Indonesian (id) Critical success factor		12 138

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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 "Critical success factor" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical success factor		1 090
2	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		194
3	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		116
4	Chinese (zh) 关键成功因素		101
5	Spanish (es) Factor crítico de éxito		89
6	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		54
7	Dutch (nl) Kritieke succesfactoren		43
8	Japanese (ja) 重要成功要因		41
9	Polish (pl) Kluczowe czynniki sukcesu		41
10	Indonesian (id) Critical success factor		31

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Critical success factor		69
2	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		23
3	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		22
4	Dutch (nl) Kritieke succesfactoren		17
5	Persian (fa) عامل بحرانی موفقیت		11
6	Arabic (ar) عامل حرج		5
7	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		5
8	Polish (pl) Kluczowe czynniki sukcesu		5
9	Spanish (es) Factor crítico de éxito		4
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ключови фактори за успех		3

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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 "Critical success factor" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) عامل حرج		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Ключови фактори за успех		0
3	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		0
4	English (en) Critical success factor		0
5	Spanish (es) Factor crítico de éxito		0
6	Persian (fa) عامل بحرانی موفقیت		0
7	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		0
8	Indonesian (id) Critical success factor		0
9	Japanese (ja) 重要成功要因		0
10	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		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 "Critical success factor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Critical success factor		29
2	German (de) Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor		12
3	French (fr) Facteur clé de succès		12
4	Spanish (es) Factor crítico de éxito		7
5	Arabic (ar) عامل حرج		4
6	Dutch (nl) Kritieke succesfactoren		4
7	Korean (ko) 핵심 성공 요인		2
8	Persian (fa) عامل بحرانی موفقیت		1
9	Indonesian (id) Critical success factor		1
10	Japanese (ja) 重要成功要因		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عامل حرج
bg	Bulgarian Ключови фактори за успех
de	German Kritischer Erfolgsfaktor
en	English Critical success factor
es	Spanish Factor crítico de éxito
fa	Persian عامل بحرانی موفقیت
fr	French Facteur clé de succès
id	Indonesian Critical success factor
ja	Japanese 重要成功要因
ko	Korean 핵심 성공 요인
nl	Dutch Kritieke succesfactoren
pl	Polish Kluczowe czynniki sukcesu
zh	Chinese 关键成功因素

Best Rank

English: #53854 04.2013

Global: #68988 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #31382 07.2005

Global: #61362 07.2005

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