Development studies

Development studies - multidisciplinary branch of social science which addresses issues of concern to developing countries. Article "Development studies" in English Wikipedia has 21.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Development studies", its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 301 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 467 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1300 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39800 in December 2010
• Global: #26827 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #73554 in December 2017
• Global: #117370 in December 2017

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	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		31.4999
2	Tamil (ta) அபிவிருத்திக் கற்கைகள்		24.8882
3	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		24.8698
4	English (en) Development studies		21.1446
5	Bulgarian (bg) Социология на развитието		14.754
6	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		13.2299
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nghiên cứu phát triển		11.6456
8	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		11.1877
9	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		9.195
10	Japanese (ja) 開発学		7.0927

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Development studies" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Development studies		1 587 629
2	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		225 818
3	Japanese (ja) 開発学		128 504
4	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		43 832
5	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		34 455
6	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		24 236
7	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		20 539
8	Italian (it) Sociologia dello sviluppo		16 412
9	Polish (pl) Studia nad rozwojem		14 834
10	Hindi (hi) विकास अध्ययन		7 262

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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 "Development studies" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Development studies		1 969
2	Japanese (ja) 開発学		254
3	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		225
4	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		155
5	Indonesian (id) Kajian pembangunan		122
6	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		60
7	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		29
8	Hindi (hi) विकास अध्ययन		29
9	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		23
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nghiên cứu phát triển		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Development studies		139
2	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		36
3	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		28
4	Japanese (ja) 開発学		25
5	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		16
6	Italian (it) Sociologia dello sviluppo		12
7	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		10
8	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		9
9	Tamil (ta) அபிவிருத்திக் கற்கைகள்		6
10	Polish (pl) Studia nad rozwojem		5

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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 "Development studies" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) مطالعات توسعه		1
2	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		1
3	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Социология на развитието		0
5	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		0
6	English (en) Development studies		0
7	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		0
8	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		0
9	Hindi (hi) विकास अध्ययन		0
10	Indonesian (id) Kajian pembangunan		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 "Development studies" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Development studies		467
2	Arabic (ar) دراسات التنمية		167
3	Chinese (zh) 發展研究		151
4	French (fr) Sociologie du développement		143
5	Indonesian (id) Kajian pembangunan		90
6	German (de) Entwicklungsforschung		70
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nghiên cứu phát triển		58
8	Persian (fa) مطالعات توسعه		54
9	Japanese (ja) 開発学		50
10	Finnish (fi) Kehitystutkimus		25

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دراسات التنمية
bg	Bulgarian Социология на развитието
de	German Entwicklungsforschung
en	English Development studies
fa	Persian مطالعات توسعه
fi	Finnish Kehitystutkimus
fr	French Sociologie du développement
hi	Hindi विकास अध्ययन
id	Indonesian Kajian pembangunan
it	Italian Sociologia dello sviluppo
ja	Japanese 開発学
pl	Polish Studia nad rozwojem
ta	Tamil அபிவிருத்திக் கற்கைகள்
vi	Vietnamese Nghiên cứu phát triển
zh	Chinese 發展研究

Best Rank

English: #73554 12.2017

Global: #117370 12.2017

Best Rank

English: #39800 12.2010

Global: #26827 08.2003

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