Effective field theory

Effective field theory - type of approximation to an underlying physical theory. Article “Effective field theory” in English Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.48 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 2025 the article “Effective field theory” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Effective field theory”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 226 times in English Wikipedia and cited 751 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39878 in May 2004
• Global: #75314 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #358576 in April 2015
• Global: #503404 in April 2015

There are 12 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	English (en) Effective field theory		28.1711
2	Catalan (ca) Teoria de camps eficaç		26.4148
3	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		24.9762
4	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		21.2062
5	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		21.0517
6	Swedish (sv) Effektiv fältteori		20.9306
7	Turkish (tr) Efektif alan teorisi		18.4203
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		17.7359
9	Chinese (zh) 有效場論		8.6207
10	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		8.4848

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Effective field theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Effective field theory		354 653
2	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		21 443
3	French (fr) Théorie effective		19 969
4	Korean (ko) 유효 이론		15 336
5	Chinese (zh) 有效場論		12 980
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		7 897
7	Turkish (tr) Efektif alan teorisi		3 091
8	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		1 963
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		1 962
10	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		1 126

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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 "Effective field theory" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Effective field theory		2 498
2	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		127
3	Chinese (zh) 有效場論		61
4	French (fr) Théorie effective		52
5	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		40
6	Korean (ko) 유효 이론		37
7	Turkish (tr) Efektif alan teorisi		37
8	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		27
9	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		16
10	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Effective field theory		57
2	French (fr) Théorie effective		25
3	Turkish (tr) Efektif alan teorisi		10
4	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		7
5	Korean (ko) 유효 이론		6
6	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		6
7	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		5
8	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		5
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		4
10	Chinese (zh) 有效場論		4

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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 "Effective field theory" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Effective field theory		2
2	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		0
3	Catalan (ca) Teoria de camps eficaç		0
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		0
5	French (fr) Théorie effective		0
6	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		0
7	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		0
8	Korean (ko) 유효 이론		0
9	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		0
10	Swedish (sv) Effektiv fältteori		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 "Effective field theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Effective field theory		226
2	Chinese (zh) 有效場論		151
3	Korean (ko) 유효 이론		106
4	Arabic (ar) نظرية الحقل الفعال		99
5	Italian (it) Teoria di campo efficace		73
6	French (fr) Théorie effective		35
7	Japanese (ja) 有効場の理論		29
8	Russian (ru) Эффективная теория поля		10
9	Catalan (ca) Teoria de camps eficaç		6
10	Spanish (es) Teoría de campo efectivo		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الحقل الفعال
ca	Catalan Teoria de camps eficaç
en	English Effective field theory
es	Spanish Teoría de campo efectivo
fr	French Théorie effective
it	Italian Teoria di campo efficace
ja	Japanese 有効場の理論
ko	Korean 유효 이론
ru	Russian Эффективная теория поля
sv	Swedish Effektiv fältteori
tr	Turkish Efektif alan teorisi
zh	Chinese 有效場論

Best Rank

English: #358576 04.2015

Global: #503404 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #39878 05.2004

Global: #75314 05.2004

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