Explanatory gap

Explanatory gap - inability to describe conscious experiences in soley physical or structural terms. Article “Explanatory gap” in English Wikipedia has 24 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.26 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.

Since the creation of article “Explanatory gap”, its content was written by 64 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 407 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12248 in July 2003
• Global: #21676 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #148041 in February 2013
• Global: #240827 in February 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, 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) Explanatory gap		23.9629
2	Arabic (ar) ثغرة الشرح		21.3987
3	German (de) Erklärungslücke		19.6238
4	Chinese (zh) 解释鸿沟		17.6879
5	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		16.5883
6	French (fr) Fossé explicatif		15.952
7	Italian (it) Lacune esplicative		12.7388
8	Uzbek (uz) Tushuntirish boʻshligʻi		10.2854
9	Portuguese (pt) Lacuna explanatória		9.9117
10	Russian (ru) Разрыв в объяснении		4.8155

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Explanatory gap" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Explanatory gap		328 764
2	Japanese (ja) 説明のギャップ		38 259
3	German (de) Erklärungslücke		23 937
4	Russian (ru) Разрыв в объяснении		17 897
5	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		9 799
6	Chinese (zh) 解释鸿沟		8 538
7	Arabic (ar) ثغرة الشرح		4 655
8	Italian (it) Lacune esplicative		2 772
9	Portuguese (pt) Lacuna explanatória		2 694
10	Spanish (es) Vacío explicativo		2 596

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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 "Explanatory gap" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Explanatory gap		966
2	Chinese (zh) 解释鸿沟		122
3	Russian (ru) Разрыв в объяснении		73
4	Japanese (ja) 説明のギャップ		52
5	German (de) Erklärungslücke		46
6	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		45
7	French (fr) Fossé explicatif		22
8	Spanish (es) Vacío explicativo		15
9	Korean (ko) 설명적 간극		12
10	Italian (it) Lacune esplicative		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 "Explanatory gap" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Explanatory gap		64
2	German (de) Erklärungslücke		15
3	Portuguese (pt) Lacuna explanatória		11
4	Italian (it) Lacune esplicative		8
5	Spanish (es) Vacío explicativo		5
6	French (fr) Fossé explicatif		5
7	Japanese (ja) 説明のギャップ		5
8	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		4
9	Russian (ru) Разрыв в объяснении		4
10	Arabic (ar) ثغرة الشرح		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 "Explanatory gap" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ثغرة الشرح		0
2	German (de) Erklärungslücke		0
3	English (en) Explanatory gap		0
4	Spanish (es) Vacío explicativo		0
5	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		0
6	French (fr) Fossé explicatif		0
7	Italian (it) Lacune esplicative		0
8	Japanese (ja) 説明のギャップ		0
9	Korean (ko) 설명적 간극		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Lacuna explanatória		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 "Explanatory gap" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Explanatory gap		108
2	Japanese (ja) 説明のギャップ		90
3	Chinese (zh) 解释鸿沟		76
4	French (fr) Fossé explicatif		51
5	Russian (ru) Разрыв в объяснении		39
6	Persian (fa) شکاف تبیینی		16
7	German (de) Erklärungslücke		7
8	Korean (ko) 설명적 간극		7
9	Arabic (ar) ثغرة الشرح		4
10	Spanish (es) Vacío explicativo		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ثغرة الشرح
de	German Erklärungslücke
en	English Explanatory gap
es	Spanish Vacío explicativo
fa	Persian شکاف تبیینی
fr	French Fossé explicatif
it	Italian Lacune esplicative
ja	Japanese 説明のギャップ
ko	Korean 설명적 간극
pt	Portuguese Lacuna explanatória
ru	Russian Разрыв в объяснении
uz	Uzbek Tushuntirish boʻshligʻi
zh	Chinese 解释鸿沟

Best Rank

English: #148041 02.2013

Global: #240827 02.2013

Best Rank

English: #12248 07.2003

Global: #21676 07.2003

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