Externalism

Externalism - a group of positions in the philosophy of mind which argues that the mind is not only the result of what is going on in the body, but also what occurs or exists outside the subject. Article “Externalism” in English Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 8 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.

Since the creation of article “Externalism”, its content was written by 45 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in English Wikipedia and cited 544 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #111591 in December 2010
• Global: #81841 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #309118 in April 2012
• Global: #431842 in November 2012

There are 11 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) Externalism		38.0817
2	Estonian (et) Eksternalism		37.8168
3	Italian (it) Esternalismo		36.9274
4	Persian (fa) برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)		23.6319
5	Kazakh (kk) Экстернализм		23.6127
6	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		18.2646
7	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		7.3088
8	Greek (el) Εξτερναλισμός		3.2079
9	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		2.6241
10	Ukrainian (uk) Екстерналізм		1.0474

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Externalism		273 406
2	Russian (ru) Экстернализм		55 154
3	Italian (it) Esternalismo		43 082
4	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		24 126
5	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		23 135
6	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		4 363
7	Ukrainian (uk) Екстерналізм		1 794
8	Greek (el) Εξτερναλισμός		1 160
9	Estonian (et) Eksternalism		742
10	Kazakh (kk) Экстернализм		632

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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 "Externalism" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Externalism		746
2	Italian (it) Esternalismo		139
3	Russian (ru) Экстернализм		105
4	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		59
5	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		54
6	Persian (fa) برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)		19
7	Ukrainian (uk) Екстерналізм		19
8	Kazakh (kk) Экстернализм		16
9	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		13
10	Greek (el) Εξτερναλισμός		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 "Externalism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Externalism		45
2	Italian (it) Esternalismo		36
3	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		13
4	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		8
5	Estonian (et) Eksternalism		7
6	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		6
7	Russian (ru) Экстернализм		5
8	Ukrainian (uk) Екстерналізм		4
9	Greek (el) Εξτερναλισμός		3
10	Persian (fa) برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)		1

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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 "Externalism" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		2
2	Greek (el) Εξτερναλισμός		0
3	English (en) Externalism		0
4	Estonian (et) Eksternalism		0
5	Persian (fa) برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)		0
6	Italian (it) Esternalismo		0
7	Kazakh (kk) Экстернализм		0
8	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		0
10	Russian (ru) Экстернализм		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 "Externalism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Екстерналізм		240
2	Polish (pl) Eksternalizm		117
3	Portuguese (pt) Externalismo (filosofia da mente)		56
4	Russian (ru) Экстернализм		54
5	English (en) Externalism		45
6	Italian (it) Esternalismo		10
7	Arabic (ar) خارجيانية		9
8	Estonian (et) Eksternalism		6
9	Persian (fa) برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)		5
10	Kazakh (kk) Экстернализм		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خارجيانية
el	Greek Εξτερναλισμός
en	English Externalism
et	Estonian Eksternalism
fa	Persian برون‌گرایی (فلسفه ذهن)
it	Italian Esternalismo
kk	Kazakh Экстернализм
pl	Polish Eksternalizm
pt	Portuguese Externalismo (filosofia da mente)
ru	Russian Экстернализм
uk	Ukrainian Екстерналізм

Best Rank

English: #309118 04.2012

Global: #431842 11.2012

Best Rank

English: #111591 12.2010

Global: #81841 03.2011

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