Forensic science

Quality:

Forensic science - application of science to criminal and civil laws. Article “Forensic science” in English Wikipedia has 64.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 141 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 27.62 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 2026 the article “Forensic science” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Forensic science”, its content was written by 1132 registered users of English Wikipedia (5057^th place) and edited by 2037 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2125 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5882 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1382 in September 2008
• Global: #4089 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3798 in September 2014
• Global: #6877 in September 2008

There are 34 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) Forensic science		64.4565
2	German (de) Forensik		62.0988
3	Persian (fa) علوم قانونی		55.9497
4	Turkish (tr) Adli bilimler		48.9519
5	Japanese (ja) 法科学		40.7393
6	Tamil (ta) தடய அறிவியல்		40.2898
7	Portuguese (pt) Ciência forense		35.141
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khoa học pháp y		30.1789
9	Malay (ms) Sains forensik		27.9871
10	Estonian (et) Kohtuekspertiis		27.219

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forensic science		12 308 144
2	German (de) Forensik		3 801 258
3	Portuguese (pt) Ciência forense		736 953
4	Dutch (nl) Forensisch onderzoek		482 840
5	Italian (it) Scienza forense		334 289
6	French (fr) Science forensique		322 676
7	Chinese (zh) 法庭科学		273 480
8	Arabic (ar) علم الأدلة الجنائية		241 205
9	Indonesian (id) Ilmu forensik		224 251
10	Thai (th) นิติวิทยาศาสตร์		196 998

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forensic science		13 486
2	German (de) Forensik		4 673
3	French (fr) Science forensique		1 120
4	Chinese (zh) 法庭科学		594
5	Portuguese (pt) Ciência forense		413
6	Vietnamese (vi) Khoa học pháp y		383
7	Russian (ru) Криминалистическая экспертиза		350
8	Japanese (ja) 法科学		276
9	Turkish (tr) Adli bilimler		250
10	Thai (th) นิติวิทยาศาสตร์		241

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forensic science		1 132
2	German (de) Forensik		227
3	Dutch (nl) Forensisch onderzoek		80
4	Italian (it) Scienza forense		76
5	Chinese (zh) 法庭科学		51
6	Hebrew (he) זיהוי פלילי		50
7	French (fr) Science forensique		46
8	Portuguese (pt) Ciência forense		46
9	Japanese (ja) 法科学		35
10	Simple English (simple) Forensic science		32

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forensic science		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Kriminalistika		2
3	Basque (eu) Auzitegi zientziak		1
4	Arabic (ar) علم الأدلة الجنائية		0
5	Czech (cs) Forenzní vědy		0
6	German (de) Forensik		0
7	Estonian (et) Kohtuekspertiis		0
8	Persian (fa) علوم قانونی		0
9	French (fr) Science forensique		0
10	Hebrew (he) זיהוי פלילי		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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