Historical criticism

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Historical criticism

Quality:

Historical criticism - branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text (usually the Bible). Article “Historical criticism” in English Wikipedia has 68.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 62 references and 26 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.

In June 2025 the article “Historical criticism” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Historical criticism”, its content was written by 259 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 682 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 826 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2861 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #851 in September 2001
  • Global: #944 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #62080 in August 2022
  • Global: #82424 in May 2014

There are 20 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Historical criticism
68.085
2German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
59.6833
3Dutch (nl)
Historisch-kritische methode
49.1887
4Indonesian (id)
Kritik sejarah (Alkitab)
38.7644
5French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
33.1332
6Hebrew (he)
ביקורת היסטורית
32.3735
7Esperanto (eo)
Radikala kritiko
32.2731
8Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
31.913
9Italian (it)
Criticismo storico
29.3348
10Persian (fa)
روش تاریخی-انتقادی
28.1821
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Historical criticism" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Historical criticism
1 874 096
2German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
562 070
3Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
154 687
4Japanese (ja)
高等批評
143 558
5French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
114 842
6Danish (da)
Historisk-kritisk metode
67 855
7Arabic (ar)
نقد تاريخي
64 839
8Russian (ru)
Историко-критический метод
33 128
9Korean (ko)
역사비평
23 154
10Persian (fa)
روش تاریخی-انتقادی
17 262
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Historical criticism" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Historical criticism
7 505
2German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
1 099
3Japanese (ja)
高等批評
982
4French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
738
5Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
399
6Russian (ru)
Историко-критический метод
238
7Persian (fa)
روش تاریخی-انتقادی
153
8Korean (ko)
역사비평
114
9Danish (da)
Historisk-kritisk metode
104
10Chinese (zh)
歷史批判
97
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Historical criticism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Historical criticism
259
2German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
156
3French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
89
4Danish (da)
Historisk-kritisk metode
36
5Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
21
6Japanese (ja)
高等批評
19
7Arabic (ar)
نقد تاريخي
13
8Russian (ru)
Историко-критический метод
13
9Korean (ko)
역사비평
11
10Catalan (ca)
Alta crítica
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Historical criticism" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
高等批評
7
2English (en)
Historical criticism
2
3French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
1
4Arabic (ar)
نقد تاريخي
0
5Catalan (ca)
Alta crítica
0
6Danish (da)
Historisk-kritisk metode
0
7German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Radikala kritiko
0
9Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
0
10Estonian (et)
Ajaloolis-kriitiline meetod
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Historical criticism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Historical criticism
826
2French (fr)
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
634
3German (de)
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
327
4Danish (da)
Historisk-kritisk metode
288
5Japanese (ja)
高等批評
159
6Arabic (ar)
نقد تاريخي
156
7Spanish (es)
Alta crítica
107
8Persian (fa)
روش تاریخی-انتقادی
80
9Chinese (zh)
歷史批判
65
10Korean (ko)
역사비평
53
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نقد تاريخي
caCatalan
Alta crítica
daDanish
Historisk-kritisk metode
deGerman
Historisch-kritische Methode (Theologie)
enEnglish
Historical criticism
eoEsperanto
Radikala kritiko
esSpanish
Alta crítica
etEstonian
Ajaloolis-kriitiline meetod
faPersian
روش تاریخی-انتقادی
frFrench
Exégèse historico-critique de la Bible
heHebrew
ביקורת היסטורית
huHungarian
Történetkritikai módszer
idIndonesian
Kritik sejarah (Alkitab)
itItalian
Criticismo storico
jaJapanese
高等批評
koKorean
역사비평
nlDutch
Historisch-kritische methode
ruRussian
Историко-критический метод
skSlovak
Historický kriticizmus
zhChinese
歷史批判

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#62080
08.2022
Global:
#82424
05.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#851
09.2001
Global:
#944
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Historical criticism from Wikipedia articles about Historical Jesus, Salman Rushdie, Biblical literalism, Biblical criticism and Historical-grammatical method. Whereas reading the article about Historical criticism people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Textual criticism, Biblical criticism, Documentary hypothesis, Historical-grammatical method and Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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