Legal deposit

Legal deposit - legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their publications to a repository. Article “Legal deposit” in English Wikipedia has 73.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 133 references and 51 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.17 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 “Legal deposit”, its content was written by 165 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 961 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 444 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2437 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37380 in September 2019
• Global: #6185 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137591 in October 2023
• Global: #128908 in April 2015

There are 35 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) Legal deposit		73.4966
2	Polish (pl) Egzemplarz obowiązkowy		55.7556
3	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		54.3864
4	Chinese (zh) 法定送存		48.2439
5	Hebrew (he) ספריית הפקדה		30.9662
6	Arabic (ar) إيداع قانوني		30.7169
7	Swedish (sv) Pliktexemplar		30.443
8	Indonesian (id) Perpustakaan deposit		29.9836
9	Spanish (es) Depósito legal		29.9212
10	Esperanto (eo) Deponeja biblioteko		28.5677

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legal deposit		575 862
2	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		258 303
3	French (fr) Dépôt légal		234 020
4	Polish (pl) Egzemplarz obowiązkowy		184 203
5	Japanese (ja) 納本制度		160 429
6	Russian (ru) Обязательный экземпляр		78 187
7	Arabic (ar) إيداع قانوني		71 882
8	Italian (it) Deposito legale		55 881
9	Swedish (sv) Pliktexemplar		45 903
10	Portuguese (pt) Depósito legal		42 848

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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 "Legal deposit" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legal deposit		2 539
2	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		867
3	French (fr) Dépôt légal		616
4	Japanese (ja) 納本制度		444
5	Chinese (zh) 法定送存		398
6	Polish (pl) Egzemplarz obowiązkowy		237
7	Russian (ru) Обязательный экземпляр		227
8	Italian (it) Deposito legale		204
9	Czech (cs) Povinný výtisk		203
10	Swedish (sv) Pliktexemplar		135

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legal deposit		165
2	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		144
3	French (fr) Dépôt légal		86
4	Polish (pl) Egzemplarz obowiązkowy		48
5	Italian (it) Deposito legale		47
6	Swedish (sv) Pliktexemplar		46
7	Dutch (nl) Depotplicht		44
8	Japanese (ja) 納本制度		41
9	Russian (ru) Обязательный экземпляр		39
10	Hebrew (he) ספריית הפקדה		29

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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 "Legal deposit" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Perpustakaan deposit		1
2	Arabic (ar) إيداع قانوني		0
3	Catalan (ca) Dipòsit legal		0
4	Czech (cs) Povinný výtisk		0
5	Danish (da) Pligtaflevering		0
6	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		0
7	English (en) Legal deposit		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Deponeja biblioteko		0
9	Spanish (es) Depósito legal		0
10	Estonian (et) Sundeksemplar		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 "Legal deposit" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Legal deposit		444
2	Catalan (ca) Dipòsit legal		321
3	German (de) Pflichtexemplar		206
4	French (fr) Dépôt légal		191
5	Polish (pl) Egzemplarz obowiązkowy		104
6	Russian (ru) Обязательный экземпляр		88
7	Ukrainian (uk) Обов'язковий примірник		86
8	Italian (it) Deposito legale		85
9	Swedish (sv) Pliktexemplar		74
10	Persian (fa) قانون واسپاری		73

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إيداع قانوني
ca	Catalan Dipòsit legal
cs	Czech Povinný výtisk
da	Danish Pligtaflevering
de	German Pflichtexemplar
en	English Legal deposit
eo	Esperanto Deponeja biblioteko
es	Spanish Depósito legal
et	Estonian Sundeksemplar
fa	Persian قانون واسپاری
fi	Finnish Vapaakappaleoikeus
fr	French Dépôt légal
gl	Galician Depósito legal
he	Hebrew ספריית הפקדה
hu	Hungarian Kötelespéldány
hy	Armenian Պարտադիր օրինակ
id	Indonesian Perpustakaan deposit
it	Italian Deposito legale
ja	Japanese 納本制度
kk	Kazakh Міндетті дана
ko	Korean 납본 제도
lt	Lithuanian Privalomasis egzempliorius
ms	Malay Pusat penyerahan terbitan
nl	Dutch Depotplicht
no	Norwegian Pliktavlevering
pl	Polish Egzemplarz obowiązkowy
pt	Portuguese Depósito legal
ru	Russian Обязательный экземпляр
sl	Slovenian Obvezni izvod
sr	Serbian Zakonski depozit
sv	Swedish Pliktexemplar
uk	Ukrainian Обов'язковий примірник
ur	Urdu تحویلی کتب خانہ
vi	Vietnamese Lưu chiểu
zh	Chinese 法定送存

Best Rank

English: #137591 10.2023

Global: #128908 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #37380 09.2019

Global: #6185 07.2003

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