List of pseudoscience topics

List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of pseudoscience topics” in English Wikipedia has 75.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 392 references and 25 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “List of pseudoscience topics” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of pseudoscience topics”, its content was written by 1047 registered users of English Wikipedia (6168^th place) and edited by 1271 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 399 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #398 in March 2004
• Global: #3700 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10166 in September 2015
• Global: #25384 in September 2015

There are 12 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	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		87
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		81.014
3	Turkish (tr) Sözdebilim olarak nitelenen konular listesi		79.6302
4	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		76.7443
5	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		75.4709
6	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		71.3329
7	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		51.547
8	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		49.4316
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список псевдонаукових тем		47.2451
10	Simple English (simple) List of topics considered to be pseudoscience		25.6507

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

The most popular language versions of the article "List of pseudoscience topics" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		5 032 257
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		200 677
3	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		145 839
4	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		114 227
5	Simple English (simple) List of topics considered to be pseudoscience		56 053
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة العلوم الزائفة والمصطلحات العلمية الزائفة		47 612
7	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		38 903
8	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		22 920
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список псевдонаукових тем		13 249
10	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		6 982

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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 "List of pseudoscience topics" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		13 489
2	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		1 719
3	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		1 402
4	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		934
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		525
6	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		175
7	Simple English (simple) List of topics considered to be pseudoscience		64
8	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		55
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список псевдонаукових тем		45
10	Turkish (tr) Sözdebilim olarak nitelenen konular listesi		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		1 047
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		55
3	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		33
4	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		26
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة العلوم الزائفة والمصطلحات العلمية الزائفة		24
6	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		22
7	Ukrainian (uk) Список псевдонаукових тем		20
8	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		14
9	Simple English (simple) List of topics considered to be pseudoscience		11
10	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		7

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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 "List of pseudoscience topics" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		4
2	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		2
3	Indonesian (id) Daftar topik yang dikarakteristikkan sebagai ilmu semu		1
4	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		1
5	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		1
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة العلوم الزائفة والمصطلحات العلمية الزائفة		0
7	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		0
9	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		0
10	Simple English (simple) List of topics considered to be pseudoscience		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 "List of pseudoscience topics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of pseudoscience topics		399
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências		203
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة العلوم الزائفة والمصطلحات العلمية الزائفة		174
4	Chinese (zh) 被認定是偽科學的主題列表		145
5	Persian (fa) فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم		132
6	Ukrainian (uk) Список псевдонаукових тем		115
7	Russian (ru) Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий		60
8	Romanian (ro) Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință		9
9	Turkish (tr) Sözdebilim olarak nitelenen konular listesi		7
10	Japanese (ja) 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائمة العلوم الزائفة والمصطلحات العلمية الزائفة
en	English List of pseudoscience topics
fa	Persian فهرست موضوعات مشخص‌شده به‌عنوان شبه‌علم
id	Indonesian Daftar topik yang dikarakteristikkan sebagai ilmu semu
ja	Japanese 疑似科学とみなされているものの一覧
pt	Portuguese Lista de tópicos considerados pseudociências
ro	Romanian Lista subiectelor caracterizate ca pseudoștiință
ru	Russian Список псевдонаучных концепций и понятий
simple	Simple English List of topics considered to be pseudoscience
tr	Turkish Sözdebilim olarak nitelenen konular listesi
uk	Ukrainian Список псевдонаукових тем
zh	Chinese 被認定是偽科學的主題列表

Best Rank

English: #10166 09.2015

Global: #25384 09.2015

Best Rank

English: #398 03.2004

Global: #3700 03.2004

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