Metaphysics

Quality:

Metaphysics - branch of philosophy dealing with the nature, structure, components and fundamental principles of reality. Article “Metaphysics” in English Wikipedia has 90.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 218 references and 22 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4679^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6072^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1880^th most popular in all topics.

The 4021^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9176^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Metaphysics” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Metaphysics”, its content was written by 1053 registered users of English Wikipedia (6072^nd place) and edited by 3969 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4021^st place).

The article is cited 4119 times in English Wikipedia (6530^th place) and cited 29847 times in all languages (5683^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19 in May 2001
• Global: #20 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2190 in October 2009
• Global: #1304 in September 2014

There are 55 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) Metaphysics		90.6301
2	Indonesian (id) Metafisika		88.4691
3	Serbian (sr) Метафизика		87.0647
4	Hindi (hi) तत्त्वमीमांसा		85.7143
5	Kazakh (kk) Метафизика		66.5595
6	Finnish (fi) Metafysiikka		61.5127
7	Spanish (es) Metafísica		61.1054
8	Italian (it) Metafisica		58.1324
9	Tamil (ta) மீவியற்பியல்		57.6593
10	Volapük (vo) Metafüd		57.4859

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metaphysics		22 176 196
2	Spanish (es) Metafísica		13 751 844
3	Russian (ru) Метафизика		4 962 498
4	German (de) Metaphysik		3 696 020
5	Portuguese (pt) Metafísica		3 568 366
6	French (fr) Métaphysique		3 240 869
7	Japanese (ja) 形而上学		2 752 441
8	Italian (it) Metafisica		2 293 359
9	Chinese (zh) 形上學		2 028 867
10	Arabic (ar) ما وراء الطبيعة		1 630 812

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) Metaphysics		43 339
2	Japanese (ja) 形而上学		11 815
3	Spanish (es) Metafísica		6 990
4	Russian (ru) Метафизика		6 320
5	German (de) Metaphysik		5 852
6	French (fr) Métaphysique		5 493
7	Chinese (zh) 形上學		4 853
8	Persian (fa) متافیزیک		3 354
9	Italian (it) Metafisica		2 678
10	Portuguese (pt) Metafísica		2 456

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metaphysics		1 053
2	French (fr) Métaphysique		305
3	Spanish (es) Metafísica		300
4	German (de) Metaphysik		284
5	Italian (it) Metafisica		192
6	Chinese (zh) 形上學		139
7	Russian (ru) Метафизика		134
8	Portuguese (pt) Metafísica		119
9	Persian (fa) متافیزیک		110
10	Dutch (nl) Metafysica		96

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) Metaphysics		3
2	Persian (fa) متافیزیک		2
3	French (fr) Métaphysique		2
4	Dutch (nl) Metafysica		2
5	Arabic (ar) ما وراء الطبيعة		1
6	Danish (da) Metafysik		1
7	Basque (eu) Metafisika		1
8	Hebrew (he) מטאפיזיקה		1
9	Indonesian (id) Metafisika		1
10	Japanese (ja) 形而上学		1

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

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