Naturalistic observation

Naturalistic observation - observation of a subject in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer. Article “Naturalistic observation” in English Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Naturalistic observation”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in English Wikipedia and cited 517 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #31700 in September 2004
• Global: #78768 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #71991 in September 2013
• Global: #94179 in September 2008

There are 8 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	German (de) Beobachtung		30.2992
2	English (en) Naturalistic observation		29.5306
3	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		26.27
4	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		21.527
5	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		12.6777
6	Japanese (ja) 観察		8.9836
7	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		3.0567
8	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		0.2144

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Naturalistic observation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naturalistic observation		747 768
2	German (de) Beobachtung		687 745
3	Japanese (ja) 観察		208 269
4	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		19 744
5	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		6 387
6	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		3 776
7	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		3 530
8	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		97

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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 "Naturalistic observation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naturalistic observation		621
2	German (de) Beobachtung		498
3	Japanese (ja) 観察		358
4	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		58
5	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		22
6	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		16
7	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		8
8	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Beobachtung		81
2	English (en) Naturalistic observation		42
3	Japanese (ja) 観察		32
4	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		6
5	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		5
6	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		5
7	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		3
8	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		2

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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 "Naturalistic observation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		0
2	German (de) Beobachtung		0
3	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		0
4	English (en) Naturalistic observation		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		0
6	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		0
7	Japanese (ja) 観察		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		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 "Naturalistic observation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Beobachtung		269
2	Japanese (ja) 観察		183
3	English (en) Naturalistic observation		46
4	Arabic (ar) مراقبة (بحث علمي)		7
5	Esperanto (eo) Spektado		6
6	Greek (el) Φυσική παρατήρηση		2
7	Spanish (es) Observación naturalista		2
8	Ukrainian (uk) Натуралістичне спостереження		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مراقبة (بحث علمي)
de	German Beobachtung
el	Greek Φυσική παρατήρηση
en	English Naturalistic observation
eo	Esperanto Spektado
es	Spanish Observación naturalista
ja	Japanese 観察
uk	Ukrainian Натуралістичне спостереження

Best Rank

English: #71991 09.2013

Global: #94179 09.2008

Best Rank

English: #31700 09.2004

Global: #78768 09.2004

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