No-go theorem

No-go theorem - theorem that states that a particular situation is not physically possible. Article “No-go theorem” in English Wikipedia has 32 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 9 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 “No-go theorem”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 138 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in English Wikipedia and cited 82 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #61501 in May 2024
• Global: #101302 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #118173 in October 2015
• Global: #202881 in October 2015

There are 10 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) No-go-Theorem		32.0407
2	English (en) No-go theorem		31.9974
3	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		22.3714
4	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		15.7912
5	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		14.8493
6	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		11.8757
7	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		10.0071
8	French (fr) Théorème no-go		9.7621
9	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		5.4607
10	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		2.1928

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

The most popular language versions of the article "No-go theorem" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) No-go theorem		328 081
2	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		46 685
3	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		13 132
4	French (fr) Théorème no-go		8 390
5	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		4 547
6	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		4 166
7	German (de) No-go-Theorem		1 390
8	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		822
9	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		486
10	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		207

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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 "No-go theorem" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) No-go theorem		1 093
2	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		90
3	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		74
4	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		59
5	French (fr) Théorème no-go		49
6	German (de) No-go-Theorem		46
7	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		39
8	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		14
9	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		7
10	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		3

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

Language versions of the article "No-go theorem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) No-go-Theorem		48
2	English (en) No-go theorem		44
3	French (fr) Théorème no-go		13
4	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		10
5	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		6
6	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		4
7	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		4
8	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		3
9	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		3
10	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		3

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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 "No-go theorem" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		0
2	German (de) No-go-Theorem		0
3	English (en) No-go theorem		0
4	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		0
5	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		0
6	French (fr) Théorème no-go		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		0
8	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		0
10	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		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 "No-go theorem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) No-go theorem		28
2	Spanish (es) Teorema de imposibilidad		19
3	German (de) No-go-Theorem		7
4	Chinese (zh) 不可行定理		7
5	Portuguese (pt) Teorema de impossibilidade		5
6	Ukrainian (uk) No-go-теорема		5
7	Catalan (ca) Teorema d'impossibilitat		4
8	Russian (ru) Теоремы запрета		4
9	French (fr) Théorème no-go		2
10	Basque (eu) Ezinezkotasunezko teorema		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Teorema d'impossibilitat
de	German No-go-Theorem
en	English No-go theorem
es	Spanish Teorema de imposibilidad
eu	Basque Ezinezkotasunezko teorema
fr	French Théorème no-go
pt	Portuguese Teorema de impossibilidade
ru	Russian Теоремы запрета
uk	Ukrainian No-go-теорема
zh	Chinese 不可行定理

Best Rank

English: #118173 10.2015

Global: #202881 10.2015

Best Rank

English: #61501 05.2024

Global: #101302 02.2013

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