Operant conditioning

Quality:

Operant conditioning - learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences of one's own behavior. Article “Operant conditioning” in English Wikipedia has 69.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 99 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.65 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 “Operant conditioning”, its content was written by 381 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 507 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1859 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6698 in April 2003
• Global: #3267 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5745 in October 2013
• Global: #7209 in October 2013

There are 32 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) Operant conditioning		69.432
2	Ukrainian (uk) Оперантне обумовлення		61.5642
3	Chinese (zh) 操作制約		55.0225
4	German (de) Instrumentelle und operante Konditionierung		34.0037
5	Persian (fa) شرطی‌شدن فعال		27.4151
6	Korean (ko) 조작적 조건화		25.3387
7	Russian (ru) Оперантное обусловливание		25.3221
8	Czech (cs) Operantní podmiňování		23.4893
9	Dutch (nl) Operante conditionering		23.4873
10	Estonian (et) Operantne tingimine		21.3709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operant conditioning		9 467 728
2	Spanish (es) Condicionamiento operante		4 324 647
3	German (de) Instrumentelle und operante Konditionierung		1 593 393
4	Japanese (ja) オペラント条件づけ		1 429 019
5	Portuguese (pt) Condicionamento operante		981 336
6	Chinese (zh) 操作制約		660 467
7	French (fr) Conditionnement opérant		657 991
8	Dutch (nl) Operante conditionering		555 433
9	Polish (pl) Warunkowanie instrumentalne		519 676
10	Italian (it) Condizionamento operante		461 784

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) Operant conditioning		10 453
2	Japanese (ja) オペラント条件づけ		2 124
3	German (de) Instrumentelle und operante Konditionierung		1 638
4	Chinese (zh) 操作制約		893
5	Spanish (es) Condicionamiento operante		802
6	Persian (fa) شرطی‌شدن فعال		773
7	French (fr) Conditionnement opérant		771
8	Russian (ru) Оперантное обусловливание		732
9	Polish (pl) Warunkowanie instrumentalne		535
10	Korean (ko) 조작적 조건화		474

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operant conditioning		381
2	German (de) Instrumentelle und operante Konditionierung		171
3	Spanish (es) Condicionamiento operante		74
4	Hebrew (he) התניה אופרנטית		49
5	Dutch (nl) Operante conditionering		45
6	French (fr) Conditionnement opérant		44
7	Portuguese (pt) Condicionamento operante		43
8	Polish (pl) Warunkowanie instrumentalne		37
9	Japanese (ja) オペラント条件づけ		35
10	Italian (it) Condizionamento operante		31

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	Portuguese (pt) Condicionamento operante		2
2	French (fr) Conditionnement opérant		1
3	Simple English (simple) Operant conditioning		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Оперантне обумовлення		1
5	Arabic (ar) إشراط استثابي		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Оперантно кондициониране		0
7	Catalan (ca) Condicionament operant		0
8	Czech (cs) Operantní podmiňování		0
9	German (de) Instrumentelle und operante Konditionierung		0
10	English (en) Operant conditioning		0

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

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