Operation Paperclip

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Operation Paperclip - secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government. This event is the 349^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 205^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Paperclip” in English Wikipedia has 84 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 96 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.42 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 205^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 349^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Operation Paperclip” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Paperclip”, its content was written by 546 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1452 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Paperclip is on the 205^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 349^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1748 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6499 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1341 in June 2003
• Global: #4572 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #622 in March 2020
• Global: #1466 in March 2020

There are 36 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) Operation Paperclip		84.0149
2	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Συνδετήρας		73.1003
3	Danish (da) Operation Paperclip		71.7234
4	German (de) Operation Overcast		67.0737
5	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		60.7047
6	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		60.5401
7	Hungarian (hu) Gemkapocs művelet		60.3827
8	Catalan (ca) Operació Paperclip		54.6498
9	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		49.1494
10	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		46.8726

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		14 400 340
2	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		906 979
3	German (de) Operation Overcast		831 265
4	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		722 071
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		533 760
6	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		418 854
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Paperclip		369 095
8	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		339 013
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		282 823
10	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		198 797

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) Operation Paperclip		51 777
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		2 714
3	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		2 657
4	German (de) Operation Overcast		2 421
5	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		2 275
6	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		1 311
7	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		1 246
8	Chinese (zh) 回纹针行动		1 154
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Paperclip		1 114
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Paperclip		920

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Paperclip		546
2	German (de) Operation Overcast		183
3	French (fr) Opération Paperclip		115
4	Spanish (es) Operación Paperclip		77
5	Italian (it) Operazione Paperclip		66
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Скрепка»		47
7	Turkish (tr) Paperclip Harekâtı		35
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע מהדק נייר		34
9	Japanese (ja) ペーパークリップ作戦		31
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Paperclip		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	English (en) Operation Paperclip		3
2	Arabic (ar) عملية مشبك الورق		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sancaq əməliyyatı		1
4	Catalan (ca) Operació Paperclip		1
5	Danish (da) Operation Paperclip		1
6	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Συνδετήρας		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Gemkapocs művelet		1
8	Urdu (ur) آپریشن پیپر کلپ		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Кламер“		0
10	Czech (cs) Operace Paperclip		0

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

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