Paper knife

Paper knife - an implement used for cutting open sealed envelopes. Article “Paper knife” in English Wikipedia has 30.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Paper knife”, its content was written by 71 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 277 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in English Wikipedia and cited 388 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #68745 in February 2020
• Global: #20150 in May 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #209049 in June 2011
• Global: #238410 in June 2011

There are 18 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Papirkniv		54.0027
2	German (de) Brieföffner		30.8016
3	English (en) Paper knife		30.5705
4	Arabic (ar) قطاعة ورق		23.0897
5	French (fr) Coupe-papier		19.789
6	Romanian (ro) Tăietor de hârtie		15.2985
7	Korean (ko) 페이퍼 나이프		14.25
8	Catalan (ca) Tallapapers		12.8093
9	Danish (da) Brevkniv		12.5215
10	Persian (fa) چاقوی پاکت نامه		11.8835

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Paper knife" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paper knife		317 711
2	Japanese (ja) ペーパーナイフ		178 027
3	French (fr) Coupe-papier		70 708
4	Spanish (es) Abrecartas		54 392
5	German (de) Brieföffner		52 441
6	Chinese (zh) 開信刀		32 614
7	Italian (it) Tagliacarte		31 070
8	Dutch (nl) Briefopener		18 775
9	Persian (fa) چاقوی پاکت نامه		8 634
10	Swedish (sv) Brevkniv		7 562

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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 "Paper knife" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paper knife		1 919
2	Japanese (ja) ペーパーナイフ		306
3	French (fr) Coupe-papier		163
4	Chinese (zh) 開信刀		140
5	Spanish (es) Abrecartas		127
6	Italian (it) Tagliacarte		112
7	German (de) Brieföffner		109
8	Dutch (nl) Briefopener		45
9	Korean (ko) 페이퍼 나이프		35
10	Catalan (ca) Tallapapers		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paper knife		71
2	German (de) Brieföffner		51
3	Dutch (nl) Briefopener		38
4	French (fr) Coupe-papier		30
5	Japanese (ja) ペーパーナイフ		19
6	Swedish (sv) Brevkniv		12
7	Hebrew (he) סכין לפתיחת מכתבים		11
8	Italian (it) Tagliacarte		11
9	Chinese (zh) 開信刀		10
10	Catalan (ca) Tallapapers		7

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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 "Paper knife" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ペーパーナイフ		1
2	Arabic (ar) قطاعة ورق		0
3	Catalan (ca) Tallapapers		0
4	Danish (da) Brevkniv		0
5	German (de) Brieföffner		0
6	English (en) Paper knife		0
7	Spanish (es) Abrecartas		0
8	Basque (eu) Gutun-irekitzeko		0
9	Persian (fa) چاقوی پاکت نامه		0
10	French (fr) Coupe-papier		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 "Paper knife" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Swedish (sv) Brevkniv		158
2	English (en) Paper knife		48
3	Persian (fa) چاقوی پاکت نامه		42
4	French (fr) Coupe-papier		31
5	Japanese (ja) ペーパーナイフ		26
6	German (de) Brieföffner		17
7	Italian (it) Tagliacarte		13
8	Spanish (es) Abrecartas		12
9	Arabic (ar) قطاعة ورق		8
10	Chinese (zh) 開信刀		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قطاعة ورق
ca	Catalan Tallapapers
da	Danish Brevkniv
de	German Brieföffner
en	English Paper knife
es	Spanish Abrecartas
eu	Basque Gutun-irekitzeko
fa	Persian چاقوی پاکت نامه
fr	French Coupe-papier
he	Hebrew סכין לפתיחת מכתבים
it	Italian Tagliacarte
ja	Japanese ペーパーナイフ
ko	Korean 페이퍼 나이프
nl	Dutch Briefopener
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Papirkniv
ro	Romanian Tăietor de hârtie
sv	Swedish Brevkniv
zh	Chinese 開信刀

Best Rank

English: #209049 06.2011

Global: #238410 06.2011

Best Rank

English: #68745 02.2020

Global: #20150 05.2024

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