Philip Ball

Quality:

Philip Ball - British science writer. Article "Philip Ball" in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 21 references and 5 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Philip Ball", its content was written by 73 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 140 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 120 times in English Wikipedia and cited 234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #43449 in February 2024
  • Global: #147246 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #306085 in February 2024
  • Global: #473053 in February 2024

There are 14 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Philip Ball
29.6031
2Swedish (sv)
Philip Ball
27.7121
3Estonian (et)
Philip Ball
24.7096
4Arabic (ar)
فيليب بال
23.0498
5Russian (ru)
Болл, Филип
22.9666
6French (fr)
Philip Ball
22.186
7Chinese (zh)
菲利普·鲍尔
20.5364
8Catalan (ca)
Philip Ball
13.6013
9German (de)
Philip Ball
10.6033
10Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
10.0778
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Philip Ball" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Philip Ball
234 004
2Spanish (es)
Philip Ball
25 785
3German (de)
Philip Ball
15 873
4Polish (pl)
Philip Ball
7 012
5Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
4 988
6Latin (la)
Philippus Ball
2 039
7French (fr)
Philip Ball
2 002
8Min Nan (zhminnan)
Philip Ball
1 906
9Swedish (sv)
Philip Ball
876
10Catalan (ca)
Philip Ball
606
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Philip Ball" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Philip Ball
1 633
2Spanish (es)
Philip Ball
118
3German (de)
Philip Ball
86
4French (fr)
Philip Ball
42
5Chinese (zh)
菲利普·鲍尔
41
6Russian (ru)
Болл, Филип
39
7Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
19
8Polish (pl)
Philip Ball
11
9Arabic (ar)
فيليب بال
7
10Swedish (sv)
Philip Ball
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Philip Ball" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Philip Ball
73
2German (de)
Philip Ball
19
3Polish (pl)
Philip Ball
10
4Latin (la)
Philippus Ball
7
5Min Nan (zhminnan)
Philip Ball
6
6Spanish (es)
Philip Ball
4
7Estonian (et)
Philip Ball
4
8Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
4
9Swedish (sv)
Philip Ball
4
10French (fr)
Philip Ball
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Philip Ball" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
فيليب بال
0
2Catalan (ca)
Philip Ball
0
3German (de)
Philip Ball
0
4English (en)
Philip Ball
0
5Spanish (es)
Philip Ball
0
6Estonian (et)
Philip Ball
0
7French (fr)
Philip Ball
0
8Latin (la)
Philippus Ball
0
9Polish (pl)
Philip Ball
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Philip Ball" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Philip Ball
120
2Spanish (es)
Philip Ball
33
3French (fr)
Philip Ball
17
4Portuguese (pt)
Philip Ball
12
5Arabic (ar)
فيليب بال
11
6German (de)
Philip Ball
11
7Polish (pl)
Philip Ball
7
8Catalan (ca)
Philip Ball
5
9Chinese (zh)
菲利普·鲍尔
5
10Min Nan (zhminnan)
Philip Ball
4
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
فيليب بال
caCatalan
Philip Ball
deGerman
Philip Ball
enEnglish
Philip Ball
esSpanish
Philip Ball
etEstonian
Philip Ball
frFrench
Philip Ball
laLatin
Philippus Ball
plPolish
Philip Ball
ptPortuguese
Philip Ball
ruRussian
Болл, Филип
svSwedish
Philip Ball
zhChinese
菲利普·鲍尔
zhminnanMin Nan
Philip Ball

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#306085
02.2024
Global:
#473053
02.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#43449
02.2024
Global:
#147246
10.2008

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Philip Ball from Wikipedia articles about Water fuel cell, Playing God, Phil Ball, Critical Mass and Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. Whereas reading the article about Philip Ball people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Critical Mass, Extended evolutionary synthesis, Nature, Royal Society Science Books Prize and Zipfs law.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zhminnan: Philip Ball

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