Philosophy of biology

Philosophy of biology - subfield of philosophy of science. Article “Philosophy of biology” in English Wikipedia has 49.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 12 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 “Philosophy of biology”, its content was written by 144 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 498 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 408 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3434 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19306 in February 2005
• Global: #10949 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #186476 in November 2013
• Global: #201128 in April 2015

There are 24 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) Philosophie der Biologie		77.619
2	English (en) Philosophy of biology		49.6902
3	Spanish (es) Filosofía de la biología		33.1694
4	Dutch (nl) Filosofie van de biologie		30.5008
5	Russian (ru) Философия биологии		27.4985
6	Persian (fa) فلسفه زیست‌شناسی		26.5123
7	Italian (it) Filosofia della biologia		22.9366
8	Japanese (ja) 生物学の哲学		22.2186
9	Arabic (ar) فلسفة علم الأحياء		22.1327
10	French (fr) Philosophie de la biologie		21.6498

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Philosophy of biology" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Philosophy of biology		465 102
2	Spanish (es) Filosofía de la biología		134 114
3	Russian (ru) Философия биологии		77 066
4	Portuguese (pt) Filosofia da biologia		71 391
5	Japanese (ja) 生物学の哲学		63 421
6	German (de) Philosophie der Biologie		62 528
7	French (fr) Philosophie de la biologie		56 135
8	Italian (it) Filosofia della biologia		38 378
9	Chinese (zh) 生物學哲學		31 448
10	Persian (fa) فلسفه زیست‌شناسی		23 223

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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 "Philosophy of biology" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Philosophy of biology		2 045
2	German (de) Philosophie der Biologie		198
3	Russian (ru) Философия биологии		196
4	Italian (it) Filosofia della biologia		190
5	Chinese (zh) 生物學哲學		183
6	Spanish (es) Filosofía de la biología		136
7	Japanese (ja) 生物学の哲学		103
8	French (fr) Philosophie de la biologie		102
9	Turkish (tr) Biyoloji felsefesi		82
10	Portuguese (pt) Filosofia da biologia		51

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Philosophy of biology		144
2	German (de) Philosophie der Biologie		73
3	French (fr) Philosophie de la biologie		48
4	Italian (it) Filosofia della biologia		30
5	Norwegian (no) Biologiens filosofi		27
6	Chinese (zh) 生物學哲學		26
7	Japanese (ja) 生物学の哲学		22
8	Portuguese (pt) Filosofia da biologia		21
9	Turkish (tr) Biyoloji felsefesi		19
10	Spanish (es) Filosofía de la biología		14

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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 "Philosophy of biology" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Philosophie der Biologie		2
2	Arabic (ar) فلسفة علم الأحياء		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Filosofia da biologia		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Biologiya fəlsəfəsi		0
5	Czech (cs) Filozofie biologie		0
6	English (en) Philosophy of biology		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Filozofio de biologio		0
8	Spanish (es) Filosofía de la biología		0
9	Estonian (et) Bioloogia filosoofia		0
10	Basque (eu) Biologiaren filosofia		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 "Philosophy of biology" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) فلسفه زیست‌شناسی		556
2	English (en) Philosophy of biology		408
3	Turkish (tr) Biyoloji felsefesi		401
4	Chinese (zh) 生物學哲學		392
5	Japanese (ja) 生物学の哲学		277
6	Arabic (ar) فلسفة علم الأحياء		256
7	Portuguese (pt) Filosofia da biologia		232
8	Ukrainian (uk) Філософія біології		229
9	Italian (it) Filosofia della biologia		156
10	French (fr) Philosophie de la biologie		111

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فلسفة علم الأحياء
az	Azerbaijani Biologiya fəlsəfəsi
cs	Czech Filozofie biologie
de	German Philosophie der Biologie
en	English Philosophy of biology
eo	Esperanto Filozofio de biologio
es	Spanish Filosofía de la biología
et	Estonian Bioloogia filosoofia
eu	Basque Biologiaren filosofia
fa	Persian فلسفه زیست‌شناسی
fi	Finnish Biologian filosofia
fr	French Philosophie de la biologie
id	Indonesian Filsafat biologi
it	Italian Filosofia della biologia
ja	Japanese 生物学の哲学
ko	Korean 생물학철학
nl	Dutch Filosofie van de biologie
no	Norwegian Biologiens filosofi
pt	Portuguese Filosofia da biologia
ro	Romanian Filozofia biologiei
ru	Russian Философия биологии
tr	Turkish Biyoloji felsefesi
uk	Ukrainian Філософія біології
zh	Chinese 生物學哲學

Best Rank

English: #186476 11.2013

Global: #201128 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #19306 02.2005

Global: #10949 03.2012

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