Principal value

Principal value - values along one branch of a multivalued function so that it is single-valued. Article “Principal value” in English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.7 points.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Principal value”, its content was written by 33 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 59 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in English Wikipedia and cited 102 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #53261 in December 2003
• Global: #76681 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #277153 in November 2010
• Global: #416289 in November 2010

There are 6 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	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		34.951
2	Spanish (es) Valor principal		13.6816
3	English (en) Principal value		13.3156
4	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		13.0877
5	Japanese (ja) 主値		5.1773
6	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		2.872

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Principal value" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principal value		394 999
2	Japanese (ja) 主値		68 357
3	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		6 728
4	Spanish (es) Valor principal		3 378
5	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		2 475
6	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		857

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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 "Principal value" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principal value		1 247
2	Japanese (ja) 主値		247
3	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		73
4	Spanish (es) Valor principal		43
5	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		27
6	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Principal value		33
2	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		13
3	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		6
4	Japanese (ja) 主値		4
5	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		2
6	Spanish (es) Valor principal		1

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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 "Principal value" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		0
2	English (en) Principal value		0
3	Spanish (es) Valor principal		0
4	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		0
5	Japanese (ja) 主値		0
6	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		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 "Principal value" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Principal value		32
2	Japanese (ja) 主値		22
3	French (fr) Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée		21
4	Catalan (ca) Valor principal		10
5	Spanish (es) Valor principal		10
6	Swedish (sv) Principalvärde		7

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Valor principal
en	English Principal value
es	Spanish Valor principal
fr	French Détermination d'une fonction multivaluée
ja	Japanese 主値
sv	Swedish Principalvärde

Best Rank

English: #277153 11.2010

Global: #416289 11.2010

Best Rank

English: #53261 12.2003

Global: #76681 12.2003

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