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Prior art

Quality:

Prior art - legal notion of information related to proving an invention's originality. Article “Prior art” in English Wikipedia has 47.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Prior art”, its content was written by 97 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 276 times in English Wikipedia and cited 339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5628 in August 2004
  • Global: #27632 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #67909 in October 2014
  • Global: #127205 in October 2014

There are 5 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Prior art
47.8566
2Chinese (zh)
现有技术
27.2066
3German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
23.3247
4Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
12.1741
5Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
11.7778
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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 "Prior art" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Prior art
1 219 196
2Chinese (zh)
现有技术
51 560
3German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
25 686
4Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
19 518
5Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
718
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Prior art" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Prior art
2 764
2Chinese (zh)
现有技术
115
3German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
95
4Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
38
5Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
14
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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 "Prior art" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Prior art
97
2German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
12
3Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
10
4Chinese (zh)
现有技术
9
5Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
2
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Prior art" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
0
2German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
0
3English (en)
Prior art
0
4Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
0
5Chinese (zh)
现有技术
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 "Prior art" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Prior art
276
2Chinese (zh)
现有技术
21
3Arabic (ar)
معرفة مسبقة
19
4German (de)
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
19
5Ukrainian (uk)
Патентний пошук
4
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
معرفة مسبقة
deGerman
Stand der Technik (Patentrecht)
enEnglish
Prior art
ukUkrainian
Патентний пошук
zhChinese
现有技术

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#67909
10.2014
Global:
#127205
10.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5628
08.2004
Global:
#27632
08.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Prior art from Wikipedia articles about Jonas Salk, Illegal number, Stranger in a Strange Land, Inventive step and non-obviousness and Bully beef. Whereas reading the article about Prior art people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Inventive step and non-obviousness, Illegal number, Novelty, Priority right and Patent.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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