Pure Theory of Law

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Pure Theory of Law

Quality:

Pure Theory of Law - book by Hans Kelsen. This book is the 2228th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Pure Theory of Law” in English Wikipedia has 49.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.6 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2228th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Pure Theory of Law”, its content was written by 47 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 249 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pure Theory of Law is on the 2228th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 178 times in English Wikipedia and cited 313 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #41537 in October 2023
  • Global: #29416 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #263589 in November 2015
  • Global: #93075 in December 2020

There are 12 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)
Pure Theory of Law
49.4723
2German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
33.8918
3Portuguese (pt)
Teoria Pura do Direito
30.716
4Turkish (tr)
Saf Hukuk Kuramı
17.0025
5French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
12.3562
6Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
12.3496
7Czech (cs)
Ryzí nauka právní
10.6501
8Hindi (hi)
शुद्ध विधि का सिद्धान्त
10.0711
9Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
6.6397
10Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
4.5358
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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 "Pure Theory of Law" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
719 627
2Portuguese (pt)
Teoria Pura do Direito
577 705
3English (en)
Pure Theory of Law
412 125
4Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
185 330
5German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
179 657
6Turkish (tr)
Saf Hukuk Kuramı
128 502
7Polish (pl)
Normatywizm
83 645
8Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
60 318
9Hindi (hi)
शुद्ध विधि का सिद्धान्त
39 006
10French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
25 214
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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 "Pure Theory of Law" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Pure Theory of Law
1 817
2Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
659
3Portuguese (pt)
Teoria Pura do Direito
617
4German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
409
5French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
156
6Polish (pl)
Normatywizm
138
7Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
137
8Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
134
9Turkish (tr)
Saf Hukuk Kuramı
93
10Czech (cs)
Ryzí nauka právní
82
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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 "Pure Theory of Law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
53
2English (en)
Pure Theory of Law
47
3Portuguese (pt)
Teoria Pura do Direito
47
4Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
31
5Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
18
6Polish (pl)
Normatywizm
14
7Czech (cs)
Ryzí nauka právní
12
8Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
11
9French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
6
10Turkish (tr)
Saf Hukuk Kuramı
5
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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 "Pure Theory of Law" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Ryzí nauka právní
1
2German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
0
3English (en)
Pure Theory of Law
0
4Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
0
5French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
0
6Hindi (hi)
शुद्ध विधि का सिद्धान्त
0
7Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
0
8Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
0
9Korean (ko)
순수 법학
0
10Polish (pl)
Normatywizm
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 "Pure Theory of Law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Pure Theory of Law
178
2German (de)
Reine Rechtslehre
51
3Portuguese (pt)
Teoria Pura do Direito
24
4Japanese (ja)
純粋法学
17
5Spanish (es)
Teoría pura del derecho
11
6Korean (ko)
순수 법학
6
7Polish (pl)
Normatywizm
6
8Czech (cs)
Ryzí nauka právní
5
9French (fr)
Théorie pure du droit
5
10Indonesian (id)
Teori Hukum Murni
5
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Ryzí nauka právní
deGerman
Reine Rechtslehre
enEnglish
Pure Theory of Law
esSpanish
Teoría pura del derecho
frFrench
Théorie pure du droit
hiHindi
शुद्ध विधि का सिद्धान्त
idIndonesian
Teori Hukum Murni
jaJapanese
純粋法学
koKorean
순수 법학
plPolish
Normatywizm
ptPortuguese
Teoria Pura do Direito
trTurkish
Saf Hukuk Kuramı

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#263589
11.2015
Global:
#93075
12.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#41537
10.2023
Global:
#29416
12.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Pure Theory of Law from Wikipedia articles about Hans Kelsen, Basic norm, Legal positivism, The Concept of Law and Constitution. Whereas reading the article about Pure Theory of Law people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Hans Kelsen, Legal positivism, Carl Schmitt, Jurisprudence and Rechtsstaat.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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