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Reference work

Quality:

Reference work - genre of work to which one can refer for confirmed facts. Article "Reference work" in English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Reference work" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Reference work", its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 818 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3271 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #952 in May 2003
  • Global: #446 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #47295 in June 2010
  • Global: #61946 in June 2010

There are 35 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
1Dutch (nl)
Naslagwerk
36.0324
2Greek (el)
Έργο αναφοράς
33.6224
3English (en)
Reference work
30.0709
4Malay (ms)
Karya rujukan
28.5549
5Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
28.3274
6Russian (ru)
Справочник
27.1203
7Estonian (et)
Teatmeteos
26.7504
8Croatian (hr)
Referentno djelo
25.1084
9Belarusian (be)
Даведнік
24.1492
10Kazakh (kk)
Анықтамалық басылым
22.0543
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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 "Reference work" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reference work
1 712 197
2German (de)
Nachschlagewerk
370 751
3Russian (ru)
Справочник
212 093
4Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
199 804
5French (fr)
Ouvrage de référence
184 054
6Dutch (nl)
Naslagwerk
89 501
7Chinese (zh)
工具书
83 378
8Ukrainian (uk)
Довідник
68 900
9Persian (fa)
کتاب مرجع
48 411
10Portuguese (pt)
Obra de referência
44 970
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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 "Reference work" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reference work
9 777
2German (de)
Nachschlagewerk
801
3Russian (ru)
Справочник
629
4French (fr)
Ouvrage de référence
488
5Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
358
6Chinese (zh)
工具书
327
7Japanese (ja)
参考図書
122
8Portuguese (pt)
Obra de referência
108
9Greek (el)
Έργο αναφοράς
105
10Ukrainian (uk)
Довідник
90
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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 "Reference work" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reference work
179
2German (de)
Nachschlagewerk
132
3Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
51
4French (fr)
Ouvrage de référence
41
5Dutch (nl)
Naslagwerk
36
6Russian (ru)
Справочник
31
7Norwegian (no)
Oppslagsverk
27
8Chinese (zh)
工具书
25
9Ukrainian (uk)
Довідник
21
10Persian (fa)
کتاب مرجع
11
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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 "Reference work" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reference work
2
2Portuguese (pt)
Obra de referência
1
3Arabic (ar)
عمل مرجعي
0
4Belarusian (be)
Даведнік
0
5Catalan (ca)
Obra de referència
0
6German (de)
Nachschlagewerk
0
7Greek (el)
Έργο αναφοράς
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Referencverko
0
9Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
0
10Estonian (et)
Teatmeteos
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 "Reference work" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Reference work
818
2German (de)
Nachschlagewerk
655
3Russian (ru)
Справочник
301
4French (fr)
Ouvrage de référence
217
5Chinese (zh)
工具书
151
6Ukrainian (uk)
Довідник
145
7Greek (el)
Έργο αναφοράς
120
8Dutch (nl)
Naslagwerk
109
9Spanish (es)
Obra de referencia
85
10Catalan (ca)
Obra de referència
76
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
عمل مرجعي
beBelarusian
Даведнік
caCatalan
Obra de referència
deGerman
Nachschlagewerk
elGreek
Έργο αναφοράς
enEnglish
Reference work
eoEsperanto
Referencverko
esSpanish
Obra de referencia
etEstonian
Teatmeteos
euBasque
Erreferentzia-lan
faPersian
کتاب مرجع
fiFinnish
Hakuteos
frFrench
Ouvrage de référence
heHebrew
ספר יעץ
hrCroatian
Referentno djelo
hyArmenian
Ուղեցույց
idIndonesian
Karya rujukan
itItalian
Opera di riferimento
jaJapanese
参考図書
kkKazakh
Анықтамалық басылым
koKorean
참고서
ltLithuanian
Žinynas
msMalay
Karya rujukan
nlDutch
Naslagwerk
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Oppslagsverk
noNorwegian
Oppslagsverk
ptPortuguese
Obra de referência
ruRussian
Справочник
skSlovak
Príručková publikácia
svSwedish
Referenslitteratur
thThai
งานอ้างอิง
trTurkish
Referans çalışması
ukUkrainian
Довідник
urUrdu
حوالہ جاتی مواد
zhChinese
工具书

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#47295
06.2010
Global:
#61946
06.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#952
05.2003
Global:
#446
08.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Reference work from Wikipedia articles about Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Guinness World Records, Fact and Dictionary. Whereas reading the article about Reference work people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Electronic publishing, Academic publishing, Book, Library reference service and Periodical.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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