Referential transparency

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Referential transparency

Quality:

Referential transparency - property of a computer software expression or subroutine that replacing it in the code with its evaluated result does not change the program's behavior. Article “Referential transparency” in English Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 10 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 “Referential transparency”, its content was written by 107 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 274 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 53 times in English Wikipedia and cited 181 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9243 in November 2002
  • Global: #14756 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #165775 in January 2008
  • Global: #207050 in January 2008

There are 16 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, 2026 (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)
Referential transparency
26.6758
2Chinese (zh)
引用透明性
18.7568
3Polish (pl)
Przejrzystość referencyjna
15.9222
4Simple English (simple)
Referential transparency
14.9626
5German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
10.7329
6Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
10.1938
7Ukrainian (uk)
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
10.1603
8French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
8.4389
9Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
6.2225
10Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
5.0124
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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 "Referential transparency" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Referential transparency
675 770
2Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
103 541
3Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
53 032
4German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
39 787
5French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
25 882
6Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
21 928
7Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
12 660
8Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
9 470
9Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
6 250
10Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
4 077
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Referential transparency" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Referential transparency
1 290
2Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
172
3Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
60
4German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
48
5Chinese (zh)
引用透明性
44
6French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
38
7Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
31
8Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
29
9Polish (pl)
Przejrzystość referencyjna
20
10Simple English (simple)
Referential transparency
20
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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 "Referential transparency" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Referential transparency
107
2French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
36
3German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
33
4Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
20
5Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
19
6Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
10
7Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
9
8Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
7
9Ukrainian (uk)
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
7
10Malay (ms)
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
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 2026

Language versions of the article "Referential transparency" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
2
2Czech (cs)
Referenční průhlednost
0
3German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
0
4English (en)
Referential transparency
0
5Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
0
6French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
0
7Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
0
8Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
0
9Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
0
10Malay (ms)
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
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 "Referential transparency" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Referential transparency
53
2Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
27
3French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
17
4German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
13
5Czech (cs)
Referenční průhlednost
10
6Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
10
7Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
9
8Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
9
9Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
8
10Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
7
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شفافية مرجعية
csCzech
Referenční průhlednost
deGerman
Referenzielle Transparenz
enEnglish
Referential transparency
esSpanish
Transparencia referencial
frFrench
Transparence référentielle
itItalian
Trasparenza referenziale
jaJapanese
参照透過性
koKorean
참조 투명성
msMalay
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
nlDutch
Referentiële transparantie
plPolish
Przejrzystość referencyjna
ruRussian
Ссылочная прозрачность
simpleSimple English
Referential transparency
ukUkrainian
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
zhChinese
引用透明性

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#165775
01.2008
Global:
#207050
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9243
11.2002
Global:
#14756
11.2002

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Referential transparency from Wikipedia articles about Idempotence, Declarative programming, Pure function, Functional programming and Command–query separation. Whereas reading the article about Referential transparency people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rewriting, Liskov substitution principle, Lambda calculus, Analytic philosophy and Opaque context.

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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