Scientific misconceptions

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Scientific misconceptions

Quality:

Scientific misconceptions - commonly held beliefs about science that have no basis in actual scientific fact. Article “Scientific misconceptions” in English Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Scientific misconceptions”, its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 155 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in English Wikipedia and cited 66 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #35104 in November 2018
  • Global: #30154 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #325579 in October 2019
  • Global: #488429 in October 2019

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
1German (de)
Präkonzept
41.2811
2English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
37.6307
3Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
37.627
4Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
17.5884
5Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
11.3438
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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 "Scientific misconceptions" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
192 503
2German (de)
Präkonzept
106 254
3Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
22 015
4Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
769
5Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
115
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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 "Scientific misconceptions" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
858
2German (de)
Präkonzept
210
3Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
39
4Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
34
5Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
7
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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 "Scientific misconceptions" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Präkonzept
68
2English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
61
3Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
22
4Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
3
5Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
1
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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 "Scientific misconceptions" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
0
2German (de)
Präkonzept
0
3English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
0
4Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
0
5Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
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 "Scientific misconceptions" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Hebrew (he)
תפיסה שגויה
26
2German (de)
Präkonzept
24
3English (en)
Scientific misconceptions
13
4Arabic (ar)
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
2
5Basque (eu)
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مفاهيم علمية خاطئة
deGerman
Präkonzept
enEnglish
Scientific misconceptions
euBasque
Natura zientzietako aurretiko ezaguerak
heHebrew
תפיסה שגויה

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#325579
10.2019
Global:
#488429
10.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35104
11.2018
Global:
#30154
07.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Scientific misconceptions from Wikipedia articles about List of common misconceptions, Formal fallacy, Misconception, Science education and List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics. Whereas reading the article about Scientific misconceptions people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of common misconceptions, Superseded scientific theory, List of fallacies, Constructivism in science education and Astronomical filter.

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