Scientific method

Quality:

Scientific method - techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses; in particular mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences. Article “Scientific method” in English Wikipedia has 94.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 348 references and 46 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3324^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 4512^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1193^rd most popular in all topics.

The 4564^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Scientific method” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Scientific method”, its content was written by 1184 registered users of English Wikipedia (4512^th place) and edited by 3756 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4564^th place).

The article is cited 2908 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15778 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18 in November 2003
• Global: #18 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #259 in June 2013
• Global: #200 in September 2009

There are 51 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Scientific method		94.6012
2	Uzbek (uz) Ilmiy metod		90.2896
3	Korean (ko) 과학적 방법		89.0028
4	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		79.0288
5	Hebrew (he) השיטה המדעית		72.1687
6	Spanish (es) Método científico		67.1288
7	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		64.3823
8	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		63.833
9	Catalan (ca) Mètode científic		54.3352
10	Simple English (simple) Scientific method		51.639

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Método científico		41 026 673
2	English (en) Scientific method		26 335 413
3	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		5 167 768
4	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		2 654 347
5	Russian (ru) Научный метод		2 277 507
6	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		2 010 666
7	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		1 279 816
8	Arabic (ar) منهج علمي		1 140 450
9	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		583 250
10	Thai (th) ระเบียบวิธีแบบวิทยาศาสตร์		563 619

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scientific method		28 432
2	Spanish (es) Método científico		10 106
3	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		2 926
4	Russian (ru) Научный метод		2 521
5	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		1 735
6	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		1 729
7	Chinese (zh) 科学方法		1 090
8	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		1 011
9	Persian (fa) روش علمی		889
10	Hebrew (he) השיטה המדעית		587

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scientific method		1 184
2	Spanish (es) Método científico		410
3	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		259
4	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		258
5	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		160
6	Russian (ru) Научный метод		133
7	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		114
8	Hebrew (he) השיטה המדעית		96
9	Dutch (nl) Wetenschappelijke methode		96
10	Simple English (simple) Scientific method		81

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Método científico		3
2	Serbian (sr) Naučna metoda		3
3	Uzbek (uz) Ilmiy metod		2
4	Arabic (ar) منهج علمي		1
5	English (en) Scientific method		1
6	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		1
7	Galician (gl) Método científico		1
8	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		1
9	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		1
10	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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