Scientific theory

Quality:

Scientific theory - explanation of some aspect of the natural world which can be tested and corroborated. Article "Scientific theory" in English Wikipedia has 71.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 75 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In July 2024 the article "Scientific theory" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Scientific theory", its content was written by 327 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 702 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 559 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2989 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1813 in September 2019
• Global: #9278 in September 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4513 in September 2014
• Global: #10179 in September 2014

There are 31 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Chinese (zh) 科学理论		76.8716
2	English (en) Scientific theory		71.5269
3	Romanian (ro) Teorie științifică		55.6485
4	Japanese (ja) 科学理論		48.0709
5	Catalan (ca) Teoria científica		45.4493
6	Persian (fa) نظریه علمی		45.2467
7	Spanish (es) Teoría científica		42.3077
8	Turkish (tr) Bilimsel teori		41.9722
9	Serbian (sr) Naučna teorija		36.8744
10	Hebrew (he) תאוריה מדעית		34.8947

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scientific theory		4 909 164
2	Spanish (es) Teoría científica		2 798 539
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية علمية		479 208
4	Polish (pl) Teoria naukowa		198 408
5	Simple English (simple) Scientific theory		184 795
6	Swedish (sv) Vetenskaplig teori		160 955
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria científica		156 363
8	Russian (ru) Научная теория		145 809
9	Ukrainian (uk) Наукова теорія		76 848
10	Turkish (tr) Bilimsel teori		70 935

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 theory		14 238
2	Spanish (es) Teoría científica		5 530
3	Portuguese (pt) Teoria científica		940
4	Russian (ru) Научная теория		696
5	Persian (fa) نظریه علمی		563
6	Polish (pl) Teoria naukowa		527
7	Arabic (ar) نظرية علمية		492
8	Simple English (simple) Scientific theory		466
9	Chinese (zh) 科学理论		407
10	Turkish (tr) Bilimsel teori		321

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scientific theory		327
2	Spanish (es) Teoría científica		83
3	Polish (pl) Teoria naukowa		30
4	Galician (gl) Teoría científica		29
5	Simple English (simple) Scientific theory		26
6	Arabic (ar) نظرية علمية		16
7	Russian (ru) Научная теория		16
8	Swedish (sv) Vetenskaplig teori		16
9	Tamil (ta) அறிவியல் கோட்பாடு		16
10	Persian (fa) نظریه علمی		15

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	English (en) Scientific theory		3
2	Serbian (sr) Naučna teorija		3
3	Russian (ru) Научная теория		2
4	Spanish (es) Teoría científica		1
5	Romanian (ro) Teorie științifică		1
6	Arabic (ar) نظرية علمية		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Elmi nəzəriyyə		0
8	Catalan (ca) Teoria científica		0
9	Czech (cs) Teorie (přírodní věda)		0
10	Greek (el) Επιστημονική θεωρία		0

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

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