Separation of powers

Quality:

Separation of powers - division of government into branches such that legislative, executive, and judicial functions are exercised by distinct, separately constituted political bodies. Article "Separation of powers" in English Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5060^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3481^st most popular in all topics.

The 3692^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article "Separation of powers" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Separation of powers", its content was written by 1102 registered users of English Wikipedia (5060^th place) and edited by 4076 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3692^nd place).

The article is cited 2632 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12598 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #794 in January 2012
• Global: #781 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2499 in October 2008
• Global: #1945 in May 2020

There are 52 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Kuvvetler ayrılığı		67.3434
2	German (de) Gewaltenteilung		64.644
3	Chinese (zh) 權力分立		63.2902
4	Spanish (es) Separación de poderes		62.0352
5	Hebrew (he) הפרדת הרשויות		59.4372
6	French (fr) Séparation des pouvoirs		54.673
7	English (en) Separation of powers		42.9719
8	Japanese (ja) 権力分立		40.7686
9	Portuguese (pt) Separação de poderes		36.3594
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực phân lập		34.9473

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Separation of powers		12 508 643
2	Spanish (es) Separación de poderes		5 712 847
3	German (de) Gewaltenteilung		5 255 929
4	Russian (ru) Разделение властей		3 527 538
5	French (fr) Séparation des pouvoirs		2 773 684
6	Japanese (ja) 権力分立		2 214 695
7	Portuguese (pt) Separação de poderes		2 076 229
8	Dutch (nl) Trias politica		1 614 374
9	Polish (pl) Podział władz		1 375 487
10	Italian (it) Separazione dei poteri		1 341 472

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) Separation of powers		25 648
2	Spanish (es) Separación de poderes		10 278
3	Russian (ru) Разделение властей		5 227
4	Dutch (nl) Trias politica		4 295
5	Chinese (zh) 權力分立		4 003
6	German (de) Gewaltenteilung		3 684
7	Japanese (ja) 権力分立		2 903
8	Turkish (tr) Kuvvetler ayrılığı		2 451
9	French (fr) Séparation des pouvoirs		2 444
10	Korean (ko) 권력 분립		2 195

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Separation of powers		1 102
2	German (de) Gewaltenteilung		417
3	French (fr) Séparation des pouvoirs		296
4	Dutch (nl) Trias politica		206
5	Spanish (es) Separación de poderes		163
6	Chinese (zh) 權力分立		142
7	Russian (ru) Разделение властей		138
8	Japanese (ja) 権力分立		129
9	Hebrew (he) הפרדת הרשויות		124
10	Italian (it) Separazione dei poteri		118

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) Separation of powers		4
2	French (fr) Séparation des pouvoirs		3
3	Serbian (sr) Подјела власти		2
4	German (de) Gewaltenteilung		1
5	Hungarian (hu) A hatalmi ágak szétválasztása		1
6	Romanian (ro) Separația puterilor		1
7	Chinese (zh) 權力分立		1
8	Arabic (ar) فصل السلطات		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Hakimiyyət bölgüsü		0
10	Belarusian (be) Раздзяленне ўлад		0

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

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