Social science

Quality:

Social science - academic disciplines concerned with society and the relationships between individuals in society. Article “Social science” in English Wikipedia has 78.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 100 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.69 points.

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 7109^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 9371^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2840^th most popular in all topics.

The 6132^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Social science” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Social science”, its content was written by 874 registered users of English Wikipedia (9371^st place) and edited by 3265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6132^nd place).

The article is cited 5485 times in English Wikipedia (4316^th place) and cited 37493 times in all languages (4497^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #156 in August 2001
• Global: #165 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #484 in May 2011
• Global: #949 in August 2009

There are 55 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) Social science		78.1891
2	Spanish (es) Ciencias sociales		69.1927
3	Croatian (hr) Društvene znanosti		60
4	Korean (ko) 사회과학		57.5575
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Društvene nauke		56.6848
6	Persian (fa) علوم اجتماعی		44.7344
7	Chinese (zh) 社会科学		43.2549
8	German (de) Sozialwissenschaften		38.1544
9	Catalan (ca) Ciències socials		36.2005
10	French (fr) Sciences sociales		35.4507

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ciencias sociales		20 959 606
2	English (en) Social science		17 758 373
3	Portuguese (pt) Ciências sociais		3 264 003
4	German (de) Sozialwissenschaften		2 200 539
5	Russian (ru) Общественные науки		1 186 386
6	Indonesian (id) Ilmu sosial		1 173 933
7	Japanese (ja) 社会科学		978 916
8	Hindi (hi) सामाजिक विज्ञान		958 928
9	French (fr) Sciences sociales		826 345
10	Italian (it) Scienze sociali		822 159

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) Social science		27 817
2	Spanish (es) Ciencias sociales		5 202
3	German (de) Sozialwissenschaften		2 874
4	French (fr) Sciences sociales		2 386
5	Japanese (ja) 社会科学		1 979
6	Portuguese (pt) Ciências sociais		1 787
7	Chinese (zh) 社会科学		1 309
8	Russian (ru) Общественные науки		1 167
9	Persian (fa) علوم اجتماعی		1 030
10	Italian (it) Scienze sociali		894

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social science		874
2	Spanish (es) Ciencias sociales		360
3	German (de) Sozialwissenschaften		229
4	Italian (it) Scienze sociali		116
5	Portuguese (pt) Ciências sociais		100
6	Japanese (ja) 社会科学		81
7	Dutch (nl) Sociale wetenschappen		81
8	Turkish (tr) Sosyal bilimler		80
9	French (fr) Sciences sociales		79
10	Hebrew (he) מדעי החברה		77

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) Social science		4
2	French (fr) Sciences sociales		2
3	Serbian (sr) Društvene nauke		2
4	Catalan (ca) Ciències socials		1
5	Basque (eu) Gizarte-zientziak		1
6	Romanian (ro) Științe sociale		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Društvene nauke		1
8	Tamil (ta) சமூக அறிவியல்		1
9	Urdu (ur) معاشرتی علوم		1
10	Chinese (zh) 社会科学		1

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

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