Social welfare function

Social welfare function - function that ranks states of society according to their desirability. Article “Social welfare function” in English Wikipedia has 24 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.99 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Social welfare function” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Social welfare function”, its content was written by 85 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 104 times in English Wikipedia and cited 229 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2239 in July 2003
• Global: #7417 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93155 in October 2013
• Global: #150433 in September 2010

There are 12 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	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		27.5451
2	English (en) Social welfare function		23.9813
3	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		20.5752
4	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		16.7648
5	Hungarian (hu) Társadalmi jóléti függvény		15.2987
6	Czech (cs) Funkce sociálního zabezpečení		13.9571
7	Arabic (ar) دالة الرفاه الاجتماعي		13.358
8	Norwegian (no) Velferdsfunksjon		11.9719
9	Japanese (ja) 社会的厚生関数		9.1976
10	Polish (pl) Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego		7.3014

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Social welfare function" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social welfare function		1 165 656
2	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		105 307
3	Polish (pl) Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego		24 143
4	Japanese (ja) 社会的厚生関数		21 169
5	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		16 890
6	Hebrew (he) פונקציית רווחה חברתית		13 260
7	Portuguese (pt) Função de bem-estar social		13 124
8	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		1 426
9	Czech (cs) Funkce sociálního zabezpečení		1 313
10	Hungarian (hu) Társadalmi jóléti függvény		832

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Social welfare function" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social welfare function		2 848
2	Japanese (ja) 社会的厚生関数		190
3	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		135
4	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		34
5	Polish (pl) Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego		33
6	Portuguese (pt) Função de bem-estar social		25
7	Hebrew (he) פונקציית רווחה חברתית		18
8	Hungarian (hu) Társadalmi jóléti függvény		15
9	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		14
10	Czech (cs) Funkce sociálního zabezpečení		10

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

Language versions of the article "Social welfare function" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social welfare function		85
2	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		34
3	Hebrew (he) פונקציית רווחה חברתית		14
4	Polish (pl) Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego		13
5	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		10
6	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		5
7	Hungarian (hu) Társadalmi jóléti függvény		5
8	Czech (cs) Funkce sociálního zabezpečení		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Função de bem-estar social		3
10	Norwegian (no) Velferdsfunksjon		2

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

Language versions of the article "Social welfare function" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social welfare function		1
2	Arabic (ar) دالة الرفاه الاجتماعي		0
3	Czech (cs) Funkce sociálního zabezpečení		0
4	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		0
5	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		0
6	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		0
7	Hebrew (he) פונקציית רווחה חברתית		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Társadalmi jóléti függvény		0
9	Japanese (ja) 社会的厚生関数		0
10	Norwegian (no) Velferdsfunksjon		0

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

Language versions of the article "Social welfare function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Social welfare function		104
2	German (de) Wohlfahrtsfunktion		36
3	Danish (da) Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion		20
4	Persian (fa) تابع رفاه اجتماعی		17
5	Hebrew (he) פונקציית רווחה חברתית		12
6	Polish (pl) Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego		11
7	Portuguese (pt) Função de bem-estar social		11
8	Norwegian (no) Velferdsfunksjon		6
9	Arabic (ar) دالة الرفاه الاجتماعي		5
10	Japanese (ja) 社会的厚生関数		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دالة الرفاه الاجتماعي
cs	Czech Funkce sociálního zabezpečení
da	Danish Samfundsvelfærdsfunktion
de	German Wohlfahrtsfunktion
en	English Social welfare function
fa	Persian تابع رفاه اجتماعی
he	Hebrew פונקציית רווחה חברתית
hu	Hungarian Társadalmi jóléti függvény
ja	Japanese 社会的厚生関数
no	Norwegian Velferdsfunksjon
pl	Polish Funkcja dobrobytu społecznego
pt	Portuguese Função de bem-estar social

Best Rank

English: #93155 10.2013

Global: #150433 09.2010

Best Rank

English: #2239 07.2003

Global: #7417 07.2003

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