Soft law

Soft law - legal concept of non-bonding principles. Article “Soft law” in English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Soft law”, its content was written by 46 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 116 times in English Wikipedia and cited 316 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49559 in October 2016
• Global: #53589 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #195064 in October 2013
• Global: #172329 in November 2018

There are 18 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	Hebrew (he) משפט רך		38.8778
2	German (de) Soft Law		37.7685
3	French (fr) Droit souple		27.0979
4	Czech (cs) Soft law		26.9456
5	Dutch (nl) Soft law		23.514
6	English (en) Soft law		22.494
7	Russian (ru) Мягкое право		21.2403
8	Italian (it) Soft law		15.3221
9	Azerbaijani (az) Yumşaq hüquq		12.4866
10	Indonesian (id) Soft law		12.1391

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Soft law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soft law		580 946
2	French (fr) Droit souple		210 095
3	Italian (it) Soft law		157 496
4	Russian (ru) Мягкое право		115 209
5	German (de) Soft Law		92 687
6	Polish (pl) Miękkie prawo		75 849
7	Ukrainian (uk) М'яке право		54 126
8	Portuguese (pt) Quase-Direito		37 959
9	Korean (ko) 연성법		21 194
10	Chinese (zh) 软法		19 145

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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 "Soft law" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soft law		454
2	Russian (ru) Мягкое право		129
3	French (fr) Droit souple		117
4	German (de) Soft Law		102
5	Italian (it) Soft law		100
6	Polish (pl) Miękkie prawo		87
7	Chinese (zh) 软法		75
8	Korean (ko) 연성법		43
9	Ukrainian (uk) М'яке право		25
10	Czech (cs) Soft law		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Droit souple		61
2	English (en) Soft law		46
3	Italian (it) Soft law		34
4	German (de) Soft Law		29
5	Hebrew (he) משפט רך		15
6	Polish (pl) Miękkie prawo		13
7	Ukrainian (uk) М'яке право		13
8	Russian (ru) Мягкое право		12
9	Portuguese (pt) Quase-Direito		6
10	Korean (ko) 연성법		5

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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 "Soft law" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Yumşaq hüquq		1
2	Arabic (ar) قانون لين		0
3	Czech (cs) Soft law		0
4	German (de) Soft Law		0
5	English (en) Soft law		0
6	Estonian (et) Pehme õigus		0
7	French (fr) Droit souple		0
8	Hebrew (he) משפט רך		0
9	Indonesian (id) Soft law		0
10	Italian (it) Soft law		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 "Soft law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Soft law		116
2	French (fr) Droit souple		61
3	German (de) Soft Law		25
4	Ukrainian (uk) М'яке право		19
5	Italian (it) Soft law		17
6	Russian (ru) Мягкое право		17
7	Korean (ko) 연성법		13
8	Dutch (nl) Soft law		11
9	Chinese (zh) 软法		8
10	Arabic (ar) قانون لين		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قانون لين
az	Azerbaijani Yumşaq hüquq
cs	Czech Soft law
de	German Soft Law
en	English Soft law
et	Estonian Pehme õigus
fr	French Droit souple
he	Hebrew משפט רך
id	Indonesian Soft law
it	Italian Soft law
ko	Korean 연성법
nl	Dutch Soft law
pl	Polish Miękkie prawo
pt	Portuguese Quase-Direito
ro	Romanian Lege neobligatorie
ru	Russian Мягкое право
uk	Ukrainian М'яке право
zh	Chinese 软法

Best Rank

English: #195064 10.2013

Global: #172329 11.2018

Best Rank

English: #49559 10.2016

Global: #53589 10.2005

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