Source (journalism)

Source - term in journalism referring to a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information. Article "Source (journalism)" in English Wikipedia has 46 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 12 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Source (journalism)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Source (journalism)", its content was written by 177 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 319 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 401 times in English Wikipedia and cited 875 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6353 in May 2004
• Global: #21166 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52150 in September 2009
• Global: #79173 in September 2009

There are 13 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	English (en) Source (journalism)		46.0147
2	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		35.4288
3	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		30.9768
4	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		26.8083
5	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		25.5666
6	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		25.0861
7	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		24.121
8	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		18.8836
9	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		18.724
10	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		18.558

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Source (journalism)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		1 475 421
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		739 184
3	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		155 085
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		41 351
5	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		18 934
6	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		9 970
7	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		8 007
8	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		4 361
9	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		4 231
10	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		4 132

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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 "Source (journalism)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		3 601
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		354
3	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		169
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		64
5	Simple English (simple) Journalism sourcing		55
6	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		51
7	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		49
8	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		40
9	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		30
10	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		177
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		41
3	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		27
4	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		23
5	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		9
6	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		8
7	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		8
8	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		6
9	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		6
10	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		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 "Source (journalism)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		1
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		1
3	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		1
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		0
6	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		0
7	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		0
8	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		0
9	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		0
10	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		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 "Source (journalism)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		401
2	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		116
3	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		90
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		88
5	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		62
6	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		45
7	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		22
8	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		20
9	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		13
10	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مصدر (صحافة)
ca	Catalan Font periodística
da	Danish Kilde (journalistik)
el	Greek Δημοσιογραφική πηγή
en	English Source (journalism)
es	Spanish Fuente periodística
fa	Persian منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)
he	Hebrew מקור (עיתונות)
ko	Korean 소스 (언론)
no	Norwegian Kilde (journalistikk)
pl	Polish Źródło (dziennikarstwo)
pt	Portuguese Fonte (jornalismo)
simple	Simple English Journalism sourcing

Best Rank

English: #52150 09.2009

Global: #79173 09.2009

Best Rank

English: #6353 05.2004

Global: #21166 05.2004

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