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Source criticism

Quality:

Source criticism - process of evaluating an information source. Article "Source criticism" in English Wikipedia has 31.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Source criticism", its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 600 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 246 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1374 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #30450 in September 2010
  • Global: #17597 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #108073 in December 2014
  • Global: #81549 in December 2014

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Swedish (sv)
Källkritik
72.3373
2Danish (da)
Kildekritik
39.0335
3German (de)
Quellenkritik
36.0751
4Catalan (ca)
Avaluació de fonts d'informació
32.0885
5English (en)
Source criticism
31.7692
6Spanish (es)
Crítica de la fuente
31.58
7Finnish (fi)
Lähdekritiikki
30.9999
8Turkish (tr)
Kaynak eleştirisi
30.678
9Hebrew (he)
הערכת מקורות
22.0503
10Arabic (ar)
نقد المصدر
19.3238
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Source criticism" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Swedish (sv)
Källkritik
688 143
2English (en)
Source criticism
613 720
3Danish (da)
Kildekritik
298 444
4German (de)
Quellenkritik
245 668
5Japanese (ja)
史料批判
158 541
6Finnish (fi)
Lähdekritiikki
122 943
7Polish (pl)
Krytyka źródeł
108 423
8Norwegian (no)
Kildekritikk
103 495
9Kazakh (kk)
Деректану
43 298
10Spanish (es)
Crítica de la fuente
39 405
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Source criticism" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Source criticism
4 389
2Japanese (ja)
史料批判
628
3Swedish (sv)
Källkritik
455
4German (de)
Quellenkritik
335
5Danish (da)
Kildekritik
216
6Spanish (es)
Crítica de la fuente
152
7Polish (pl)
Krytyka źródeł
142
8Russian (ru)
Историческая критика
142
9Norwegian (no)
Kildekritikk
113
10Chinese (zh)
來源批判學
86
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Source criticism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Swedish (sv)
Källkritik
130
2English (en)
Source criticism
123
3German (de)
Quellenkritik
63
4Danish (da)
Kildekritik
62
5Norwegian (no)
Kildekritikk
50
6Finnish (fi)
Lähdekritiikki
38
7Japanese (ja)
史料批判
36
8Chinese (zh)
來源批判學
15
9Polish (pl)
Krytyka źródeł
14
10Hebrew (he)
הערכת מקורות
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Source criticism" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
نقد المصدر
1
2Danish (da)
Kildekritik
1
3Catalan (ca)
Avaluació de fonts d'informació
0
4German (de)
Quellenkritik
0
5English (en)
Source criticism
0
6Spanish (es)
Crítica de la fuente
0
7Estonian (et)
Allikakriitika
0
8Finnish (fi)
Lähdekritiikki
0
9Hebrew (he)
הערכת מקורות
0
10Armenian (hy)
Աղբյուրագիտություն
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Source criticism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Source criticism
246
2Japanese (ja)
史料批判
242
3Swedish (sv)
Källkritik
208
4Ukrainian (uk)
Критика історичних джерел
155
5German (de)
Quellenkritik
105
6Danish (da)
Kildekritik
95
7Finnish (fi)
Lähdekritiikki
51
8Hebrew (he)
הערכת מקורות
49
9Armenian (hy)
Աղբյուրագիտություն
48
10Norwegian (no)
Kildekritikk
41
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نقد المصدر
caCatalan
Avaluació de fonts d'informació
daDanish
Kildekritik
deGerman
Quellenkritik
enEnglish
Source criticism
esSpanish
Crítica de la fuente
etEstonian
Allikakriitika
fiFinnish
Lähdekritiikki
heHebrew
הערכת מקורות
hyArmenian
Աղբյուրագիտություն
idIndonesian
Kritik sumber
jaJapanese
史料批判
kkKazakh
Деректану
koKorean
사료 비판
noNorwegian
Kildekritikk
plPolish
Krytyka źródeł
ruRussian
Историческая критика
svSwedish
Källkritik
trTurkish
Kaynak eleştirisi
ukUkrainian
Критика історичних джерел
zhChinese
來源批判學

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#108073
12.2014
Global:
#81549
12.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#30450
09.2010
Global:
#17597
02.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Source criticism from Wikipedia articles about Nihon Shoki, Historical method, History, Biblical criticism and Hyouka. Whereas reading the article about Source criticism people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Source text, Wikipedia article, Textual criticism, Source criticism and Leopold von Ranke.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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