Stanford prison experiment

Quality:

Stanford prison experiment - controversial 1971 psychological experiment. Article "Stanford prison experiment" in English Wikipedia has 90.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 107 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4336^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 8316^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4851^st most popular in all topics.

In July 2024 the article "Stanford prison experiment" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Stanford prison experiment", its content was written by 874 registered users of English Wikipedia (8316^th place) and edited by 2312 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 411 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1456 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #548 in May 2004
• Global: #2106 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #446 in July 2017
• Global: #1024 in July 2017

There are 45 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Stanford prison experiment		90.6692
2	Croatian (hr) Stanfordski zatvorski eksperiment		87.4823
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thí nghiệm nhà tù Stanford		51.0455
4	German (de) Stanford-Prison-Experiment		46.8337
5	Simple English (simple) Stanford prison experiment		45.8344
6	Estonian (et) Stanfordi vanglaeksperiment		36.6368
7	Swedish (sv) Stanfordexperimentet		35.1972
8	Indonesian (id) Percobaan penjara Stanford		34.3642
9	Dutch (nl) Stanford-gevangenisexperiment		34.1035
10	Chinese (zh) 斯坦福监狱实验		33.8958

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stanford prison experiment		20 902 981
2	Japanese (ja) スタンフォード監獄実験		2 736 241
3	Spanish (es) Experimento de la cárcel de Stanford		2 409 623
4	Russian (ru) Стэнфордский тюремный эксперимент		2 286 719
5	German (de) Stanford-Prison-Experiment		2 220 107
6	Polish (pl) Stanfordzki eksperyment więzienny		1 307 586
7	Chinese (zh) 斯坦福监狱实验		1 077 553
8	French (fr) Expérience de Stanford		1 074 084
9	Italian (it) Esperimento carcerario di Stanford		1 011 484
10	Dutch (nl) Stanford-gevangenisexperiment		589 019

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) Stanford prison experiment		55 887
2	Japanese (ja) スタンフォード監獄実験		11 835
3	Russian (ru) Стэнфордский тюремный эксперимент		8 559
4	German (de) Stanford-Prison-Experiment		6 921
5	Spanish (es) Experimento de la cárcel de Stanford		5 113
6	Italian (it) Esperimento carcerario di Stanford		3 870
7	Polish (pl) Stanfordzki eksperyment więzienny		3 835
8	French (fr) Expérience de Stanford		2 895
9	Chinese (zh) 斯坦福监狱实验		2 426
10	Persian (fa) آزمایش زندان استنفورد		1 749

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stanford prison experiment		874
2	German (de) Stanford-Prison-Experiment		218
3	French (fr) Expérience de Stanford		130
4	Russian (ru) Стэнфордский тюремный эксперимент		96
5	Italian (it) Esperimento carcerario di Stanford		78
6	Japanese (ja) スタンフォード監獄実験		75
7	Hebrew (he) ניסוי הכלא של סטנפורד		71
8	Spanish (es) Experimento de la cárcel de Stanford		69
9	Dutch (nl) Stanford-gevangenisexperiment		57
10	Polish (pl) Stanfordzki eksperyment więzienny		56

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) Stanford prison experiment		3
2	Italian (it) Esperimento carcerario di Stanford		2
3	Armenian (hy) Սթենֆորդի բանտային գիտափորձ		1
4	Simple English (simple) Stanford prison experiment		1
5	Arabic (ar) تجربة سجن ستانفورد		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Stenford həbsxana eksperimenti		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Станфордски затворнически експеримент		0
8	Catalan (ca) Experiment de la presó de Stanford		0
9	Czech (cs) Stanfordský vězeňský experiment		0
10	Danish (da) Stanford-fængselseksperimentet		0

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

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