Textual criticism

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Textual criticism

Quality:

Textual criticism - branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism. Article “Textual criticism” in English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 138 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.51 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Textual criticism” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Textual criticism”, its content was written by 408 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1166 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3085 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7203 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6015 in March 2004
  • Global: #6769 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #70532 in April 2010
  • Global: #83000 in July 2009

There are 41 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Textual criticism
85.6396
2Spanish (es)
Crítica textual
78.1045
3Indonesian (id)
Kritik teks
76.769
4Swedish (sv)
Textkritik
64.4039
5Turkish (tr)
Metin eleştirisi
58.6099
6Danish (da)
Tekstkritik
48.3947
7German (de)
Textkritik
44.9737
8Hungarian (hu)
Forrástan
38.1283
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Tekstualna kritika
35.5441
10Korean (ko)
본문비평
32.7955
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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 "Textual criticism" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Textual criticism
1 884 743
2German (de)
Textkritik
315 299
3Russian (ru)
Текстология
220 755
4Portuguese (pt)
Crítica textual
108 606
5Spanish (es)
Crítica textual
104 286
6French (fr)
Critique textuelle
99 641
7Japanese (ja)
本文批評
75 419
8Polish (pl)
Krytyka tekstu
63 607
9Hungarian (hu)
Forrástan
52 889
10Arabic (ar)
نقد نصي
49 160
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Textual criticism" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Textual criticism
5 380
2German (de)
Textkritik
637
3Russian (ru)
Текстология
282
4Spanish (es)
Crítica textual
255
5Persian (fa)
تصحیح متون
252
6Japanese (ja)
本文批評
252
7Indonesian (id)
Kritik teks
238
8French (fr)
Critique textuelle
200
9Portuguese (pt)
Crítica textual
141
10Chinese (zh)
文本批评
122
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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 "Textual criticism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Textual criticism
408
2German (de)
Textkritik
136
3French (fr)
Critique textuelle
62
4Hungarian (hu)
Forrástan
58
5Swedish (sv)
Textkritik
47
6Dutch (nl)
Tekstkritiek
46
7Russian (ru)
Текстология
44
8Japanese (ja)
本文批評
36
9Persian (fa)
تصحیح متون
28
10Portuguese (pt)
Crítica textual
28
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Textual criticism" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Textual criticism
3
2Azerbaijani (az)
Mətnşünaslıq
1
3Esperanto (eo)
Historio de la teksto
1
4Spanish (es)
Crítica textual
1
5Basque (eu)
Testu kritika
1
6Hungarian (hu)
Forrástan
1
7Indonesian (id)
Kritik teks
1
8Korean (ko)
본문비평
1
9Arabic (ar)
نقد نصي
0
10Belarusian (be)
Тэксталогія
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 "Textual criticism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Textual criticism
3 085
2German (de)
Textkritik
615
3Portuguese (pt)
Crítica textual
371
4Russian (ru)
Текстология
277
5French (fr)
Critique textuelle
270
6Japanese (ja)
本文批評
267
7Indonesian (id)
Kritik teks
228
8Ukrainian (uk)
Текстологія
228
9Chinese (zh)
文本批评
202
10Spanish (es)
Crítica textual
156
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نقد نصي
azAzerbaijani
Mətnşünaslıq
beBelarusian
Тэксталогія
bgBulgarian
Текстология
caCatalan
Crítica textual
csCzech
Textová kritika
daDanish
Tekstkritik
deGerman
Textkritik
elGreek
Κριτική του κειμένου
enEnglish
Textual criticism
eoEsperanto
Historio de la teksto
esSpanish
Crítica textual
etEstonian
Tekstikriitika
euBasque
Testu kritika
faPersian
تصحیح متون
fiFinnish
Tekstikritiikki
frFrench
Critique textuelle
hiHindi
पाठालोचन
huHungarian
Forrástan
hyArmenian
Տեքստաբանություն
idIndonesian
Kritik teks
jaJapanese
本文批評
kaGeorgian
ტექსტოლოგია
kkKazakh
Текстология
koKorean
본문비평
ltLithuanian
Tekstologija
nlDutch
Tekstkritiek
noNorwegian
Tekstkritikk
plPolish
Krytyka tekstu
ptPortuguese
Crítica textual
ruRussian
Текстология
shSerbo-Croatian
Tekstualna kritika
simpleSimple English
Textual criticism
skSlovak
Textová kritika
slSlovenian
Tekstna kritika
srSerbian
Filološka kritika
svSwedish
Textkritik
trTurkish
Metin eleştirisi
ukUkrainian
Текстологія
uzUzbek
Matnshunoslik
zhChinese
文本批评

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#70532
04.2010
Global:
#83000
07.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6015
03.2004
Global:
#6769
03.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Textual criticism from Wikipedia articles about Historical criticism, Philology, New International Version, English Standard Version and Novum Testamentum Gce. Whereas reading the article about Textual criticism people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Literary criticism, Philology, Textual scholarship, Cambridge Songs and Textual criticism of the New Testament.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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