Theory of forms

Quality:

Theory of forms - philosophical theory attributed to Plato. Article "Theory of forms" in English Wikipedia has 51.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 41 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Theory of forms", its content was written by 474 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1173 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 936 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3411 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1509 in October 2001
• Global: #1668 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8124 in February 2015
• Global: #14866 in October 2020

There are 27 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	German (de) Ideenlehre		86.7511
2	Indonesian (id) Teori bentuk		58.7552
3	English (en) Theory of forms		51.1825
4	Finnish (fi) Ideaoppi		49.7987
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das ideias		38.7141
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de las formas		38.0083
7	Hindi (hi) प्रत्यय सिद्धांत		33.3869
8	Chinese (zh) 觀念論		29.3653
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Teorija ideja		26.4388
10	Japanese (ja) イデア論		26.0927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of forms		8 071 950
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de las formas		1 490 965
3	Japanese (ja) イデア論		1 139 547
4	German (de) Ideenlehre		840 445
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das ideias		765 694
6	French (fr) Théorie des formes		509 775
7	Arabic (ar) نظرية المثل		292 016
8	Turkish (tr) İdealar teorisi		291 264
9	Dutch (nl) Ideeënleer		258 220
10	Korean (ko) 이데아론		242 777

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) Theory of forms		26 706
2	Japanese (ja) イデア論		3 287
3	Korean (ko) 이데아론		2 339
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de las formas		2 337
5	German (de) Ideenlehre		1 736
6	French (fr) Théorie des formes		1 365
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das ideias		1 349
8	Chinese (zh) 觀念論		1 327
9	Turkish (tr) İdealar teorisi		696
10	Arabic (ar) نظرية المثل		561

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Theory of forms		474
2	German (de) Ideenlehre		120
3	French (fr) Théorie des formes		92
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de las formas		74
5	Dutch (nl) Ideeënleer		61
6	Japanese (ja) イデア論		50
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das ideias		45
8	Italian (it) Eidos		41
9	Turkish (tr) İdealar teorisi		30
10	Swedish (sv) Idévärlden		29

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	Arabic (ar) نظرية المثل		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Теория за формите		0
3	German (de) Ideenlehre		0
4	Greek (el) Θεωρία των μορφών		0
5	English (en) Theory of forms		0
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de las formas		0
7	Basque (eu) Ideien teoria		0
8	Persian (fa) نظریه اشکال		0
9	Finnish (fi) Ideaoppi		0
10	French (fr) Théorie des formes		0

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

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