Thing-in-itself

Thing-in-itself - in Kantian philosophy, an object as it is, independent of observation, which one cannot know directly. Article "Thing-in-itself" in English Wikipedia has 30.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 10 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 "Thing-in-itself", its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 117 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1031 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25611 in November 2017
• Global: #32940 in January 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #180821 in November 2018
• Global: #98496 in December 2008

There are 25 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) Ding an sich		47.9693
2	Hebrew (he) הדבר כשלעצמו		44.6217
3	Spanish (es) Cosa en sí		30.8156
4	English (en) Thing-in-itself		30.6109
5	Catalan (ca) Cosa en si		29.3628
6	Chinese (zh) 物自体 (康德)		26.1051
7	Ukrainian (uk) Річ у собі		24.8074
8	Arabic (ar) جوهر الشيء (فلسفة)		22.1755
9	Norwegian (no) Ding an sich		21.0728
10	Dutch (nl) Ding an sich		19.8836

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Thing-in-itself" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Вещь в себе		1 039 434
2	English (en) Thing-in-itself		648 164
3	German (de) Ding an sich		392 971
4	Polish (pl) Rzecz sama w sobie		190 436
5	French (fr) Chose en soi		185 405
6	Japanese (ja) 物自体		153 649
7	Dutch (nl) Ding an sich		121 873
8	Indonesian (id) An sich		75 744
9	Chinese (zh) 物自体 (康德)		69 282
10	Portuguese (pt) Coisa em si		68 879

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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 "Thing-in-itself" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thing-in-itself		3 784
2	Russian (ru) Вещь в себе		2 600
3	German (de) Ding an sich		1 019
4	Japanese (ja) 物自体		871
5	Chinese (zh) 物自体 (康德)		780
6	French (fr) Chose en soi		434
7	Spanish (es) Cosa en sí		290
8	Polish (pl) Rzecz sama w sobie		266
9	Dutch (nl) Ding an sich		236
10	Korean (ko) 물자체		162

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

Language versions of the article "Thing-in-itself" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Ding an sich		100
2	English (en) Thing-in-itself		62
3	Russian (ru) Вещь в себе		55
4	Dutch (nl) Ding an sich		48
5	French (fr) Chose en soi		45
6	Japanese (ja) 物自体		23
7	Finnish (fi) An sich		20
8	Polish (pl) Rzecz sama w sobie		18
9	Portuguese (pt) Coisa em si		18
10	Danish (da) Tingen i sig selv		16

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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 "Thing-in-itself" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) به ذات خود		1
2	Arabic (ar) جوهر الشيء (فلسفة)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Özündə şey		0
4	Catalan (ca) Cosa en si		0
5	Danish (da) Tingen i sig selv		0
6	German (de) Ding an sich		0
7	English (en) Thing-in-itself		0
8	Spanish (es) Cosa en sí		0
9	Estonian (et) Asi iseeneses		0
10	Finnish (fi) An sich		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 "Thing-in-itself" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Polish (pl) Rzecz sama w sobie		185
2	Russian (ru) Вещь в себе		134
3	German (de) Ding an sich		118
4	English (en) Thing-in-itself		117
5	French (fr) Chose en soi		92
6	Japanese (ja) 物自体		56
7	Hebrew (he) הדבר כשלעצמו		50
8	Finnish (fi) An sich		36
9	Dutch (nl) Ding an sich		35
10	Korean (ko) 물자체		31

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جوهر الشيء (فلسفة)
az	Azerbaijani Özündə şey
ca	Catalan Cosa en si
da	Danish Tingen i sig selv
de	German Ding an sich
en	English Thing-in-itself
es	Spanish Cosa en sí
et	Estonian Asi iseeneses
fa	Persian به ذات خود
fi	Finnish An sich
fr	French Chose en soi
he	Hebrew הדבר כשלעצמו
hy	Armenian Ինքնին իր (տերմին)
id	Indonesian An sich
ja	Japanese 物自体
ko	Korean 물자체
nl	Dutch Ding an sich
no	Norwegian Ding an sich
pl	Polish Rzecz sama w sobie
pt	Portuguese Coisa em si
ru	Russian Вещь в себе
sk	Slovak An sich
uk	Ukrainian Річ у собі
vi	Vietnamese Vật tự thể
zh	Chinese 物自体 (康德)

Best Rank

English: #180821 11.2018

Global: #98496 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #25611 11.2017

Global: #32940 01.2008

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