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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Quality:

Why most published research findings are false - 2005 essay written by John Ioannidis. Article “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, its content was written by 35 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 43 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #53873 in July 2021
  • Global: #180873 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #186068 in August 2021
  • Global: #326638 in August 2021

There are 2 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

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1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
30.7427
2French (fr)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
22.8259
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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 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" in all the time
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1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
228 555
2French (fr)
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1 772
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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 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
2 769
2French (fr)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
44
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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 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
35
2French (fr)
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8
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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 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
0
2French (fr)
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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 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
10
2French (fr)
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#186068
08.2021
Global:
#326638
08.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#53873
07.2021
Global:
#180873
02.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Why most published research findings are false from Wikipedia articles about Replication crisis, John Ioannidis, Survivorship bias, Bayes theorem and False positives and false negatives. Whereas reading the article about Why most published research findings are false people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Metascience, John Ioannidis, Replication crisis, PLOS MEDICINE and Preregistration.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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