Grounded theory

Quality:

Grounded theory - qualitative research methodology. Article “Grounded theory” in Finnish Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.12 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Grounded theory”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 481 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #3831 in March 2013
• Global: #7760 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #7989 in October 2014
• Global: #29439 in April 2015

There are 24 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Estonian (et) Põhistatud teooria		84.8628
2	English (en) Grounded theory		70.0292
3	Ukrainian (uk) Обґрунтована теорія		69.9159
4	Chinese (zh) 紮根理論		38.972
5	Hebrew (he) תאוריה מעוגנת בשדה		34.5989
6	German (de) Grounded Theory		29.4949
7	Swedish (sv) Grundad teori		26.4148
8	Dutch (nl) Gefundeerde theorie		26.1904
9	French (fr) Théorie ancrée		25.3536
10	Russian (ru) Grounded theory		24.2409

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grounded theory		4 835 173
2	German (de) Grounded Theory		1 072 652
3	Japanese (ja) グラウンデッド・セオリー		380 791
4	Swedish (sv) Grundad teori		362 902
5	Spanish (es) Muestreo teórico		164 110
6	French (fr) Théorie ancrée		147 633
7	Italian (it) Grounded theory		139 500
8	Polish (pl) Teoria ugruntowana		117 672
9	Chinese (zh) 紮根理論		116 309
10	Czech (cs) Zakotvená teorie		87 448

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) Grounded theory		3 623
2	German (de) Grounded Theory		923
3	Japanese (ja) グラウンデッド・セオリー		426
4	Chinese (zh) 紮根理論		372
5	French (fr) Théorie ancrée		336
6	Persian (fa) نظریه داده‌بنیاد		163
7	Polish (pl) Teoria ugruntowana		155
8	Russian (ru) Grounded theory		125
9	Italian (it) Grounded theory		123
10	Czech (cs) Zakotvená teorie		114

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Grounded theory		229
2	German (de) Grounded Theory		91
3	French (fr) Théorie ancrée		33
4	Italian (it) Grounded theory		25
5	Swedish (sv) Grundad teori		21
6	Spanish (es) Muestreo teórico		17
7	Russian (ru) Grounded theory		17
8	Persian (fa) نظریه داده‌بنیاد		16
9	Japanese (ja) グラウンデッド・セオリー		16
10	Czech (cs) Zakotvená teorie		15

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	Ukrainian (uk) Обґрунтована теорія		1
2	Chinese (zh) 紮根理論		1
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية متجذرة		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Əsaslandırılmış nəzəriyyə		0
5	Czech (cs) Zakotvená teorie		0
6	German (de) Grounded Theory		0
7	English (en) Grounded theory		0
8	Spanish (es) Muestreo teórico		0
9	Estonian (et) Põhistatud teooria		0
10	Persian (fa) نظریه داده‌بنیاد		0

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

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