Kōan

Kōan - story, dialogue, question, or statement used in Zen practice. Article “Kōan” in Italian Wikipedia has 19.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 11 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Kōan” was edited by 8 authors in Italian Wikipedia (877^th place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kōan”, its content was written by 78 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 66 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 6500 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #22 in January 2003
• Global: #2085 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #38404 in April 2009
• Global: #30533 in December 2008

There are 32 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	English (en) Koan		91.4286
2	Hungarian (hu) Kóan		59.5721
3	Dutch (nl) Koan (zen)		46.9143
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Koan		44.9826
5	Simple English (simple) Kōan		34.9396
6	Swedish (sv) Koan		34.9175
7	French (fr) Kōan (bouddhisme)		27.5404
8	Serbian (sr) Коан		27.4004
9	Polish (pl) Koan		26.7892
10	Japanese (ja) 公案		23.3965

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kōan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Koan		3 896 135
2	Russian (ru) Коан		507 307
3	Japanese (ja) 公案		492 786
4	Spanish (es) Kōan		480 869
5	German (de) Kōan		457 239
6	French (fr) Kōan (bouddhisme)		257 376
7	Italian (it) Kōan		236 890
8	Polish (pl) Koan		195 266
9	Portuguese (pt) Koan		117 902
10	Dutch (nl) Koan (zen)		113 921

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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 "Kōan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Koan		13 771
2	Russian (ru) Коан		1 412
3	Japanese (ja) 公案		1 369
4	Spanish (es) Kōan		1 111
5	German (de) Kōan		1 065
6	French (fr) Kōan (bouddhisme)		754
7	Italian (it) Kōan		740
8	Korean (ko) 간화선		657
9	Chinese (zh) 公案		604
10	Czech (cs) Kóan		352

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Koan		354
2	German (de) Kōan		103
3	French (fr) Kōan (bouddhisme)		84
4	Italian (it) Kōan		78
5	Dutch (nl) Koan (zen)		57
6	Russian (ru) Коан		53
7	Spanish (es) Kōan		40
8	Polish (pl) Koan		39
9	Japanese (ja) 公案		32
10	Vietnamese (vi) Công án		31

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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 "Kōan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Kōan		8
2	English (en) Koan		1
3	Arabic (ar) كوآن		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Коан		0
5	Catalan (ca) Koan		0
6	Czech (cs) Kóan		0
7	German (de) Kōan		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Koano		0
9	Spanish (es) Kōan		0
10	Estonian (et) Kōan		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 "Kōan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Koan		2 462
2	Korean (ko) 간화선		942
3	Hungarian (hu) Kóan		622
4	Chinese (zh) 公案		515
5	French (fr) Kōan (bouddhisme)		474
6	Arabic (ar) كوآن		319
7	Polish (pl) Koan		274
8	Vietnamese (vi) Công án		182
9	Japanese (ja) 公案		129
10	Russian (ru) Коан		113

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كوآن
bg	Bulgarian Коан
ca	Catalan Koan
cs	Czech Kóan
de	German Kōan
en	English Koan
eo	Esperanto Koano
es	Spanish Kōan
et	Estonian Kōan
eu	Basque Kōan
fi	Finnish Kōan
fr	French Kōan (bouddhisme)
he	Hebrew קואן
hu	Hungarian Kóan
it	Italian Kōan
ja	Japanese 公案
ko	Korean 간화선
nl	Dutch Koan (zen)
no	Norwegian Kōan
pl	Polish Koan
pt	Portuguese Koan
ru	Russian Коан
sh	Serbo-Croatian Koan
simple	Simple English Kōan
sk	Slovak Kóan
sl	Slovenian Koan
sr	Serbian Коан
sv	Swedish Koan
tr	Turkish Koan
uk	Ukrainian Коан
vi	Vietnamese Công án
zh	Chinese 公案

Best Rank

Italian: #38404 04.2009

Global: #30533 12.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #22 01.2003

Global: #2085 05.2003

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