Second best

Theory of the second best - branch of economics studying next-best alternatives. Article “Second best” in Italian Wikipedia has 11.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Second best”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 97 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #59140 in November 2015
• Global: #138455 in May 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #108064 in January 2019
• Global: #254976 in June 2014

There are 9 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	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		28.9694
2	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		24.2746
3	English (en) Theory of the second best		17.5655
4	Italian (it) Second best		11.3182
5	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		10.5589
6	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		8.8955
7	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		8.6031
8	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		0.2816
9	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		0.1431

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of the second best		546 141
2	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		112 850
3	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		67 259
4	Italian (it) Second best		51 407
5	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		37 604
6	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		19 981
7	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		8 526
8	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		2 904
9	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		1 571

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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 "Second best" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of the second best		1 450
2	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		148
3	Italian (it) Second best		99
4	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		99
5	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		88
6	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		84
7	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		79
8	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		12
9	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Theory of the second best		55
2	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		21
3	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		15
4	Italian (it) Second best		13
5	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		12
6	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		5
7	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		4
8	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		4
9	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		4

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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 "Second best" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		0
2	English (en) Theory of the second best		0
3	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		0
4	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		0
5	Italian (it) Second best		0
6	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		0
7	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		0
8	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		0
9	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		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 "Second best" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Theory of the second best		58
2	Spanish (es) Teoría del segundo mejor		14
3	German (de) Theorie des Zweitbesten		12
4	Japanese (ja) 次善の理論		5
5	Chinese (zh) 次優理論		5
6	Italian (it) Second best		2
7	French (fr) Optimum de second rang		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Antrojo geriausio teorija		0
9	Norwegian (no) Teorien om den nest beste løsning		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Theorie des Zweitbesten
en	English Theory of the second best
es	Spanish Teoría del segundo mejor
fr	French Optimum de second rang
it	Italian Second best
ja	Japanese 次善の理論
lt	Lithuanian Antrojo geriausio teorija
no	Norwegian Teorien om den nest beste løsning
zh	Chinese 次優理論

Best Rank

Italian: #108064 01.2019

Global: #254976 06.2014

Best Rank

Italian: #59140 11.2015

Global: #138455 05.2018

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