The Bell Curve

Quality:

The Bell Curve - 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. This book is the 806^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 485^th most popular book in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “The Bell Curve” in Dutch Wikipedia has 32 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

The 485^th most popular in books in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 806^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Bell Curve”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 866 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Bell Curve is on the 485^th place in local ranking of books in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 806^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #1765 in December 2019
• Global: #253 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #1048 in May 2010
• Global: #12868 in March 2017

There are 16 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	English (en) The Bell Curve		61.2809
2	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		59.9227
3	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		32.0211
4	German (de) The Bell Curve		31.8489
5	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		30.8239
6	Ukrainian (uk) The Bell Curve		20.4654
7	Persian (fa) منحنی زنگوله‌ای		20.2321
8	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		19.9214
9	French (fr) The Bell Curve		16.4459
10	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		15.1104

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bell Curve		5 945 403
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		236 999
3	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		110 961
4	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		107 922
5	French (fr) The Bell Curve		99 262
6	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		63 541
7	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		55 846
8	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		55 282
9	Chinese (zh) 鐘形曲線：美國社會中的智力與階層結構		30 873
10	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		24 623

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) The Bell Curve		10 653
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		762
3	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		282
4	French (fr) The Bell Curve		279
5	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		213
6	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		183
7	Chinese (zh) 鐘形曲線：美國社會中的智力與階層結構		161
8	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		153
9	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		138
10	Persian (fa) منحنی زنگوله‌ای		93

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Bell Curve		534
2	German (de) The Bell Curve		118
3	French (fr) The Bell Curve		33
4	Swedish (sv) The Bell Curve		32
5	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		29
6	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		21
7	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		20
8	Russian (ru) The Bell Curve		18
9	Polish (pl) The Bell Curve		14
10	Norwegian (no) The Bell Curve		13

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	Spanish (es) The Bell Curve		1
2	French (fr) The Bell Curve		1
3	Italian (it) The Bell Curve		1
4	Danish (da) The Bell Curve		0
5	German (de) The Bell Curve		0
6	English (en) The Bell Curve		0
7	Persian (fa) منحنی زنگوله‌ای		0
8	Finnish (fi) The Bell Curve		0
9	Korean (ko) 벨 커브		0
10	Dutch (nl) The Bell Curve		0

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

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