The Open University

The Open University - university in Milton Keynes, UK. This university is the 139^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 343^rd most popular university in Norwegian Wikipedia and the 428^th most popular website in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “The Open University” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Open University”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1122 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Open University is on the 343^rd place in local ranking of universities in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 139^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The Open University is on the 428^th place in local ranking of websites in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 310^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 36 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 5286 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #3718 in July 2009
• Global: #4940 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #45334 in December 2009
• Global: #35948 in June 2008

There are 29 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) Open University		94.6854
2	German (de) The Open University		69.1483
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		59.9241
4	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		46.2531
5	Simple English (simple) Open University		38.5699
6	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยเปิด (สหราชอาณาจักร)		30.1969
7	Ukrainian (uk) Відкритий університет (Велика Британія)		28.4623
8	Norwegian (no) The Open University		27.5107
9	Catalan (ca) Open University		27.0858
10	Italian (it) Open University		25.1348

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open University		4 895 444
2	German (de) The Open University		319 019
3	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		198 597
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		178 130
5	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		116 349
6	French (fr) Open University		87 901
7	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		70 497
8	Spanish (es) The Open University		69 775
9	Polish (pl) The Open University		56 574
10	Portuguese (pt) The Open University		30 981

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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 "The Open University" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open University		19 099
2	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		589
3	German (de) The Open University		567
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		561
5	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		542
6	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		320
7	Spanish (es) The Open University		247
8	Italian (it) Open University		193
9	Dutch (nl) The Open University		142
10	Simple English (simple) Open University		127

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open University		573
2	German (de) The Open University		108
3	French (fr) Open University		69
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		57
5	Dutch (nl) The Open University		31
6	Norwegian (no) The Open University		29
7	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		28
8	Polish (pl) The Open University		27
9	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		24
10	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		23

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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 "The Open University" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open University		3
2	German (de) The Open University		1
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		1
4	Belarusian (be) Адкрыты ўніверсітэт (Вялікабрытанія)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Open University		0
6	Czech (cs) Open University		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Malferma Universitato de Britio		0
8	Spanish (es) The Open University		0
9	Estonian (et) Avatud Ülikool		0
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه آزاد انگلستان		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 "The Open University" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Open University		2 716
2	German (de) The Open University		448
3	French (fr) Open University		409
4	Spanish (es) The Open University		199
5	Italian (it) Open University		197
6	Belarusian (be) Адкрыты ўніверсітэт (Вялікабрытанія)		141
7	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		128
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه آزاد انگلستان		120
9	Portuguese (pt) The Open University		107
10	Dutch (nl) The Open University		103

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Адкрыты ўніверсітэт (Вялікабрытанія)
ca	Catalan Open University
cs	Czech Open University
de	German The Open University
en	English Open University
eo	Esperanto Malferma Universitato de Britio
es	Spanish The Open University
et	Estonian Avatud Ülikool
fa	Persian دانشگاه آزاد انگلستان
fi	Finnish Open University
fr	French Open University
gl	Galician Open University
hi	Hindi मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय
it	Italian Open University
ja	Japanese オープン大学
ko	Korean 오픈 대학교
lt	Lithuanian Atvirasis universitetas
nl	Dutch The Open University
no	Norwegian The Open University
pl	Polish The Open University
pt	Portuguese The Open University
ru	Russian Открытый университет (Великобритания)
simple	Simple English Open University
sv	Swedish Open University
th	Thai มหาวิทยาลัยเปิด (สหราชอาณาจักร)
tr	Turkish Open University
uk	Ukrainian Відкритий університет (Велика Британія)
ur	Urdu اوپن یونیورسٹی
zh	Chinese 開放大學 (英國)

Best Rank

Norwegian: #45334 12.2009

Global: #35948 06.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #3718 07.2009

Global: #4940 12.2002

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