Sprawa Sokala

Quality:

Sokal affair - 1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal. Article “Sprawa Sokala” in Polish Wikipedia has 14.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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 “Sprawa Sokala”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Polish Wikipedia and edited by 1293 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 513 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #1553 in June 2005
• Global: #1128 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #7750 in October 2011
• Global: #16650 in May 2017

There are 26 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) Sokali afäär		60.9398
2	English (en) Sokal affair		56.2111
3	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		43.0183
4	Basque (eu) Sokal afera		33.3938
5	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		33.3733
6	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		33.016
7	Korean (ko) 소칼 사건		32.7493
8	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		28.6065
9	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		28.16
10	Italian (it) Affare Sokal		27.2687

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sokal affair		4 286 823
2	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		1 065 235
3	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		358 917
4	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		343 229
5	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		342 364
6	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		208 871
7	Russian (ru) Мистификация Сокала		108 887
8	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		102 852
9	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		90 537
10	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		80 033

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) Sokal affair		9 241
2	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		3 800
3	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		1 110
4	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		745
5	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		712
6	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		483
7	Russian (ru) Мистификация Сокала		378
8	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		344
9	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		341
10	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		259

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sokal affair		484
2	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		118
3	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		110
4	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		101
5	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		64
6	Hebrew (he) פרשת סוקל		58
7	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		56
8	Italian (it) Affare Sokal		41
9	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		41
10	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		38

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	Swedish (sv) Sokalaffären		1
2	Arabic (ar) قضية سوكال		0
3	Czech (cs) Sokalova aféra		0
4	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		0
5	English (en) Sokal affair		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Afero Sokal		0
7	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		0
8	Estonian (et) Sokali afäär		0
9	Basque (eu) Sokal afera		0
10	Persian (fa) ماجرای سوکال		0

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

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