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, 2025). 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 55 registered users of Polish Wikipedia and edited by 1257 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 527 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #1558 in June 2005
• Global: #1126 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #7715 in October 2011
• Global: #16623 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, 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	Estonian (et) Sokali afäär		62.983
2	English (en) Sokal affair		57.2928
3	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		43.2558
4	Basque (eu) Sokal afera		33.8983
5	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		33.8472
6	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		33.4815
7	Korean (ko) 소칼 사건		32.702
8	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		28.7725
9	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		28.6743
10	Italian (it) Affare Sokal		27.6092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sokal affair		4 132 026
2	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		1 016 283
3	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		344 747
4	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		330 271
5	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		329 295
6	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		203 934
7	Russian (ru) Мистификация Сокала		103 137
8	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		97 532
9	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		82 948
10	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		77 458

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		10 266
2	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		5 676
3	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		1 161
4	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		1 070
5	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		717
6	Russian (ru) Мистификация Сокала		418
7	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		362
8	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		317
9	Italian (it) Affare Sokal		303
10	Portuguese (pt) Caso Sokal		262

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		476
2	French (fr) Affaire Sokal		115
3	Japanese (ja) ソーカル事件		105
4	German (de) Sokal-Affäre		100
5	Spanish (es) Escándalo Sokal		61
6	Hebrew (he) פרשת סוקל		57
7	Polish (pl) Sprawa Sokala		55
8	Italian (it) Affare Sokal		41
9	Chinese (zh) 索卡尔事件		40
10	Dutch (nl) Sokal-affaire		36

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

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

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