Adam Smith

Quality:

Adam Smith - Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790). This person is the 809^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 573^rd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Adam Smith” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4721^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2075^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 573^rd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2556^th most popular in all topics.

The 1243^rd most popular in AI.

The 809^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3345^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9531^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9086^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Adam Smith”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2075^th place) and edited by 5916 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1243^rd place).

Adam Smith is on the 573^rd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 809^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 133 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16247 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #130 in August 2005
• Global: #349 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1469 in November 2024
• Global: #1146 in October 2008

There are 55 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	Greek (el) Άνταμ Σμιθ		100
2	English (en) Adam Smith		94.6454
3	Russian (ru) Смит, Адам		93.8462
4	Basque (eu) Adam Smith		84.6505
5	Armenian (hy) Ադամ Սմիթ		83.4274
6	Georgian (ka) ადამ სმითი		83.0769
7	Chinese (zh) 亚当·斯密		80
8	Bulgarian (bg) Адам Смит		76.6601
9	German (de) Adam Smith		76.1557
10	Esperanto (eo) Adam Smith		69.5696

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Adam Smith		20 481 913
2	Spanish (es) Adam Smith		11 794 485
3	Portuguese (pt) Adam Smith		3 379 623
4	French (fr) Adam Smith		3 213 177
5	Russian (ru) Смит, Адам		2 700 635
6	German (de) Adam Smith		2 454 593
7	Japanese (ja) アダム・スミス		1 793 224
8	Italian (it) Adam Smith		1 571 651
9	Indonesian (id) Adam Smith		1 250 080
10	Turkish (tr) Adam Smith		957 010

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) Adam Smith		52 512
2	Spanish (es) Adam Smith		13 749
3	French (fr) Adam Smith		5 737
4	Japanese (ja) アダム・スミス		5 099
5	Russian (ru) Смит, Адам		5 076
6	Portuguese (pt) Adam Smith		4 635
7	German (de) Adam Smith		4 359
8	Italian (it) Adam Smith		3 517
9	Chinese (zh) 亚当·斯密		3 449
10	Turkish (tr) Adam Smith		2 139

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Adam Smith		1 693
2	German (de) Adam Smith		429
3	Spanish (es) Adam Smith		399
4	French (fr) Adam Smith		389
5	Italian (it) Adam Smith		221
6	Portuguese (pt) Adam Smith		208
7	Russian (ru) Смит, Адам		190
8	Dutch (nl) Adam Smith		125
9	Japanese (ja) アダム・スミス		111
10	Norwegian (no) Adam Smith		109

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	English (en) Adam Smith		7
2	Spanish (es) Adam Smith		2
3	Persian (fa) آدام اسمیت		2
4	Danish (da) Adam Smith		1
5	German (de) Adam Smith		1
6	French (fr) Adam Smith		1
7	Galician (gl) Adam Smith		1
8	Hebrew (he) אדם סמית		1
9	Armenian (hy) Ադամ Սմիթ		1
10	Italian (it) Adam Smith		1

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

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