B. F. Skinner

Quality:

B. F. Skinner - American behaviorist (1904–1990). This person is the 3798^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “B. F. Skinner” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9596^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3798^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “B. F. Skinner”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

B. F. Skinner is on the 3798^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 127 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7500 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1272 in September 2015
• Global: #1310 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1533 in August 2013
• Global: #2515 in May 2015

There are 45 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) B. F. Skinner		81.7423
2	Indonesian (id) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		66.4648
3	Serbian (sr) Барус Фредерик Скинер		63.1367
4	Estonian (et) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		51.7253
5	Hindi (hi) बी॰एफ॰ स्किनर		48.5435
6	Dutch (nl) Burrhus Skinner		48.1082
7	Hungarian (hu) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		47.6221
8	Persian (fa) بی.اف. اسکینر		45.8132
9	Spanish (es) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		42.0613
10	Catalan (ca) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		40.7705

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) B. F. Skinner		12 354 446
2	Spanish (es) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		4 208 562
3	Portuguese (pt) B. F. Skinner		1 038 663
4	German (de) B. F. Skinner		857 038
5	Russian (ru) Скиннер, Беррес Фредерик		539 610
6	French (fr) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		535 320
7	Italian (it) Burrhus Skinner		424 494
8	Japanese (ja) バラス・スキナー		404 780
9	Indonesian (id) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		254 596
10	Chinese (zh) 伯尔赫斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳		252 987

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) B. F. Skinner		19 457
2	Spanish (es) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		3 362
3	Portuguese (pt) B. F. Skinner		1 711
4	German (de) B. F. Skinner		1 593
5	Russian (ru) Скиннер, Беррес Фредерик		1 108
6	French (fr) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		980
7	Italian (it) Burrhus Skinner		962
8	Japanese (ja) バラス・スキナー		946
9	Chinese (zh) 伯尔赫斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳		682
10	Persian (fa) بی.اف. اسکینر		469

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) B. F. Skinner		919
2	German (de) B. F. Skinner		160
3	French (fr) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		116
4	Spanish (es) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		114
5	Italian (it) Burrhus Skinner		88
6	Russian (ru) Скиннер, Беррес Фредерик		81
7	Dutch (nl) Burrhus Skinner		76
8	Portuguese (pt) B. F. Skinner		63
9	Hebrew (he) פרדריק סקינר		60
10	Japanese (ja) バラス・スキナー		59

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) B. F. Skinner		3
2	Serbian (sr) Барус Фредерик Скинер		3
3	Catalan (ca) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		2
4	German (de) B. F. Skinner		2
5	Georgian (ka) ბერეს ფრედერიკ სკინერი		1
6	Arabic (ar) بورهوس فريدريك سكينر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Burres Frederik Skinner		0
8	Belarusian (be) Берэс Фрэдэрык Скінер		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Бъръс Фредерик Скинър		0
10	Czech (cs) Burrhus Frederic Skinner		0

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

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