Encyclopædia Britannica

Quality:

Encyclopædia Britannica - general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia, first published in Scotland in 1768. This book is the 207^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 25^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Encyclopædia Britannica" in Simple English Wikipedia has 74.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 39 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4061^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1336^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 25^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3850^th most popular in AI.

The 207^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4865^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Encyclopædia Britannica", its content was written by 67 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1336^th place) and edited by 3897 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3850^th place).

Encyclopædia Britannica is on the 25^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 207^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 359 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6732^nd place) and cited 669894 times in all languages (123^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #54 in April 2021
• Global: #98 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #401 in April 2013
• Global: #2372 in March 2012

There are 54 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Encyclopædia Britannica		95.5435
2	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה בריטניקה		92.2807
3	Portuguese (pt) Encyclopædia Britannica		89.4054
4	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia Británica		89.1502
5	French (fr) Encyclopædia Britannica		84.7989
6	Uzbek (uz) Encyclopædia Britannica		81.058
7	Simple English (simple) Encyclopædia Britannica		74.8947
8	Japanese (ja) ブリタニカ百科事典		73.6083
9	Chinese (zh) 大英百科全书		61.8906
10	Hungarian (hu) Encyclopædia Britannica		46.9376

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Encyclopædia Britannica		9 101 970
2	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia Británica		963 139
3	Russian (ru) Британская энциклопедия		697 863
4	Japanese (ja) ブリタニカ百科事典		622 479
5	German (de) Encyclopædia Britannica		512 725
6	Italian (it) Enciclopedia Britannica		508 499
7	Chinese (zh) 大英百科全书		444 976
8	Arabic (ar) الموسوعة البريطانية		440 184
9	Portuguese (pt) Encyclopædia Britannica		376 810
10	French (fr) Encyclopædia Britannica		295 772

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) Encyclopædia Britannica		28 893
2	Japanese (ja) ブリタニカ百科事典		3 766
3	Russian (ru) Британская энциклопедия		3 682
4	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia Británica		2 986
5	Arabic (ar) الموسوعة البريطانية		2 882
6	Italian (it) Enciclopedia Britannica		2 854
7	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה בריטניקה		2 082
8	Chinese (zh) 大英百科全书		2 033
9	German (de) Encyclopædia Britannica		1 637
10	Polish (pl) Encyklopedia Britannica		1 309

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Encyclopædia Britannica		1 361
2	German (de) Encyclopædia Britannica		195
3	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia Británica		163
4	French (fr) Encyclopædia Britannica		163
5	Chinese (zh) 大英百科全书		124
6	Russian (ru) Британская энциклопедия		123
7	Italian (it) Enciclopedia Britannica		114
8	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה בריטניקה		111
9	Dutch (nl) Encyclopædia Britannica		101
10	Japanese (ja) ブリタニカ百科事典		91

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) Encyclopædia Britannica		9
2	Dutch (nl) Encyclopædia Britannica		4
3	Russian (ru) Британская энциклопедия		2
4	Arabic (ar) الموسوعة البريطانية		1
5	Estonian (et) Encyclopædia Britannica		1
6	French (fr) Encyclopædia Britannica		1
7	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה בריטניקה		1
8	Italian (it) Enciclopedia Britannica		1
9	Japanese (ja) ブリタニカ百科事典		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Encyclopædia Britannica		1

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

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