John Backus

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John Backus

Quality:

John Backus - American computer scientist (1924–2007). Article “John Backus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “John Backus”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 974 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4362 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #9801 in September 2022
  • Global: #3302 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #52038 in February 2021
  • Global: #143405 in December 2013

There are 39 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hungarian (hu)
John Backus
44.8844
2Dutch (nl)
John Backus
35.0465
3English (en)
John Backus
33.8172
4Spanish (es)
John Backus
32.3027
5Swedish (sv)
John Backus
29.771
6Basque (eu)
John Backus
29.7017
7Croatian (hr)
John Backus
28.2419
8Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
28.0427
9Finnish (fi)
John Backus
27.4163
10Azerbaijani (az)
Con Bekus
26.7581
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "John Backus" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
John Backus
871 482
2Spanish (es)
John Backus
102 120
3Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
100 346
4German (de)
John W. Backus
90 628
5Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
74 909
6French (fr)
John Backus
60 928
7Portuguese (pt)
John Backus
41 283
8Polish (pl)
John Backus
39 809
9Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
36 680
10Italian (it)
John Backus
33 151
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "John Backus" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
John Backus
2 819
2Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
245
3Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
231
4German (de)
John W. Backus
227
5Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
211
6French (fr)
John Backus
175
7Spanish (es)
John Backus
174
8Italian (it)
John Backus
77
9Dutch (nl)
John Backus
62
10Polish (pl)
John Backus
57
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "John Backus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
John Backus
203
2German (de)
John W. Backus
85
3French (fr)
John Backus
82
4Italian (it)
John Backus
60
5Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
55
6Dutch (nl)
John Backus
43
7Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
42
8Polish (pl)
John Backus
32
9Danish (da)
John Backus
29
10Turkish (tr)
John Backus
29
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "John Backus" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
جون باكوس
1
2Catalan (ca)
John W. Backus
1
3English (en)
John Backus
1
4Basque (eu)
John Backus
1
5Azerbaijani (az)
Con Bekus
0
6Belarusian (be)
Джон Бэкус
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Джон Бекъс
0
8Czech (cs)
John Backus
0
9Danish (da)
John Backus
0
10German (de)
John W. Backus
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "John Backus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
John Backus
719
2Portuguese (pt)
John Backus
549
3Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
438
4Arabic (ar)
جون باكوس
437
5Persian (fa)
جان باکوس
414
6French (fr)
John Backus
123
7German (de)
John W. Backus
122
8Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
118
9Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
114
10Catalan (ca)
John W. Backus
98
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
جون باكوس
azAzerbaijani
Con Bekus
beBelarusian
Джон Бэкус
bgBulgarian
Джон Бекъс
caCatalan
John W. Backus
csCzech
John Backus
daDanish
John Backus
deGerman
John W. Backus
enEnglish
John Backus
eoEsperanto
John Backus
esSpanish
John Backus
etEstonian
John Backus
euBasque
John Backus
faPersian
جان باکوس
fiFinnish
John Backus
frFrench
John Backus
glGalician
John Backus
hiHindi
जॉन बॅकस
hrCroatian
John Backus
huHungarian
John Backus
itItalian
John Backus
jaJapanese
ジョン・バッカス
koKorean
존 배커스
nlDutch
John Backus
noNorwegian
John Backus
plPolish
John Backus
ptPortuguese
John Backus
roRomanian
John Backus
ruRussian
Бэкус, Джон
shSerbo-Croatian
John Backus
simpleSimple English
John Backus
skSlovak
John Backus
srSerbian
Џон Бакус
svSwedish
John Backus
thThai
จอห์น แบกคัส
trTurkish
John Backus
ukUkrainian
Джон Бекус
viVietnamese
John Backus
zhChinese
約翰·巴科斯

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#52038
02.2021
Global:
#143405
12.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#9801
09.2022
Global:
#3302
03.2007

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on John Backus from Wikipedia articles about Fortran, Backus–Naur form, Turing Award, Speedcoding and History of programming languages. Whereas reading the article about John Backus people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Backus–Naur form, Fortran, Speedcoding, Function-level programming and ALGOL.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: John Backus

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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