Lateral thinking

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Lateral thinking

Quality:

Lateral thinking - manner of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious or attainable using only traditional step-by-step logic. Article “Lateral thinking” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Lateral thinking”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 749 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 395 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #330 in October 2011
  • Global: #13399 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #9925 in October 2008
  • Global: #9326 in August 2011

There are 25 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
水平思考
42.4674
2Estonian (et)
Külgmõtlemine
41.3848
3English (en)
Lateral thinking
39.3724
4German (de)
Laterales Denken
29.0619
5French (fr)
Pensée latérale
26.988
6Czech (cs)
Laterální myšlení
25.5794
7Catalan (ca)
Pensament lateral
24.956
8Slovenian (sl)
Lateralno razmišljanje
21.7644
9Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
20.3745
10Polish (pl)
Myślenie lateralne
18.278
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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 "Lateral thinking" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Lateral thinking
3 615 759
2Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
2 434 808
3German (de)
Laterales Denken
831 746
4Italian (it)
Pensiero laterale
666 747
5Japanese (ja)
水平思考
435 189
6Polish (pl)
Myślenie lateralne
220 026
7French (fr)
Pensée latérale
149 319
8Dutch (nl)
Lateraal denken
135 515
9Russian (ru)
Латеральное мышление
117 755
10Swedish (sv)
Lateralt tänkande
104 143
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Lateral thinking" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Lateral thinking
7 786
2Italian (it)
Pensiero laterale
2 281
3Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
1 206
4Japanese (ja)
水平思考
1 195
5German (de)
Laterales Denken
896
6Russian (ru)
Латеральное мышление
697
7Chinese (zh)
水平思考
463
8French (fr)
Pensée latérale
389
9Polish (pl)
Myślenie lateralne
285
10Czech (cs)
Laterální myšlení
210
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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 "Lateral thinking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Lateral thinking
259
2German (de)
Laterales Denken
89
3Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
65
4French (fr)
Pensée latérale
57
5Italian (it)
Pensiero laterale
54
6Dutch (nl)
Lateraal denken
24
7Polish (pl)
Myślenie lateralne
20
8Chinese (zh)
水平思考
17
9Persian (fa)
تفکر جانبی
16
10Catalan (ca)
Pensament lateral
15
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Lateral thinking" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تفكير جانبي
3
2English (en)
Lateral thinking
2
3German (de)
Laterales Denken
1
4French (fr)
Pensée latérale
1
5Catalan (ca)
Pensament lateral
0
6Czech (cs)
Laterální myšlení
0
7Danish (da)
Lateral tænkning
0
8Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
0
9Estonian (et)
Külgmõtlemine
0
10Persian (fa)
تفکر جانبی
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 "Lateral thinking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Lateral thinking
109
2German (de)
Laterales Denken
42
3Spanish (es)
Pensamiento lateral
38
4Italian (it)
Pensiero laterale
33
5Chinese (zh)
水平思考
22
6French (fr)
Pensée latérale
20
7Japanese (ja)
水平思考
15
8Ukrainian (uk)
Латеральне мислення
12
9Catalan (ca)
Pensament lateral
11
10Czech (cs)
Laterální myšlení
11
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تفكير جانبي
caCatalan
Pensament lateral
csCzech
Laterální myšlení
daDanish
Lateral tænkning
deGerman
Laterales Denken
enEnglish
Lateral thinking
esSpanish
Pensamiento lateral
etEstonian
Külgmõtlemine
faPersian
تفکر جانبی
frFrench
Pensée latérale
itItalian
Pensiero laterale
jaJapanese
水平思考
msMalay
Pemikiran lateral
nlDutch
Lateraal denken
noNorwegian
Lateral tenking
plPolish
Myślenie lateralne
ptPortuguese
Pensamento lateral
ruRussian
Латеральное мышление
simpleSimple English
Lateral thinking
skSlovak
Laterálne myslenie
slSlovenian
Lateralno razmišljanje
svSwedish
Lateralt tänkande
trTurkish
Yanal düşünme
ukUkrainian
Латеральне мислення
zhChinese
水平思考

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#9925
10.2008
Global:
#9326
08.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#330
10.2011
Global:
#13399
02.2004

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Lateral thinking from Wikipedia articles about Edward de Bono, Oblique Strategies, Tom Scott, Thinking outside the box and Six Thinking Hats. Whereas reading the article about Lateral thinking people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Edward de Bono, Gordian knot, Vertical thinking, Six Thinking Hats and Nine dots puzzle.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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