Popular science

Quality:

Popular science - interpretation of science intended for a general audience. Article “Popular science” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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 “Popular science”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1435 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8564 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1300 in April 2019
• Global: #8709 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5533 in August 2010
• Global: #5179 in March 2015

There are 38 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	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		51.7524
2	French (fr) Vulgarisation		44.598
3	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		44.2806
4	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		42.1868
5	Ukrainian (uk) Популяризація науки		41.004
6	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		34.6501
7	Turkish (tr) Popüler bilim		34.1007
8	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		33.7955
9	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		31.9893
10	English (en) Popular science		31.3809

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		6 275 112
2	English (en) Popular science		1 384 192
3	French (fr) Vulgarisation		755 269
4	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		410 455
5	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		399 431
6	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		304 893
7	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		231 223
8	Swedish (sv) Populärvetenskap		86 283
9	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		67 072
10	Finnish (fi) Tieteen yleistajuistaminen		57 034

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) Popular science		4 838
2	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		2 413
3	French (fr) Vulgarisation		1 452
4	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		1 101
5	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		769
6	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		616
7	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		424
8	Simple English (simple) Popular science		288
9	Polish (pl) Popularyzacja nauki		195
10	Japanese (ja) 通俗科学		177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Popular science		273
2	French (fr) Vulgarisation		218
3	Spanish (es) Divulgación científica		195
4	Russian (ru) Популяризация науки		116
5	Italian (it) Divulgazione scientifica		83
6	Portuguese (pt) Divulgação científica		77
7	Chinese (zh) 大众科学		53
8	Hebrew (he) מדע פופולרי		48
9	Dutch (nl) Populaire wetenschap		48
10	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		34

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) Popular science		3
2	Hebrew (he) מדע פופולרי		1
3	Arabic (ar) علم شعبي		0
4	Belarusian (be) Папулярызацыя навукі		0
5	Catalan (ca) Divulgació científica		0
6	Czech (cs) Popularizace vědy		0
7	Danish (da) Populærvidenskab		0
8	German (de) Wissenschaftspopularisierung		0
9	Greek (el) Εκλαΐκευση της επιστήμης		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Scienca popularigo		0

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

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