Scientific method

Quality:

Scientific method - mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences; more specifically, techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses. Article “Scientific method” in Simple English Wikipedia has 55.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 12 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 2350^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1021^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1110^th most popular in all topics.

The 4431^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7823^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Scientific method”, its content was written by 80 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1021^st place) and edited by 3745 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4431^st place).

The article is cited 137 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #47 in September 2009
• Global: #11 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #80 in January 2008
• Global: #202 in September 2009

There are 51 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	English (en) Scientific method		94.4815
2	Uzbek (uz) Ilmiy metod		90.3437
3	Korean (ko) 과학적 방법		88.6746
4	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		78.8655
5	Hebrew (he) השיטה המדעית		70.4154
6	Spanish (es) Método científico		68.2759
7	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		65.2236
8	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		62.1518
9	Simple English (simple) Scientific method		55.4146
10	Catalan (ca) Mètode científic		54.2575

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Método científico		40 734 681
2	English (en) Scientific method		25 923 590
3	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		5 124 465
4	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		2 619 455
5	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		1 997 180
6	Russian (ru) Научный метод		1 976 481
7	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		1 248 248
8	Arabic (ar) منهج علمي		1 128 424
9	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		569 121
10	Thai (th) ระเบียบวิธีแบบวิทยาศาสตร์		560 535

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) Scientific method		52 460
2	Spanish (es) Método científico		14 276
3	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		4 000
4	Russian (ru) Научный метод		3 595
5	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		2 686
6	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		2 153
7	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		1 254
8	Chinese (zh) 科学方法		935
9	Simple English (simple) Scientific method		842
10	Thai (th) ระเบียบวิธีแบบวิทยาศาสตร์		821

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scientific method		1 172
2	Spanish (es) Método científico		404
3	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		256
4	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		253
5	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		160
6	Russian (ru) Научный метод		131
7	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		109
8	Dutch (nl) Wetenschappelijke methode		96
9	Hebrew (he) השיטה המדעית		94
10	Simple English (simple) Scientific method		80

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	Spanish (es) Método científico		2
2	French (fr) Méthode scientifique		2
3	Italian (it) Metodo scientifico		2
4	Japanese (ja) 科学的方法		2
5	Catalan (ca) Mètode científic		1
6	English (en) Scientific method		1
7	Indonesian (id) Metode ilmiah		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Método científico		1
9	Arabic (ar) منهج علمي		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Elmi metod		0

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

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