Theoretical computer science

Quality:

Theoretical computer science - subfield of computer science and mathematics. Article “Theoretical computer science” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Theoretical computer science”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 745 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3757 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1566 in March 2012
• Global: #2395 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4606 in August 2014
• Global: #66365 in September 2014

There are 35 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Theoretical computer science		82.5192
2	Indonesian (id) Ilmu komputer teoretis		79.2174
3	Greek (el) Θεωρητική Πληροφορική		68.2766
4	Portuguese (pt) Ciência da computação teórica		65.5388
5	Catalan (ca) Informàtica teòrica		63.1907
6	Ukrainian (uk) Теоретична інформатика		49.839
7	Spanish (es) Ciencia computacional teórica		48.0142
8	Chinese (zh) 理論計算機科學		36.2274
9	German (de) Theoretische Informatik		29.7949
10	Turkish (tr) Teorik bilgisayar bilimi		29.7388

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theoretical computer science		1 802 604
2	German (de) Theoretische Informatik		549 054
3	French (fr) Informatique théorique		236 392
4	Japanese (ja) 理論計算機科学		102 791
5	Arabic (ar) علم الحاسوب النظري		90 169
6	Russian (ru) Теоретическая информатика		85 558
7	Chinese (zh) 理論計算機科學		80 030
8	Italian (it) Informatica teorica		61 525
9	Spanish (es) Ciencia computacional teórica		60 704
10	Portuguese (pt) Ciência da computação teórica		31 752

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) Theoretical computer science		5 572
2	German (de) Theoretische Informatik		687
3	French (fr) Informatique théorique		492
4	Japanese (ja) 理論計算機科学		383
5	Chinese (zh) 理論計算機科學		288
6	Russian (ru) Теоретическая информатика		201
7	Portuguese (pt) Ciência da computação teórica		198
8	Spanish (es) Ciencia computacional teórica		194
9	Italian (it) Informatica teorica		97
10	Czech (cs) Teoretická informatika		68

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Theoretical computer science		173
2	German (de) Theoretische Informatik		151
3	French (fr) Informatique théorique		79
4	Italian (it) Informatica teorica		32
5	Japanese (ja) 理論計算機科学		23
6	Arabic (ar) علم الحاسوب النظري		19
7	Greek (el) Θεωρητική Πληροφορική		18
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теоретична інформатика		17
9	Spanish (es) Ciencia computacional teórica		16
10	Finnish (fi) Tietojenkäsittelyteoria		15

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	German (de) Theoretische Informatik		1
2	Spanish (es) Ciencia computacional teórica		1
3	Basque (eu) Informatika teoriko		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Ciência da computação teórica		1
5	Arabic (ar) علم الحاسوب النظري		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Nəzəri informatika		0
7	Belarusian (be) Тэарэтычная інфарматыка		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Теоретична информатика		0
9	Catalan (ca) Informàtica teòrica		0
10	Czech (cs) Teoretická informatika		0

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

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