Thought experiment

Quality:

Thought experiment - considering hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences. Article “Thought experiment” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.26 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Thought experiment”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1185 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3910 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #254 in January 2007
• Global: #670 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8915 in February 2017
• Global: #8026 in August 2009

There are 43 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	Malay (ms) Uji kaji pemikiran		96.5877
2	Armenian (hy) Մտքի փորձ		67.046
3	English (en) Thought experiment		51.6303
4	French (fr) Expérience de pensée		39.1859
5	Chinese (zh) 假想實驗		36.1142
6	Ukrainian (uk) Уявний експеримент		29.9592
7	Thai (th) การทดลองทางความคิด		26.0438
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Misaoni eksperiment		24.391
9	Esperanto (eo) Pensa eksperimento		24.196
10	German (de) Gedankenexperiment		24.1912

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thought experiment		4 058 423
2	Japanese (ja) 思考実験		1 173 671
3	Spanish (es) Experimento mental		400 367
4	German (de) Gedankenexperiment		369 763
5	Russian (ru) Мысленный эксперимент		355 971
6	French (fr) Expérience de pensée		318 711
7	Chinese (zh) 假想實驗		201 497
8	Italian (it) Esperimento mentale		198 551
9	Portuguese (pt) Experimento mental		161 373
10	Polish (pl) Eksperyment myślowy		120 847

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) Thought experiment		9 494
2	Japanese (ja) 思考実験		3 944
3	French (fr) Expérience de pensée		851
4	German (de) Gedankenexperiment		648
5	Russian (ru) Мысленный эксперимент		520
6	Chinese (zh) 假想實驗		485
7	Spanish (es) Experimento mental		417
8	Italian (it) Esperimento mentale		343
9	Polish (pl) Eksperyment myślowy		213
10	Portuguese (pt) Experimento mental		147

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thought experiment		373
2	German (de) Gedankenexperiment		134
3	French (fr) Expérience de pensée		89
4	Japanese (ja) 思考実験		57
5	Dutch (nl) Gedachte-experiment		44
6	Italian (it) Esperimento mentale		42
7	Chinese (zh) 假想實驗		42
8	Hebrew (he) ניסוי מחשבתי		41
9	Russian (ru) Мысленный эксперимент		38
10	Spanish (es) Experimento mental		37

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) Thought experiment		2
2	Catalan (ca) Experiment mental		1
3	Basque (eu) Gogo-esperimentu		1
4	Japanese (ja) 思考実験		1
5	Arabic (ar) تجربة فكرية		0
6	Belarusian (be) Уяўны эксперымент		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Мисловен експеримент		0
8	Czech (cs) Myšlenkový experiment		0
9	Danish (da) Tankeeksperiment		0
10	German (de) Gedankenexperiment		0

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

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