John Backus

sv

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

John Backus

Quality:

John Backus - American computer scientist (1924–2007). Article “John Backus” in Swedish Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “John Backus”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 974 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 4346 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Swedish): #20393 in November 2009
  • Global: #3300 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Swedish): #116574 in October 2011
  • Global: #142092 in December 2013

There are 39 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
1Hungarian (hu)
John Backus
44.981
2English (en)
John Backus
37.8884
3Dutch (nl)
John Backus
35.1388
4Spanish (es)
John Backus
32.6795
5Swedish (sv)
John Backus
29.9445
6Basque (eu)
John Backus
29.7948
7Croatian (hr)
John Backus
28.3566
8Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
28.0174
9Finnish (fi)
John Backus
27.4344
10Azerbaijani (az)
Con Bekus
26.7767
More...

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 "John Backus" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
John Backus
835 479
2Spanish (es)
John Backus
99 312
3Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
94 187
4German (de)
John W. Backus
87 253
5Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
72 080
6French (fr)
John Backus
58 195
7Polish (pl)
John Backus
38 944
8Portuguese (pt)
John Backus
34 821
9Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
34 531
10Italian (it)
John Backus
32 183
More...

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 "John Backus" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
John Backus
3 745
2Spanish (es)
John Backus
321
3German (de)
John W. Backus
273
4Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
254
5Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
233
6Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
217
7French (fr)
John Backus
196
8Portuguese (pt)
John Backus
68
9Italian (it)
John Backus
66
10Polish (pl)
John Backus
66
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "John Backus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
John Backus
193
2German (de)
John W. Backus
85
3French (fr)
John Backus
80
4Italian (it)
John Backus
60
5Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
55
6Dutch (nl)
John Backus
43
7Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
42
8Polish (pl)
John Backus
32
9Norwegian (no)
John Backus
31
10Danish (da)
John Backus
29
More...

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 "John Backus" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
جون باكوس
1
2Turkish (tr)
John Backus
1
3Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
1
4Azerbaijani (az)
Con Bekus
0
5Belarusian (be)
Джон Бэкус
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Джон Бекъс
0
7Catalan (ca)
John W. Backus
0
8Czech (cs)
John Backus
0
9Danish (da)
John Backus
0
10German (de)
John W. Backus
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "John Backus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
John Backus
712
2Portuguese (pt)
John Backus
548
3Arabic (ar)
جون باكوس
435
4Chinese (zh)
約翰·巴科斯
431
5Persian (fa)
جان باکوس
418
6German (de)
John W. Backus
125
7French (fr)
John Backus
121
8Japanese (ja)
ジョン・バッカス
116
9Russian (ru)
Бэкус, Джон
115
10Ukrainian (uk)
Джон Бекус
98
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Swedish:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Swedish:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Swedish:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Swedish:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Swedish:
Global:
Citations:
Swedish:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
جون باكوس
azAzerbaijani
Con Bekus
beBelarusian
Джон Бэкус
bgBulgarian
Джон Бекъс
caCatalan
John W. Backus
csCzech
John Backus
daDanish
John Backus
deGerman
John W. Backus
enEnglish
John Backus
eoEsperanto
John Backus
esSpanish
John Backus
etEstonian
John Backus
euBasque
John Backus
faPersian
جان باکوس
fiFinnish
John Backus
frFrench
John Backus
glGalician
John Backus
hiHindi
जॉन बॅकस
hrCroatian
John Backus
huHungarian
John Backus
itItalian
John Backus
jaJapanese
ジョン・バッカス
koKorean
존 배커스
nlDutch
John Backus
noNorwegian
John Backus
plPolish
John Backus
ptPortuguese
John Backus
roRomanian
John Backus
ruRussian
Бэкус, Джон
shSerbo-Croatian
John Backus
simpleSimple English
John Backus
skSlovak
John Backus
srSerbian
Џон Бакус
svSwedish
John Backus
thThai
จอห์น แบกคัส
trTurkish
John Backus
ukUkrainian
Джон Бекус
viVietnamese
John Backus
zhChinese
約翰·巴科斯

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#116574
10.2011
Global:
#142092
12.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#20393
11.2009
Global:
#3300
03.2007

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on John Backus from Wikipedia articles about Fortran, Backus–Naur form, Turing Award, Speedcoding and History of programming languages. Whereas reading the article about John Backus people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Backus–Naur form, Fortran, Speedcoding, Function-level programming and Turing Award.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: John Backus

News from 21 December 2025

On 21 December 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Anthony Joshua, James Ransone, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Jake Paul, Wake Up Dead Man, Stranger Things, Ghislaine Maxwell, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water.

In Swedish Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Jeffrey Epstein, Brolle, Prinsessan Estelle, Vintersolståndet, Bildsköne Bengtsson, Tidstjuven, Mimi Werner, Maja Rung, Ghislaine Maxwell, Julkalendern i Sveriges Television.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information