Sanktion

Quality:

Sanction - penalty or other mean of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law. Article “Sanktion” in Swedish Wikipedia has 12.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.66 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Sanktion”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 131 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 3511 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #393 in February 2024
• Global: #113 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #881 in March 2014
• Global: #14767 in March 2014

There are 25 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	German (de) Sanktion		42.5105
2	Polish (pl) Sankcje w prawie		34.654
3	Chinese (zh) 刑罚		32.5458
4	Japanese (ja) 刑罰		27.8864
5	Arabic (ar) عقوبة (قانون)		21.7071
6	Norwegian (no) Sanksjon (straff)		21.0781
7	Serbian (sr) Санкција		18.8168
8	Greek (el) Νομική κύρωση		17.2788
9	Romanian (ro) Sancțiune		15.4609
10	Hungarian (hu) Szankció		15.427

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Sanción (derecho)		1 837 709
2	German (de) Sanktion		1 559 747
3	Japanese (ja) 刑罰		1 079 749
4	English (en) Sanctions (law)		979 735
5	Italian (it) Sanzione		410 901
6	Portuguese (pt) Sanção jurídica		284 430
7	Russian (ru) Санкция нормы права		276 409
8	Swedish (sv) Sanktion		250 451
9	Chinese (zh) 刑罚		185 963
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبة (قانون)		123 706

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 刑罰		2 190
2	English (en) Sanctions (law)		1 885
3	Spanish (es) Sanción (derecho)		1 412
4	German (de) Sanktion		1 381
5	Chinese (zh) 刑罚		688
6	Russian (ru) Санкция нормы права		609
7	Polish (pl) Sankcje w prawie		240
8	Serbian (sr) Санкција		217
9	Ukrainian (uk) Санкція правової норми		182
10	Portuguese (pt) Sanção jurídica		165

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Sanktion		112
2	Japanese (ja) 刑罰		80
3	English (en) Sanctions (law)		74
4	Italian (it) Sanzione		53
5	Spanish (es) Sanción (derecho)		47
6	Dutch (nl) Sanctie (straf)		40
7	Chinese (zh) 刑罚		31
8	Danish (da) Sanktion		22
9	Swedish (sv) Sanktion		18
10	Portuguese (pt) Sanção jurídica		17

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	Greek (el) Νομική κύρωση		1
2	Japanese (ja) 刑罰		1
3	Chinese (zh) 刑罚		1
4	Arabic (ar) عقوبة (قانون)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Sanció		0
6	Danish (da) Sanktion		0
7	German (de) Sanktion		0
8	English (en) Sanctions (law)		0
9	Spanish (es) Sanción (derecho)		0
10	Croatian (hr) Sankcija		0

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

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