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The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis
Guillaume Rollin, Jos\'e Lages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06034 https://

The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis
We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), we apply the PageRank and CheiRank algorithms to analyze their relative ranking and influence in each linguistic context. Furthermore, we compare our results with entries from the Stanford Encyclopedi…