quackwatch.org

Quackwatch is a United States–based website, self-described as a "network of people" founded by Stephen Barrett, which aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere". Since 1996 it has operated the alternative medicine watchdog website quackwatch.org, which advises the public on unproven or ineffective alternative medicine remedies. The site contains articles and other information criticizing many forms of alternative medicine. More information...

Multilingual Wikipedia

In June 2020 the website quackwatch.org was on the 10,526th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 10,239th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "quackwatch.org" is the 10,417th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).

The website is placed before kcc.gov.tw and after websunday.net in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.

PR-score:
10,526th place
2,794,521
-1,480,651
AR-score:
10,417th place
402,876
+2,863
F-score:
10,239th place
1,185
+8

English Wikipedia (en)

PR-score:
8,663rd place
1,720,942
-1,278,904
AR-score:
6,969th place
255,582
+1,559
F-score:
8,807th place
453
+2

Spanish Wikipedia (es)

PR-score:
7,520th place
271,982
-84,140
AR-score:
8,467th place
26,409
+157
F-score:
5,639th place
97
0

Russian Wikipedia (ru)

PR-score:
8,075th place
234,591
-28,928
AR-score:
10,430th place
16,940
+72
F-score:
12,630th place
46
0

French Wikipedia (fr)

PR-score:
10,021st place
110,648
-9,012
AR-score:
14,397th place
14,024
+693
F-score:
15,009th place
38
+1

German Wikipedia (de)

PR-score:
17,166th place
87,888
-6,176
AR-score:
28,932nd place
8,487
+13
F-score:
36,269th place
12
0

Italian Wikipedia (it)

PR-score:
9,581st place
66,007
-22,987
AR-score:
10,783rd place
13,356
+28
F-score:
14,739th place
21
0

Greek Wikipedia (el)

PR-score:
4,368th place
11,932
-461
AR-score:
6,238th place
1,900
+17
F-score:
1,623rd place
47
+1

Arabic Wikipedia (ar)

PR-score:
13,006th place
10,458
-1,601
AR-score:
9,586th place
4,918
+20
F-score:
3,161st place
78
0
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