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Sokal affair

1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal
Thing hoax Q1049105
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Sokal affair

Summary

Sokal affair is a hoax[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of hoax entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (544 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sokal affair's image is recorded as Alan Sokal.jpg[3].
  • Sokal affair's instance of is recorded as hoax[4].
  • Alan Sokal is named after Sokal affair[5].
  • Sokal affair's has part is recorded as Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity[6].
  • Sokal affair's has part is recorded as Fashionable Nonsense[7].
  • Sokal affair's has part is recorded as A physicist experiments with cultural studies[8].
  • Sokal affair's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07238[9].
  • Sokal affair's participant is recorded as Alan Sokal[10].
  • Sokal affair's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as ソーカル事件[11].
  • Sokal affair's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 소칼 사건[12].

Why It Matters

Sokal affair ranks in the top 9% of hoax entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (544 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Alan Sokal

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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