Argument from authority

Argument from authority - a form of defeasible argument in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion. Article "Argument from authority" in English Wikipedia has 54.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 69 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "Argument from authority" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Argument from authority", its content was written by 448 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 293 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1754 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #184 in May 2001
• Global: #192 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23905 in March 2015
• Global: #33153 in March 2015

There are 33 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 August 1, 2024 (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	English (en) Argument from authority		54.4392
2	Thai (th) การอ้างอำนาจ		45.1777
3	Chinese (zh) 訴諸權威		44.8971
4	Arabic (ar) توسل بالمرجعية		35.192
5	Italian (it) Argumentum ab auctoritate		28.4254
6	Catalan (ca) Apel·lació a l'autoritat		26.2723
7	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į autoritetą		25.9646
8	Estonian (et) Argumentum ad verecundiam		25.5476
9	Bulgarian (bg) Аргумент към авторитета		24.7179
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lập luận từ thẩm quyền		24.36

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Argument from authority" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Argument from authority		2 876 223
2	Spanish (es) Argumento ad verecundiam		1 563 272
3	French (fr) Argument d'autorité		415 437
4	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad verecundiam		258 316
5	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad auctoritatem		195 737
6	German (de) Argumentum ad verecundiam		161 118
7	Russian (ru) Апелляция к авторитету		122 246
8	Japanese (ja) 権威に訴える論証		108 447
9	Chinese (zh) 訴諸權威		89 391
10	Dutch (nl) Beroep op autoriteit		74 784

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Argument from authority" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Argument from authority		10 153
2	Spanish (es) Argumento ad verecundiam		5 447
3	French (fr) Argument d'autorité		1 437
4	Russian (ru) Апелляция к авторитету		981
5	German (de) Argumentum ad verecundiam		861
6	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad auctoritatem		762
7	Japanese (ja) 権威に訴える論証		710
8	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad verecundiam		553
9	Chinese (zh) 訴諸權威		464
10	Italian (it) Argumentum ab auctoritate		286

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

Language versions of the article "Argument from authority" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Argument from authority		448
2	French (fr) Argument d'autorité		108
3	Spanish (es) Argumento ad verecundiam		68
4	German (de) Argumentum ad verecundiam		66
5	Dutch (nl) Beroep op autoriteit		50
6	Italian (it) Argumentum ab auctoritate		44
7	Finnish (fi) Auktoriteettiin vetoaminen		38
8	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad verecundiam		33
9	Japanese (ja) 権威に訴える論証		28
10	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad auctoritatem		25

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

Language versions of the article "Argument from authority" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Argument from authority		2
2	French (fr) Argument d'autorité		1
3	Arabic (ar) توسل بالمرجعية		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Аргумент към авторитета		0
5	Catalan (ca) Apel·lació a l'autoritat		0
6	German (de) Argumentum ad verecundiam		0
7	Greek (el) Προσφυγή στην αυθεντία		0
8	Spanish (es) Argumento ad verecundiam		0
9	Estonian (et) Argumentum ad verecundiam		0
10	Basque (eu) Ad verecundiam argudioa		0

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

Language versions of the article "Argument from authority" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Argument from authority		293
2	Chinese (zh) 訴諸權威		196
3	Arabic (ar) توسل بالمرجعية		158
4	Ukrainian (uk) Звернення до авторитету		149
5	French (fr) Argument d'autorité		140
6	Spanish (es) Argumento ad verecundiam		136
7	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad verecundiam		98
8	Japanese (ja) 権威に訴える論証		69
9	Persian (fa) توسل به مرجعیت		62
10	Catalan (ca) Apel·lació a l'autoritat		48

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توسل بالمرجعية
bg	Bulgarian Аргумент към авторитета
ca	Catalan Apel·lació a l'autoritat
de	German Argumentum ad verecundiam
el	Greek Προσφυγή στην αυθεντία
en	English Argument from authority
es	Spanish Argumento ad verecundiam
et	Estonian Argumentum ad verecundiam
eu	Basque Ad verecundiam argudioa
fa	Persian توسل به مرجعیت
fi	Finnish Auktoriteettiin vetoaminen
fr	French Argument d'autorité
hu	Hungarian Argumentum ad verecundiam
hy	Armenian Հեղինակության վկայակոչում
id	Indonesian Argumentum ab auctoritate
it	Italian Argumentum ab auctoritate
ja	Japanese 権威に訴える論証
ko	Korean 권위에 호소하는 논증
lt	Lithuanian Apeliavimas į autoritetą
nl	Dutch Beroep op autoriteit
no	Norwegian Autoritetsargument
pl	Polish Argumentum ad auctoritatem
pt	Portuguese Argumentum ad verecundiam
ro	Romanian Apelul la autoritate
ru	Russian Апелляция к авторитету
sh	Serbo-Croatian Argumentum ad verecundiam
simple	Simple English Argument from authority
sv	Swedish Auktoritetsargument
th	Thai การอ้างอำนาจ
tr	Turkish Argumentum ad verecundiam
uk	Ukrainian Звернення до авторитету
vi	Vietnamese Lập luận từ thẩm quyền
zh	Chinese 訴諸權威

Best Rank

English: #23905 03.2015

Global: #33153 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #184 05.2001

Global: #192 05.2001

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