Magical thinking

Magical thinking - illogical conclusions based on correlated events, or belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them. Article “Magical thinking” in English Wikipedia has 52.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 12 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Magical thinking” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Magical thinking”, its content was written by 347 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 591 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2690 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #42 in March 2003
• Global: #269 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #49497 in March 2011
• Global: #44755 in November 2008

There are 28 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	English (en) Magical thinking		52.0889
2	Italian (it) Pensiero magico		45.1115
3	Thai (th) ความคิดเชิงไสยศาสตร์		43.862
4	Arabic (ar) تفكير سحري		36.6153
5	Russian (ru) Магическое мышление		31.8835
6	Turkish (tr) Büyülü düşünme		31.0436
7	German (de) Magisches Denken		29.877
8	Ukrainian (uk) Магічне мислення		27.4001
9	Armenian (hy) Մոգական մտածողություն		25.6127
10	Indonesian (id) Pemikiran magis		25.5394

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Magical thinking" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magical thinking		2 676 791
2	Spanish (es) Pensamiento mágico		1 220 002
3	German (de) Magisches Denken		626 996
4	Russian (ru) Магическое мышление		518 289
5	French (fr) Pensée magique		336 634
6	Polish (pl) Myślenie magiczne		277 982
7	Dutch (nl) Magisch denken		193 244
8	Italian (it) Pensiero magico		154 733
9	Japanese (ja) 呪術的思考		124 474
10	Portuguese (pt) Pensamento mágico		85 842

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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 "Magical thinking" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magical thinking		11 850
2	Russian (ru) Магическое мышление		2 540
3	German (de) Magisches Denken		1 402
4	French (fr) Pensée magique		1 150
5	Spanish (es) Pensamiento mágico		858
6	Polish (pl) Myślenie magiczne		605
7	Italian (it) Pensiero magico		472
8	Japanese (ja) 呪術的思考		414
9	Dutch (nl) Magisch denken		219
10	Simple English (simple) Magical thinking		211

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magical thinking		347
2	French (fr) Pensée magique		68
3	Spanish (es) Pensamiento mágico		66
4	German (de) Magisches Denken		62
5	Dutch (nl) Magisch denken		50
6	Russian (ru) Магическое мышление		46
7	Italian (it) Pensiero magico		31
8	Polish (pl) Myślenie magiczne		31
9	Japanese (ja) 呪術的思考		23
10	Persian (fa) تفکر جادویی		13

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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 "Magical thinking" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magical thinking		1
2	Arabic (ar) تفكير سحري		0
3	German (de) Magisches Denken		0
4	Greek (el) Ευσεβείς πόθοι		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Revopensado		0
6	Spanish (es) Pensamiento mágico		0
7	Basque (eu) Pentsamendu magiko		0
8	Persian (fa) تفکر جادویی		0
9	French (fr) Pensée magique		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Vágyvezérelt gondolkodás		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 "Magical thinking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Magical thinking		591
2	Persian (fa) تفکر جادویی		582
3	Serbian (sr) Магијско мишљење		367
4	Russian (ru) Магическое мышление		236
5	Arabic (ar) تفكير سحري		220
6	French (fr) Pensée magique		113
7	Italian (it) Pensiero magico		90
8	Spanish (es) Pensamiento mágico		72
9	Japanese (ja) 呪術的思考		66
10	Ukrainian (uk) Магічне мислення		66

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تفكير سحري
de	German Magisches Denken
el	Greek Ευσεβείς πόθοι
en	English Magical thinking
eo	Esperanto Revopensado
es	Spanish Pensamiento mágico
eu	Basque Pentsamendu magiko
fa	Persian تفکر جادویی
fr	French Pensée magique
hu	Hungarian Vágyvezérelt gondolkodás
hy	Armenian Մոգական մտածողություն
id	Indonesian Pemikiran magis
it	Italian Pensiero magico
ja	Japanese 呪術的思考
ko	Korean 주술적 사고
lt	Lithuanian Maginis mąstymas
ms	Malay Pemikiran magis
nl	Dutch Magisch denken
pl	Polish Myślenie magiczne
pt	Portuguese Pensamento mágico
ro	Romanian Gândire magică
ru	Russian Магическое мышление
simple	Simple English Magical thinking
sr	Serbian Магијско мишљење
sv	Swedish Magiskt tänkande
th	Thai ความคิดเชิงไสยศาสตร์
tr	Turkish Büyülü düşünme
uk	Ukrainian Магічне мислення

Best Rank

English: #49497 03.2011

Global: #44755 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #42 03.2003

Global: #269 03.2003

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