Scapegoating

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Scapegoating

Quality:

Scapegoating - practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat. Article “Scapegoating” in English Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Scapegoating” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Scapegoating”, its content was written by 347 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 571 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1290 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2931 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5314 in April 2004
  • Global: #13743 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #30953 in October 2010
  • Global: #35581 in October 2011

There are 15 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
39.8033
2English (en)
Scapegoating
30.8236
3Polish (pl)
Kozioł ofiarny
30.3498
4Azerbaijani (az)
Günah keçisi
21.1692
5Czech (cs)
Hledání obětního beránka
20.8313
6Japanese (ja)
スケープゴート
17.6039
7Korean (ko)
희생양
13.3546
8Danish (da)
Syndebuk
12.0266
9Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
10.4154
10Persian (fa)
گریزان
9.8721
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Scapegoating" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scapegoating
2 382 021
2Japanese (ja)
スケープゴート
1 932 807
3Polish (pl)
Kozioł ofiarny
285 365
4Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
54 946
5Korean (ko)
희생양
35 308
6Danish (da)
Syndebuk
13 630
7Croatian (hr)
Žrtveni jarac
13 357
8Hungarian (hu)
Bűnbakképzés
13 345
9Hindi (hi)
बलि का बकरा
12 022
10Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
9 818
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Scapegoating" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scapegoating
11 355
2Japanese (ja)
スケープゴート
4 901
3Polish (pl)
Kozioł ofiarny
525
4Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
185
5Korean (ko)
희생양
150
6Danish (da)
Syndebuk
67
7Serbian (sr)
Жртвени јарац
63
8Croatian (hr)
Žrtveni jarac
52
9Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
51
10Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Žrtveni jarac
39
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Scapegoating" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scapegoating
347
2Polish (pl)
Kozioł ofiarny
50
3Japanese (ja)
スケープゴート
48
4Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
29
5Croatian (hr)
Žrtveni jarac
19
6Hindi (hi)
बलि का बकरा
14
7Hungarian (hu)
Bűnbakképzés
13
8Serbian (sr)
Жртвени јарац
13
9Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
10
10Danish (da)
Syndebuk
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Scapegoating" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scapegoating
3
2Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
1
3Azerbaijani (az)
Günah keçisi
0
4Czech (cs)
Hledání obětního beránka
0
5Danish (da)
Syndebuk
0
6Persian (fa)
گریزان
0
7Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
0
8Hindi (hi)
बलि का बकरा
0
9Croatian (hr)
Žrtveni jarac
0
10Hungarian (hu)
Bűnbakképzés
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Scapegoating" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Scapegoating
1 290
2Persian (fa)
گریزان
620
3Serbian (sr)
Жртвени јарац
407
4Japanese (ja)
スケープゴート
210
5Hebrew (he)
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
200
6Korean (ko)
희생양
64
7Polish (pl)
Kozioł ofiarny
46
8Indonesian (id)
Mengambinghitamkan
36
9Danish (da)
Syndebuk
24
10Croatian (hr)
Žrtveni jarac
19
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
azAzerbaijani
Günah keçisi
csCzech
Hledání obětního beránka
daDanish
Syndebuk
enEnglish
Scapegoating
faPersian
گریزان
heHebrew
שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
hiHindi
बलि का बकरा
hrCroatian
Žrtveni jarac
huHungarian
Bűnbakképzés
idIndonesian
Mengambinghitamkan
jaJapanese
スケープゴート
koKorean
희생양
plPolish
Kozioł ofiarny
shSerbo-Croatian
Žrtveni jarac
srSerbian
Жртвени јарац

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#30953
10.2010
Global:
#35581
10.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5314
04.2004
Global:
#13743
10.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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