McCarthyism

Quality:

McCarthyism - phenomenon in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy. Article “McCarthyism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6848^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8043^rd most popular in all topics.

The 6536^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4903^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8236^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “McCarthyism” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4903^rd place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “McCarthyism”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6536^th place).

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13893 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #182 in January 2023
• Global: #983 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1450 in June 2020
• Global: #1280 in July 2023

There are 45 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	Chinese (zh) 麦卡锡主义		91.9444
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Makartizam		90
3	English (en) McCarthyism		85.899
4	Latin (la) Maccarthismus		77.175
5	German (de) McCarthy-Ära		70.885
6	Serbian (sr) Макартизам		69.9686
7	Bulgarian (bg) Маккартизъм		69.2514
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chủ nghĩa McCarthy		59.3751
9	Hebrew (he) מקארתיזם		59.2872
10	Indonesian (id) McCarthyisme		57.7198

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) McCarthyism		17 690 459
2	French (fr) Maccarthysme		2 215 196
3	Spanish (es) Macartismo		1 791 852
4	German (de) McCarthy-Ära		1 489 781
5	Chinese (zh) 麦卡锡主义		1 327 999
6	Italian (it) Maccartismo		1 314 226
7	Russian (ru) Маккартизм		1 311 412
8	Portuguese (pt) Macarthismo		744 211
9	Japanese (ja) マッカーシズム		627 002
10	Polish (pl) Makkartyzm		356 469

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) McCarthyism		78 005
2	Chinese (zh) 麦卡锡主义		7 949
3	German (de) McCarthy-Ära		7 756
4	French (fr) Maccarthysme		7 074
5	Italian (it) Maccartismo		5 648
6	Russian (ru) Маккартизм		5 169
7	Spanish (es) Macartismo		5 161
8	Japanese (ja) マッカーシズム		2 538
9	Polish (pl) Makkartyzm		1 379
10	Hebrew (he) מקארתיזם		1 171

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) McCarthyism		1 336
2	French (fr) Maccarthysme		207
3	German (de) McCarthy-Ära		172
4	Italian (it) Maccartismo		140
5	Russian (ru) Маккартизм		121
6	Chinese (zh) 麦卡锡主义		108
7	Spanish (es) Macartismo		94
8	Japanese (ja) マッカーシズム		85
9	Dutch (nl) Mccarthyisme		85
10	Hebrew (he) מקארתיזם		83

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) McCarthyism		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Makkartizm		1
3	Spanish (es) Macartismo		1
4	Basque (eu) McCarthyismo		1
5	French (fr) Maccarthysme		1
6	Galician (gl) Macartismo		1
7	Russian (ru) Маккартизм		1
8	Simple English (simple) McCarthyism		1
9	Serbian (sr) Макартизам		1
10	Chinese (zh) 麦卡锡主义		1

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

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