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Ad hominem

Quality:

Ad hominem - fallacious argumentative strategy that avoids genuine discussion of the topic by instead attacking the character, motive etc. of the person(s) associated with the argument. Article “Ad hominem” in Danish Wikipedia has 21.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ad hominem”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 2357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 3165 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Danish): #56 in July 2017
  • Global: #301 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Danish): #1705 in June 2022
  • Global: #5014 in January 2011

There are 46 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
1English (en)
Ad hominem
53.2509
2Latin (la)
Argumentum ad hominem
48.9452
3Thai (th)
Ad hominem
47.7644
4Uzbek (uz)
Ad hominem
44.6238
5Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
41.8363
6Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
40.0287
7Malay (ms)
Ad hominem
38.8538
8German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
34.7149
9Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
34.2367
10Hebrew (he)
אד הומינם
33.6491
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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 "Ad hominem" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ad hominem
13 429 437
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
3 624 520
3German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 240 974
4Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 084 406
5French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
966 703
6Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
778 393
7Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad hominem
435 790
8Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad hominem
297 876
9Finnish (fi)
Argumentum ad hominem
276 864
10Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
271 282
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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 "Ad hominem" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ad hominem
25 780
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
4 559
3German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
2 986
4French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
2 969
5Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
2 337
6Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 912
7Japanese (ja)
人身攻撃
1 468
8Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 409
9Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 253
10Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
843
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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 "Ad hominem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ad hominem
766
2German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
163
3Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
141
4French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
122
5Hebrew (he)
אד הומינם
96
6Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
81
7Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
79
8Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
73
9Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad hominem
64
10Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
63
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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 "Ad hominem" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ad hominem
4
2Hebrew (he)
אד הומינם
1
3Turkish (tr)
Ad hominem
1
4Ukrainian (uk)
Argumentum ad hominem
1
5Uzbek (uz)
Ad hominem
1
6Arabic (ar)
شخصنة
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Ad hominem
0
8Belarusian (be)
Ad hominem
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Ad hominem
0
10Catalan (ca)
Argument ad hominem
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 "Ad hominem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ad hominem
622
2Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
253
3Arabic (ar)
شخصنة
244
4Ukrainian (uk)
Argumentum ad hominem
209
5Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
164
6French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
135
7Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
122
8Persian (fa)
توسل به شخص
119
9Serbian (sr)
Argumentum ad hominem
110
10Simple English (simple)
Ad hominem
87
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شخصنة
azAzerbaijani
Ad hominem
beBelarusian
Ad hominem
bgBulgarian
Ad hominem
caCatalan
Argument ad hominem
csCzech
Argumentum ad hominem
daDanish
Ad hominem
deGerman
Argumentum ad hominem
elGreek
Ad hominem
enEnglish
Ad hominem
esSpanish
Argumento ad hominem
etEstonian
Argumentum ad hominem
euBasque
Ad hominem argudioa
faPersian
توسل به شخص
fiFinnish
Argumentum ad hominem
frFrench
Argumentum ad hominem
glGalician
Argumento ad hóminem
heHebrew
אד הומינם
hiHindi
व्यक्ति-केन्द्रित कुतर्क
hrCroatian
Ad hominem
huHungarian
Argumentum ad hominem
idIndonesian
Ad hominem
itItalian
Argumentum ad hominem
jaJapanese
人身攻撃
kaGeorgian
Ad hominem
koKorean
인신 공격의 오류
laLatin
Argumentum ad hominem
ltLithuanian
Argumentas prieš žmogų
msMalay
Ad hominem
nlDutch
Argumentum ad hominem
noNorwegian
Ad hominem-argument
plPolish
Argumentum ad hominem
ptPortuguese
Argumentum ad hominem
roRomanian
Ad hominem
ruRussian
Апелляция к личности
shSerbo-Croatian
Ad hominem
simpleSimple English
Ad hominem
skSlovak
Argumentum ad hominem
srSerbian
Argumentum ad hominem
svSwedish
Ad hominem-argument
thThai
Ad hominem
trTurkish
Ad hominem
ukUkrainian
Argumentum ad hominem
uzUzbek
Ad hominem
viVietnamese
Lập luận công kích cá nhân
zhChinese
訴諸人身

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Danish:
#1705
06.2022
Global:
#5014
01.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Danish:
#56
07.2017
Global:
#301
05.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ad hominem from Wikipedia articles about Stanford prison experiment, Whataboutism, Fallacy, Tu quoque and Straw man argument. Whereas reading the article about Ad hominem people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Fallacy, Argumentum ad personam, List of fallacies, Wikipedia article and Tu quoque.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Ad hominem

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