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Backcasting

Quality:

Backcasting - influencing current reality from desired future state scenario. Article “Backcasting” in German Wikipedia has 28.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Backcasting”, its content was written by 9 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 75 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in German Wikipedia and cited 118 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1437 in February 2024
  • Global: #62423 in February 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #398231 in February 2024
  • Global: #466666 in January 2022

There are 8 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
1Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
36.3077
2Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
30.7707
3English (en)
Backcasting
30.326
4German (de)
Backcasting
28.7614
5Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
17.1582
6Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
5.9936
7Danish (da)
Backcasting
2.5286
8Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
1.0658
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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 "Backcasting" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Backcasting
341 732
2Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
8 783
3Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
4 367
4German (de)
Backcasting
2 626
5Danish (da)
Backcasting
2 113
6Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
653
7Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
618
8Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
429
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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 "Backcasting" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Backcasting
1 253
2German (de)
Backcasting
94
3Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
91
4Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
16
5Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
16
6Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
13
7Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
10
8Danish (da)
Backcasting
7
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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 "Backcasting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Backcasting
49
2German (de)
Backcasting
9
3Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
4
4Danish (da)
Backcasting
4
5Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
4
6Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
2
7Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
2
8Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
1
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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 "Backcasting" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
1
2Danish (da)
Backcasting
0
3German (de)
Backcasting
0
4English (en)
Backcasting
0
5Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
0
6Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
0
7Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
0
8Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
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 "Backcasting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Backcasting
54
2Ukrainian (uk)
Ретрополяція
30
3Russian (ru)
Ретрополяция
18
4Arabic (ar)
تنبؤ رجعي
8
5German (de)
Backcasting
5
6Danish (da)
Backcasting
1
7Persian (fa)
پس‌نگری
1
8Swedish (sv)
Motströmsanalys
1
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تنبؤ رجعي
daDanish
Backcasting
deGerman
Backcasting
enEnglish
Backcasting
faPersian
پس‌نگری
ruRussian
Ретрополяция
svSwedish
Motströmsanalys
ukUkrainian
Ретрополяція

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#398231
02.2024
Global:
#466666
01.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1437
02.2024
Global:
#62423
02.2024

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Backcasting from Wikipedia articles about Mathematical extrapolation, Futures studies, Thought experiment, Time series and Mathematical interpolation. Whereas reading the article about Backcasting people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Forecasting, Horizon scanning, Global Scenario Group, Foresight and Futures studies.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

News from 21 February 2026

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