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Publish or perish

Quality:

Publish or perish - phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continually publish academic work to sustain or further one's career. Article “Publish or perish” in German Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Publish or perish”, its content was written by 42 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 192 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in German Wikipedia and cited 255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #11521 in October 2013
  • Global: #81904 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #23094 in November 2015
  • Global: #202518 in November 2015

There are 12 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)
Publish or perish
36.9543
2Russian (ru)
Публикуйся или умри
32.1451
3Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
31.8558
4Arabic (ar)
النشر أو الهلاك
30.4514
5Armenian (hy)
Հրապարակվիր կամ մահացիր
25.1239
6Chinese (zh)
發表或死亡
24.364
7French (fr)
Publier ou périr
24.1513
8Ukrainian (uk)
Публікуйся або загинь
24.0245
9Japanese (ja)
出版か死か
22.8569
10German (de)
Publish or perish
22.1899
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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 "Publish or perish" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Publish or perish
700 520
2German (de)
Publish or perish
91 560
3French (fr)
Publier ou périr
27 702
4Chinese (zh)
發表或死亡
6 381
5Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
5 942
6Russian (ru)
Публикуйся или умри
5 134
7Turkish (tr)
Yayımla ya da yok ol
2 763
8Armenian (hy)
Հրապարակվիր կամ մահացիր
543
9Persian (fa)
منتشرکن یا نابودشو
247
10Arabic (ar)
النشر أو الهلاك
238
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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 "Publish or perish" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Publish or perish
3 757
2German (de)
Publish or perish
291
3Japanese (ja)
出版か死か
132
4French (fr)
Publier ou périr
122
5Chinese (zh)
發表或死亡
101
6Russian (ru)
Публикуйся или умри
81
7Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
67
8Turkish (tr)
Yayımla ya da yok ol
55
9Ukrainian (uk)
Публікуйся або загинь
19
10Persian (fa)
منتشرکن یا نابودشو
12
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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 "Publish or perish" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Publish or perish
104
2German (de)
Publish or perish
42
3French (fr)
Publier ou périr
15
4Russian (ru)
Публикуйся или умри
6
5Turkish (tr)
Yayımla ya da yok ol
6
6Japanese (ja)
出版か死か
4
7Ukrainian (uk)
Публікуйся або загинь
4
8Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
3
9Chinese (zh)
發表或死亡
3
10Arabic (ar)
النشر أو الهلاك
2
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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 "Publish or perish" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
出版か死か
4
2English (en)
Publish or perish
1
3Arabic (ar)
النشر أو الهلاك
0
4German (de)
Publish or perish
0
5Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
0
6Persian (fa)
منتشرکن یا نابودشو
0
7French (fr)
Publier ou périr
0
8Armenian (hy)
Հրապարակվիր կամ մահացիր
0
9Russian (ru)
Публикуйся или умри
0
10Turkish (tr)
Yayımla ya da yok ol
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 "Publish or perish" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Publish or perish
146
2Chinese (zh)
發表或死亡
30
3Turkish (tr)
Yayımla ya da yok ol
23
4German (de)
Publish or perish
16
5French (fr)
Publier ou périr
16
6Spanish (es)
Publicar o perecer
11
7Ukrainian (uk)
Публікуйся або загинь
5
8Arabic (ar)
النشر أو الهلاك
2
9Persian (fa)
منتشرکن یا نابودشو
2
10Japanese (ja)
出版か死か
2
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
النشر أو الهلاك
deGerman
Publish or perish
enEnglish
Publish or perish
esSpanish
Publicar o perecer
faPersian
منتشرکن یا نابودشو
frFrench
Publier ou périr
hyArmenian
Հրապարակվիր կամ մահացիր
jaJapanese
出版か死か
ruRussian
Публикуйся или умри
trTurkish
Yayımla ya da yok ol
ukUkrainian
Публікуйся або загинь
zhChinese
發表或死亡

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#23094
11.2015
Global:
#202518
11.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#11521
10.2013
Global:
#81904
09.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Publish or perish from Wikipedia articles about Research university, Up or out, Research paper mill, Replication crisis and Doctor of Philosophy. Whereas reading the article about Publish or perish people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Replication crisis, Academic careerism, Aphorism, Least publishable unit and Slow science.

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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