Attachment theory

Quality:

Attachment theory - Psychological ethological theory about human relationships. Article “Attachment theory” in English Wikipedia has 93.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 325 references and 39 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9962^nd most popular in all topics.

In June 2025 the article “Attachment theory” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Attachment theory”, its content was written by 644 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1793 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1025 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1428 in January 2010
• Global: #2941 in January 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3637 in January 2010
• Global: #4400 in February 2015

There are 36 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	Spanish (es) Teoría del apego		97.3554
2	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do apego		96.3983
3	English (en) Attachment theory		93.656
4	Thai (th) ทฤษฎีความผูกพัน		93.6206
5	French (fr) Théorie de l'attachement		88.6006
6	Korean (ko) 애착 이론		87.5248
7	German (de) Bindungstheorie		85.5346
8	Russian (ru) Теория привязанности		83.125
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية التعلق		82.4888
10	Armenian (hy) Կապվածության տեսություն		81.2978

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Attachment theory		12 844 451
2	German (de) Bindungstheorie		3 239 007
3	French (fr) Théorie de l'attachement		1 672 983
4	Spanish (es) Teoría del apego		1 498 443
5	Chinese (zh) 依附理論		1 164 429
6	Russian (ru) Теория привязанности		977 116
7	Japanese (ja) 愛着理論		850 913
8	Italian (it) Attaccamento		623 638
9	Swedish (sv) Anknytningsteori		482 999
10	Hebrew (he) תאוריית ההיקשרות		447 438

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) Attachment theory		39 720
2	Russian (ru) Теория привязанности		7 003
3	German (de) Bindungstheorie		6 737
4	French (fr) Théorie de l'attachement		5 348
5	Chinese (zh) 依附理論		4 576
6	Korean (ko) 애착 이론		3 544
7	Spanish (es) Teoría del apego		2 595
8	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do apego		2 227
9	Hebrew (he) תאוריית ההיקשרות		1 759
10	Polish (pl) Teoria przywiązania		1 537

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Attachment theory		644
2	German (de) Bindungstheorie		212
3	French (fr) Théorie de l'attachement		142
4	Hebrew (he) תאוריית ההיקשרות		86
5	Spanish (es) Teoría del apego		69
6	Italian (it) Attaccamento		64
7	Dutch (nl) Hechting (psychologie)		56
8	Swedish (sv) Anknytningsteori		53
9	Russian (ru) Теория привязанности		48
10	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do apego		44

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) Attachment theory		6
2	French (fr) Théorie de l'attachement		4
3	Korean (ko) 애착 이론		4
4	Danish (da) Tilknytningsteori		2
5	Polish (pl) Teoria przywiązania		2
6	Simple English (simple) Infant attachment		1
7	Arabic (ar) نظرية التعلق		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Bağlılıq nəzəriyyəsi		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Теория на привързаността		0
10	Catalan (ca) Teoria de l'aferrament		0

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

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