Backscatter (email)

Backscatter - incorrectly automated bounce messages sent by mail servers, typically as a side effect of incoming spam. Article “Backscatter (email)” in English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.13 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Backscatter (email)”, its content was written by 71 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 62 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23355 in April 2008
• Global: #72636 in April 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #97403 in August 2010
• Global: #133320 in August 2010

There are 6 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	English (en) Backscatter (email)		21.4281
2	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		16.3316
3	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		11.2034
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		2.6824
5	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		1.2075
6	Polish (pl) Backscatter		0.5714

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backscatter (email)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter (email)		563 795
2	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		117 222
3	Polish (pl) Backscatter		36 403
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		10 053
5	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		4 479
6	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		2 912

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backscatter (email)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter (email)		1 675
2	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		232
3	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		75
4	Polish (pl) Backscatter		40
5	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		36
6	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		23

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

Language versions of the article "Backscatter (email)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backscatter (email)		71
2	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		24
3	Polish (pl) Backscatter		15
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		7
5	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		2
6	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		1

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

Language versions of the article "Backscatter (email)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Backscatter		1
2	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		0
3	English (en) Backscatter (email)		0
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		0
5	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		0
6	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Backscatter (email)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Backscatter (email)		29
2	Japanese (ja) バックスキャッター (電子メール)		12
3	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)		8
4	Polish (pl) Backscatter		6
5	German (de) Backscatter (E-Mail)		5
6	Italian (it) Backscatter (posta elettronica)		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Backscatter (E-Mail)
en	English Backscatter (email)
fr	French Rétrodiffusion (courrier électronique)
it	Italian Backscatter (posta elettronica)
ja	Japanese バックスキャッター (電子メール)
pl	Polish Backscatter

Best Rank

English: #97403 08.2010

Global: #133320 08.2010

Best Rank

English: #23355 04.2008

Global: #72636 04.2008

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