Boston Strangler

Quality:

Boston Strangler - Unidentified serial killer, however convicted rapist Albert DeSalvo confessed to many of these murders, DNA evidence links him to the final victim. Article “Boston Strangler” in English Wikipedia has 51.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.71 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.

In June 2025 the article “Boston Strangler” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Boston Strangler”, its content was written by 348 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 439 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 130 times in English Wikipedia and cited 185 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1653 in March 2023
• Global: #5910 in March 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #61 in March 2023
• Global: #145 in March 2023

There are 10 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) Boston Strangler		51.5314
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン絞殺魔事件		39.7978
3	French (fr) Affaire de l'étrangleur de Boston		36.1894
4	Greek (el) Στραγγαλιστής της Βοστώνης		33.8727
5	Finnish (fi) Bostonin kuristaja		26.6006
6	Arabic (ar) خناق بوسطن		22.1674
7	Russian (ru) Бостонский душитель (прозвище)		22.1336
8	Chinese (zh) 波士頓絞殺魔		15.2366
9	Czech (cs) Bostonský škrtič		12.3458
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bostonski davitelj		0.6161

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston Strangler		6 556 053
2	French (fr) Affaire de l'étrangleur de Boston		281 243
3	Japanese (ja) ボストン絞殺魔事件		172 844
4	Russian (ru) Бостонский душитель (прозвище)		149 590
5	Finnish (fi) Bostonin kuristaja		79 843
6	Czech (cs) Bostonský škrtič		49 065
7	Chinese (zh) 波士頓絞殺魔		15 210
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bostonski davitelj		10 638
9	Greek (el) Στραγγαλιστής της Βοστώνης		8 242
10	Arabic (ar) خناق بوسطن		4 813

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) Boston Strangler		59 264
2	Russian (ru) Бостонский душитель (прозвище)		2 209
3	French (fr) Affaire de l'étrangleur de Boston		1 407
4	Japanese (ja) ボストン絞殺魔事件		910
5	Chinese (zh) 波士頓絞殺魔		347
6	Czech (cs) Bostonský škrtič		236
7	Finnish (fi) Bostonin kuristaja		189
8	Arabic (ar) خناق بوسطن		118
9	Greek (el) Στραγγαλιστής της Βοστώνης		61
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bostonski davitelj		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boston Strangler		348
2	Finnish (fi) Bostonin kuristaja		26
3	French (fr) Affaire de l'étrangleur de Boston		18
4	Czech (cs) Bostonský škrtič		14
5	Japanese (ja) ボストン絞殺魔事件		12
6	Arabic (ar) خناق بوسطن		6
7	Russian (ru) Бостонский душитель (прозвище)		5
8	Greek (el) Στραγγαλιστής της Βοστώνης		4
9	Chinese (zh) 波士頓絞殺魔		4
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bostonski davitelj		2

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) Boston Strangler		1
2	Arabic (ar) خناق بوسطن		0
3	Czech (cs) Bostonský škrtič		0
4	Greek (el) Στραγγαλιστής της Βοστώνης		0
5	Finnish (fi) Bostonin kuristaja		0
6	French (fr) Affaire de l'étrangleur de Boston		0
7	Japanese (ja) ボストン絞殺魔事件		0
8	Russian (ru) Бостонский душитель (прозвище)		0
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bostonski davitelj		0
10	Chinese (zh) 波士頓絞殺魔		0

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

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