Cognitive distortion

Cognitive distortion - exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset and perpetuation of psychopathological states. Article “Cognitive distortion” in English Wikipedia has 59.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.57 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Cognitive distortion” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cognitive distortion”, its content was written by 202 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 476 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 135 times in English Wikipedia and cited 877 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8587 in April 2020
• Global: #25564 in February 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #43575 in May 2015
• Global: #52570 in October 2020

There are 21 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	Indonesian (id) Distorsi kognitif		61.2922
2	English (en) Cognitive distortion		59.1502
3	Chinese (zh) 認知扭曲		55.3736
4	Esperanto (eo) Kogna misformo		54.86
5	German (de) Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)		42.0414
6	French (fr) Distorsion cognitive		40.2596
7	Japanese (ja) 認知の歪み		39.1888
8	Polish (pl) Zniekształcenia poznawcze		31.6465
9	Hebrew (he) עיוותי חשיבה		31.1693
10	Serbian (sr) Kognitivne distorzije		25.4277

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Cognitive distortion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cognitive distortion		2 778 956
2	Spanish (es) Distorsión cognitiva		932 526
3	Japanese (ja) 認知の歪み		548 505
4	German (de) Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)		163 254
5	French (fr) Distorsion cognitive		90 670
6	Arabic (ar) تشويه معرفي		81 640
7	Chinese (zh) 認知扭曲		79 815
8	Portuguese (pt) Distorção cognitiva		77 359
9	Hebrew (he) עיוותי חשיבה		66 284
10	Korean (ko) 인지적 왜곡		54 674

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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 "Cognitive distortion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cognitive distortion		7 739
2	Japanese (ja) 認知の歪み		2 469
3	Spanish (es) Distorsión cognitiva		1 150
4	Chinese (zh) 認知扭曲		1 149
5	German (de) Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)		1 125
6	French (fr) Distorsion cognitive		1 064
7	Korean (ko) 인지적 왜곡		855
8	Polish (pl) Zniekształcenia poznawcze		766
9	Simple English (simple) Cognitive distortions		538
10	Hebrew (he) עיוותי חשיבה		276

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cognitive distortion		202
2	Spanish (es) Distorsión cognitiva		35
3	Hebrew (he) עיוותי חשיבה		35
4	Polish (pl) Zniekształcenia poznawcze		29
5	Japanese (ja) 認知の歪み		28
6	German (de) Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)		23
7	Chinese (zh) 認知扭曲		17
8	Simple English (simple) Cognitive distortions		16
9	Arabic (ar) تشويه معرفي		13
10	Norwegian (no) Kognitive forstyrrelser		13

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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 "Cognitive distortion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cognitive distortion		2
2	Polish (pl) Zniekształcenia poznawcze		1
3	Arabic (ar) تشويه معرفي		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Когнитивно изкривяване		0
5	Catalan (ca) Distorsió cognitiva		0
6	German (de) Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Kogna misformo		0
8	Spanish (es) Distorsión cognitiva		0
9	Persian (fa) تحریف‌های شناختی		0
10	French (fr) Distorsion cognitive		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 "Cognitive distortion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Arabic (ar) تشويه معرفي		221
2	English (en) Cognitive distortion		135
3	Japanese (ja) 認知の歪み		105
4	Persian (fa) تحریف‌های شناختی		102
5	Chinese (zh) 認知扭曲		97
6	Portuguese (pt) Distorção cognitiva		42
7	Spanish (es) Distorsión cognitiva		39
8	Bulgarian (bg) Когнитивно изкривяване		24
9	Hebrew (he) עיוותי חשיבה		22
10	Catalan (ca) Distorsió cognitiva		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تشويه معرفي
bg	Bulgarian Когнитивно изкривяване
ca	Catalan Distorsió cognitiva
de	German Kognitive Verzerrung (klinische Psychologie)
en	English Cognitive distortion
eo	Esperanto Kogna misformo
es	Spanish Distorsión cognitiva
fa	Persian تحریف‌های شناختی
fr	French Distorsion cognitive
he	Hebrew עיוותי חשיבה
id	Indonesian Distorsi kognitif
ja	Japanese 認知の歪み
ko	Korean 인지적 왜곡
no	Norwegian Kognitive forstyrrelser
pl	Polish Zniekształcenia poznawcze
pt	Portuguese Distorção cognitiva
ro	Romanian Distorsiune cognitivă
simple	Simple English Cognitive distortions
sr	Serbian Kognitivne distorzije
vi	Vietnamese Biến dạng nhận thức
zh	Chinese 認知扭曲

Best Rank

English: #43575 05.2015

Global: #52570 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #8587 04.2020

Global: #25564 02.2025

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