Corporal punishment in schools

School corporal punishment - physical punishing of pupil at school. Article “Corporal punishment in schools” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 275 references and 63 sections.

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 “Corporal punishment in schools” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Corporal punishment in schools”, its content was written by 350 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 564 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 469 times in English Wikipedia and cited 705 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4879 in March 2016
• Global: #12887 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35546 in September 2014
• Global: #47200 in November 2013

There are 14 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) Corporal punishment in schools		100
2	Russian (ru) Телесные наказания в школе		79.8328
3	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		70.2272
4	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		63.6024
5	Korean (ko) 교내 체벌		61.9299
6	Swedish (sv) Skolaga		53.6859
7	Uzbek (uz) Maktabda jismoniy jazo		48.3835
8	Esperanto (eo) Lerneja korpa puno		30.5216
9	Greek (el) Σωματική τιμωρία στο σχολείο		26.3799
10	Catalan (ca) Càstig corporal escolar		26.3418

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Corporal punishment in schools" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Corporal punishment in schools		3 293 394
2	Russian (ru) Телесные наказания в школе		360 517
3	Arabic (ar) عقوبة بدنية مدرسية		334 411
4	Korean (ko) 교내 체벌		151 715
5	Swedish (sv) Skolaga		132 129
6	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		128 079
7	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		87 002
8	Indonesian (id) Hukuman fisik di sekolah		18 012
9	French (fr) Châtiment corporel scolaire		5 964
10	Hebrew (he) ענישה גופנית בבית הספר		5 072

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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 "Corporal punishment in schools" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Corporal punishment in schools		10 370
2	Russian (ru) Телесные наказания в школе		947
3	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		793
4	Korean (ko) 교내 체벌		500
5	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		472
6	Swedish (sv) Skolaga		142
7	French (fr) Châtiment corporel scolaire		138
8	Arabic (ar) عقوبة بدنية مدرسية		98
9	Hebrew (he) ענישה גופנית בבית הספר		48
10	Greek (el) Σωματική τιμωρία στο σχολείο		44

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

Language versions of the article "Corporal punishment in schools" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Corporal punishment in schools		350
2	Russian (ru) Телесные наказания в школе		49
3	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		40
4	Swedish (sv) Skolaga		31
5	Korean (ko) 교내 체벌		29
6	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		25
7	French (fr) Châtiment corporel scolaire		8
8	Arabic (ar) عقوبة بدنية مدرسية		7
9	Hebrew (he) ענישה גופנית בבית הספר		7
10	Uzbek (uz) Maktabda jismoniy jazo		7

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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 "Corporal punishment in schools" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Corporal punishment in schools		6
2	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		1
3	Arabic (ar) عقوبة بدنية مدرسية		0
4	Catalan (ca) Càstig corporal escolar		0
5	Greek (el) Σωματική τιμωρία στο σχολείο		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Lerneja korpa puno		0
7	French (fr) Châtiment corporel scolaire		0
8	Hebrew (he) ענישה גופנית בבית הספר		0
9	Indonesian (id) Hukuman fisik di sekolah		0
10	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		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 "Corporal punishment in schools" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Corporal punishment in schools		469
2	Arabic (ar) عقوبة بدنية مدرسية		115
3	Russian (ru) Телесные наказания в школе		29
4	Korean (ko) 교내 체벌		20
5	Italian (it) Punizioni corporali nelle scuole		16
6	Swedish (sv) Skolaga		15
7	Japanese (ja) 学校内における体罰		14
8	Hebrew (he) ענישה גופנית בבית הספר		10
9	French (fr) Châtiment corporel scolaire		8
10	Greek (el) Σωματική τιμωρία στο σχολείο		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عقوبة بدنية مدرسية
ca	Catalan Càstig corporal escolar
el	Greek Σωματική τιμωρία στο σχολείο
en	English Corporal punishment in schools
eo	Esperanto Lerneja korpa puno
fr	French Châtiment corporel scolaire
he	Hebrew ענישה גופנית בבית הספר
id	Indonesian Hukuman fisik di sekolah
it	Italian Punizioni corporali nelle scuole
ja	Japanese 学校内における体罰
ko	Korean 교내 체벌
ru	Russian Телесные наказания в школе
sv	Swedish Skolaga
uz	Uzbek Maktabda jismoniy jazo

Best Rank

English: #35546 09.2014

Global: #47200 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #4879 03.2016

Global: #12887 10.2020

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