Critical race theory

Quality:

Critical race theory - a conceptual framework developed to understand the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, which also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, not based only on individuals' prejudices. Article “Critical race theory” in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 282 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.39 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Critical race theory”, its content was written by 688 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 973 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 766 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1456 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #147 in June 2021
• Global: #619 in June 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4 in June 2021
• Global: #12 in June 2021

There are 25 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, 2026 (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	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		77.5522
2	Indonesian (id) Teori ras kritis		77.3333
3	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica racial		75.8815
4	Slovenian (sl) Kritična rasna teorija		75.5556
5	Korean (ko) 비판적 인종 이론		75.4738
6	German (de) Critical Race Theory		75.2653
7	English (en) Critical race theory		70.2361
8	Croatian (hr) Kritička rasna teorija		51.4818
9	Hebrew (he) תאוריה ביקורתית של גזע		45.1376
10	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		41.2607

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical race theory		21 255 322
2	German (de) Critical Race Theory		352 245
3	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		132 732
4	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		113 771
5	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		101 376
6	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		72 155
7	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		61 777
8	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		48 825
9	Swedish (sv) Kritisk rasteori		44 554
10	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		26 957

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) Critical race theory		21 567
2	German (de) Critical Race Theory		1 571
3	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		605
4	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		452
5	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		335
6	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		325
7	Japanese (ja) 批判的人種理論		193
8	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		193
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica racial		138
10	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		120

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Critical race theory		688
2	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		43
3	German (de) Critical Race Theory		42
4	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		28
5	Swedish (sv) Kritisk rasteori		18
6	Hebrew (he) תאוריה ביקורתית של גזע		16
7	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		13
8	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		13
9	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		12
10	Japanese (ja) 批判的人種理論		12

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	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica racial		4
2	Indonesian (id) Teori ras kritis		1
3	Korean (ko) 비판적 인종 이론		1
4	Slovenian (sl) Kritična rasna teorija		1
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية عرقية نقدية		0
6	Czech (cs) Kritická rasová teorie		0
7	Danish (da) Kritisk raceteori		0
8	German (de) Critical Race Theory		0
9	English (en) Critical race theory		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Kritika ras-teorio		0

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

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