Critical race theory

Quality:

Critical race theory - academic movement regarding society, race and culture. Article “Critical race theory” in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 278 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.38 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Critical race theory” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Critical race theory”, its content was written by 672 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 937 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 669 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1302 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, 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	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		77.6934
2	Indonesian (id) Teori ras kritis		77.3333
3	Slovenian (sl) Kritična rasna teorija		75.5556
4	German (de) Critical Race Theory		75.5501
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica da raça		75.3288
6	English (en) Critical race theory		70.1652
7	Croatian (hr) Kritička rasna teorija		51.4152
8	Hebrew (he) תאוריה ביקורתית של גזע		42.9061
9	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		41.2697
10	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		39.1853

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical race theory		20 774 172
2	German (de) Critical Race Theory		321 981
3	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		125 375
4	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		93 386
5	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		85 860
6	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		69 866
7	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		54 781
8	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		47 810
9	Swedish (sv) Kritisk rasteori		43 360
10	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		25 640

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		37 663
2	German (de) Critical Race Theory		1 799
3	Simple English (simple) Critical race theory		789
4	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		714
5	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		683
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria crítica da raça		546
7	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		538
8	Japanese (ja) 批判的人種理論		401
9	Chinese (zh) 批判性种族理论		307
10	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		227

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		672
2	German (de) Critical Race Theory		42
3	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		39
4	Dutch (nl) Kritische rassentheorie		28
5	Swedish (sv) Kritisk rasteori		17
6	Hebrew (he) תאוריה ביקורתית של גזע		14
7	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		12
8	Japanese (ja) 批判的人種理論		12
9	Russian (ru) Критическая расовая теория		12
10	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		11

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) Critical race theory		4
2	Arabic (ar) نظرية عرقية نقدية		0
3	Czech (cs) Kritická rasová teorie		0
4	Danish (da) Kritisk raceteori		0
5	German (de) Critical Race Theory		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Kritika ras-teorio		0
7	Spanish (es) Teoría crítica de la raza		0
8	Persian (fa) نظریه انتقادی نژاد		0
9	Finnish (fi) Kriittinen rotuteoria		0
10	French (fr) Théorie critique de la race		0

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

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