Death by burning

Quality:

Death by burning - execution method. Article “Death by burning” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 219 references and 29 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Death by burning” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Death by burning”, its content was written by 732 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1943 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1441 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7058 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40 in November 2002
• Global: #274 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5461 in February 2015
• Global: #8859 in February 2015

There are 34 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	Armenian (hy) Մահ այրելով		96.6316
2	English (en) Death by burning		91.338
3	Greek (el) Εκτέλεση στην πυρά		55.4219
4	Swedish (sv) Bränning på bål		50.9285
5	French (fr) Bûcher		50.6763
6	Russian (ru) Сожжение		50.3268
7	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		45.3319
8	Esperanto (eo) Brulŝtiparo		39.0032
9	Hungarian (hu) Máglyahalál		38.2052
10	Portuguese (pt) Morte na fogueira		37.5689

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Death by burning		8 101 423
2	Japanese (ja) 火刑		1 555 155
3	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		1 180 914
4	Russian (ru) Сожжение		1 031 834
5	French (fr) Bûcher		627 831
6	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		528 724
7	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		479 620
8	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		384 752
9	Dutch (nl) Brandstapel		208 703
10	Chinese (zh) 火刑		200 696

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) Death by burning		30 892
2	Japanese (ja) 火刑		3 455
3	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		3 286
4	Russian (ru) Сожжение		2 953
5	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		1 572
6	French (fr) Bûcher		1 439
7	Persian (fa) زنده سوزاندن		988
8	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		963
9	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		904
10	Chinese (zh) 火刑		579

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Death by burning		732
2	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		170
3	French (fr) Bûcher		148
4	Russian (ru) Сожжение		120
5	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		94
6	Dutch (nl) Brandstapel		86
7	Japanese (ja) 火刑		63
8	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		57
9	Swedish (sv) Bränning på bål		50
10	Danish (da) Brænding på bål		42

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	Korean (ko) 화형		4
2	English (en) Death by burning		3
3	Czech (cs) Upálení na hranici		2
4	Greek (el) Εκτέλεση στην πυρά		1
5	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		1
6	Russian (ru) Сожжение		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thiêu sống		1
8	Arabic (ar) إعدام حرقا		0
9	Catalan (ca) Mort a la foguera		0
10	Danish (da) Brænding på bål		0

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

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