Grade inflation

Grade inflation - the awarding of higher grades than students deserve, yielding a higher average grade. Article “Grade inflation” in English Wikipedia has 71.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 126 references and 21 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.

Since the creation of article “Grade inflation”, its content was written by 233 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 144 times in English Wikipedia and cited 174 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20130 in August 2005
• Global: #27538 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #69732 in December 2011
• Global: #121473 in December 2011

There are 10 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) Grade inflation		71.6542
2	German (de) Noteninflation		39.0327
3	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		25.3904
4	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		22.1008
5	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		19.7339
6	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		17.8796
7	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		14.6383
8	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		14.5559
9	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		13.2196
10	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		2.0033

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Grade inflation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grade inflation		1 176 872
2	German (de) Noteninflation		73 973
3	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		23 898
4	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		3 473
5	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		2 628
6	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		2 600
7	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		1 347
8	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		970
9	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		805
10	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		505

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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 "Grade inflation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grade inflation		2 594
2	German (de) Noteninflation		549
3	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		56
4	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		46
5	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		40
6	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		29
7	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		18
8	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		13
9	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		9
10	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Grade inflation		233
2	German (de) Noteninflation		33
3	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		8
4	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		8
5	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		5
6	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		4
7	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		4
8	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		3
9	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		1
10	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		1

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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 "Grade inflation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		0
2	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		0
3	German (de) Noteninflation		0
4	English (en) Grade inflation		0
5	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		0
6	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		0
7	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		0
8	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		0
9	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		0
10	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		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 "Grade inflation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Grade inflation		144
2	German (de) Noteninflation		10
3	Swedish (sv) Betygsinflation		7
4	Chinese (zh) 成績通脹		7
5	Arabic (ar) تضخم الدرجات		2
6	Korean (ko) 학점 인플레이션		2
7	Danish (da) Karakterinflation		1
8	Thai (th) เกรดเฟ้อ		1
9	Persian (fa) تورم نمره		0
10	Indonesian (id) Inflasi nilai		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تضخم الدرجات
da	Danish Karakterinflation
de	German Noteninflation
en	English Grade inflation
fa	Persian تورم نمره
id	Indonesian Inflasi nilai
ko	Korean 학점 인플레이션
sv	Swedish Betygsinflation
th	Thai เกรดเฟ้อ
zh	Chinese 成績通脹

Best Rank

English: #69732 12.2011

Global: #121473 12.2011

Best Rank

English: #20130 08.2005

Global: #27538 01.2003

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