Hot hand

Hot-hand fallacy - purported phenomenon that a person who experiences a successful outcome has a greater chance of success in further attempts. Article “Hot hand” in English Wikipedia has 47.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 12 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Hot hand” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hot hand”, its content was written by 98 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 145 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in English Wikipedia and cited 271 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15780 in April 2012
• Global: #60459 in October 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52384 in October 2017
• Global: #91668 in October 2017

There are 8 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	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		48.5588
2	English (en) Hot hand		47.3559
3	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		40.4444
4	Persian (fa) دست خوب		22.7516
5	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		21.0996
6	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		14.6994
7	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		14.2806
8	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		11.5452

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hot hand" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hot hand		602 296
2	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		48 371
3	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		44 633
4	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		34 160
5	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		13 313
6	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		1 239
7	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		837
8	Persian (fa) دست خوب		571

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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 "Hot hand" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hot hand		2 784
2	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		258
3	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		158
4	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		121
5	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		33
6	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		31
7	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		12
8	Persian (fa) دست خوب		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 "Hot hand" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hot hand		98
2	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		25
3	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		9
4	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		5
5	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		3
6	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		3
7	Persian (fa) دست خوب		1
8	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		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 "Hot hand" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hot hand		1
2	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		0
3	Persian (fa) دست خوب		0
4	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		0
5	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		0
6	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		0
8	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		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 "Hot hand" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 熱手謬誤		226
2	English (en) Hot hand		25
3	Japanese (ja) ホットハンドの誤謬		9
4	German (de) Hot-Hand-Phänomen		5
5	Ukrainian (uk) Омана «куй поки гаряче»		3
6	Finnish (fi) Kuumien käsien harha		2
7	Korean (ko) 뜨거운 손 현상		1
8	Persian (fa) دست خوب		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Hot-Hand-Phänomen
en	English Hot hand
fa	Persian دست خوب
fi	Finnish Kuumien käsien harha
ja	Japanese ホットハンドの誤謬
ko	Korean 뜨거운 손 현상
uk	Ukrainian Омана «куй поки гаряче»
zh	Chinese 熱手謬誤

Best Rank

English: #52384 10.2017

Global: #91668 10.2017

Best Rank

English: #15780 04.2012

Global: #60459 10.2015

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