Identity theft

Quality:

Identity theft - deliberate use of someone else's identity, usually as a method to gain a financial advantage or obtain credit and other benefits in the other person's name, and perhaps to the other person's disadvantage or loss. Article “Identity theft” in English Wikipedia has 58.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 95 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.54 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Identity theft” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Identity theft”, its content was written by 937 registered users of English Wikipedia (8048^th place) and edited by 1780 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1017 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2506 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2234 in September 2014
• Global: #5902 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5834 in February 2013
• Global: #12803 in February 2013

There are 37 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	English (en) Identity theft		58.1591
2	Japanese (ja) なりすまし		51.2063
3	German (de) Identitätsmissbrauch		50.5695
4	Italian (it) Furto d'identità		40.953
5	Hebrew (he) גנבת זהות		35.1454
6	Dutch (nl) Identiteitsfraude		34.5503
7	Indonesian (id) Pencurian identitas		34.3716
8	French (fr) Usurpation d'identité		28.5394
9	Swedish (sv) Identitetsstöld		26.5191
10	Slovenian (sl) Kraja identitete		26.1721

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Identity theft		5 263 955
2	French (fr) Usurpation d'identité		990 482
3	Spanish (es) Robo de identidad		644 487
4	German (de) Identitätsmissbrauch		504 208
5	Japanese (ja) なりすまし		222 835
6	Italian (it) Furto d'identità		124 301
7	Dutch (nl) Identiteitsfraude		103 866
8	Russian (ru) Кража личности		100 966
9	Finnish (fi) Identiteettivarkaus		92 832
10	Polish (pl) Kradzież tożsamości		69 253

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) Identity theft		5 184
2	Japanese (ja) なりすまし		2 290
3	German (de) Identitätsmissbrauch		1 054
4	French (fr) Usurpation d'identité		528
5	Spanish (es) Robo de identidad		503
6	Russian (ru) Кража личности		299
7	Chinese (zh) 身份盗窃		153
8	Finnish (fi) Identiteettivarkaus		94
9	Italian (it) Furto d'identità		93
10	Estonian (et) Identiteedivargus		70

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Identity theft		937
2	German (de) Identitätsmissbrauch		152
3	French (fr) Usurpation d'identité		130
4	Dutch (nl) Identiteitsfraude		73
5	Spanish (es) Robo de identidad		49
6	Italian (it) Furto d'identità		40
7	Japanese (ja) なりすまし		36
8	Russian (ru) Кража личности		34
9	Finnish (fi) Identiteettivarkaus		32
10	Indonesian (id) Pencurian identitas		29

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) Identity theft		4
2	German (de) Identitätsmissbrauch		2
3	Spanish (es) Robo de identidad		1
4	Estonian (et) Identiteedivargus		1
5	Persian (fa) سرقت هویت		1
6	Romanian (ro) Furt de identitate		1
7	Arabic (ar) سرقة الهوية		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кражба на самоличност		0
9	Catalan (ca) Robatori d'identitat		0
10	Czech (cs) Krádež identity		0

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

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