Incest taboo

Incest taboo - A cultural aspect of human societies in which sexual activity with relatives is forbidden. Article “Incest taboo” in English Wikipedia has 46.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.13 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Incest taboo”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 338 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 479 times in English Wikipedia and cited 822 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #82 in June 2002
• Global: #140 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34709 in June 2008
• Global: #41939 in June 2008

There are 11 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	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		57.7591
2	English (en) Incest taboo		46.1927
3	Russian (ru) Запрет инцеста		38.5121
4	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		35.4574
5	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		27.2292
6	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		23.8651
7	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		18.2367
8	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		17.3856
9	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		12.1223
10	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		1.9675

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Incest taboo" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Incest taboo		2 872 620
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		898 674
3	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		271 066
4	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		229 860
5	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		115 220
6	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		94 292
7	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		59 077
8	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		20 326
9	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		12 448
10	Korean (ko) 근친상간 금기		1 512

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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 "Incest taboo" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Incest taboo		8 454
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		1 506
3	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		1 276
4	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		1 051
5	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		713
6	Russian (ru) Запрет инцеста		525
7	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		399
8	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		334
9	Korean (ko) 근친상간 금기		25
10	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Incest taboo		153
2	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		78
3	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		36
4	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		26
5	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		18
6	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		8
7	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		7
8	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		5
9	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		3
10	Russian (ru) Запрет инцеста		3

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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 "Incest taboo" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		2
2	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		1
3	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		1
4	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		1
5	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		0
6	English (en) Incest taboo		0
7	Korean (ko) 근친상간 금기		0
8	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		0
10	Russian (ru) Запрет инцеста		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 "Incest taboo" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Incest taboo		479
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		109
3	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		95
4	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		51
5	Korean (ko) 근친상간 금기		49
6	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		14
7	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		8
8	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		6
9	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		4
10	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تابو زنا المحارم
en	English Incest taboo
fa	Persian تابوی زنا با محارم
fr	French Tabou de l'inceste
it	Italian Tabù dell'incesto
ja	Japanese インセスト・タブー
ko	Korean 근친상간 금기
lt	Lithuanian Incesto tabu
pt	Portuguese Tabu do incesto
ru	Russian Запрет инцеста
zh	Chinese 亂倫禁忌

Best Rank

English: #34709 06.2008

Global: #41939 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #82 06.2002

Global: #140 06.2002

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