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 46.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 58 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.16 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 316 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 458 times in English Wikipedia and cited 756 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #81 in June 2002
• Global: #140 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34419 in June 2008
• Global: #41830 in June 2008

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	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		57.8253
2	English (en) Incest taboo		46.4277
3	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		39.6847
4	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		27.3547
5	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		24.4492
6	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		18.5148
7	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		15.5169
8	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		12.0778
9	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		1.9675
10	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		1.3192

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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		2 755 313
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		870 650
3	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		264 522
4	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		224 368
5	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		99 375
6	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		72 525
7	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		54 711
8	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		20 131
9	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		5 545
10	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		978

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Incest taboo		11 774
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		2 639
3	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		1 760
4	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		754
5	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		536
6	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		432
7	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		383
8	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		272
9	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		50
10	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		47

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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		74
3	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		35
4	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		25
5	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		8
6	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		7
7	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		7
8	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		5
9	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		2
10	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		0

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		0
2	English (en) Incest taboo		0
3	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		0
4	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		0
5	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		0
6	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		0
7	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		0
8	Lithuanian (lt) Incesto tabu		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		0
10	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		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		458
2	Japanese (ja) インセスト・タブー		118
3	French (fr) Tabou de l'inceste		95
4	Chinese (zh) 亂倫禁忌		46
5	Portuguese (pt) Tabu do incesto		11
6	Arabic (ar) تابو زنا المحارم		8
7	Italian (it) Tabù dell'incesto		7
8	Persian (fa) تابوی زنا با محارم		5
9	Korean (ko) 근친간금기		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 근친간금기
lt	Lithuanian Incesto tabu
pt	Portuguese Tabu do incesto
zh	Chinese 亂倫禁忌

Best Rank

English: #34419 06.2008

Global: #41830 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #81 06.2002

Global: #140 06.2002

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