Mass comparison

Mass comparison - linguistic method developed by J. Greenberg to determine genetic relatedness between languages, now generally regarded as misleading. Article “Mass comparison” in English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.41 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 “Mass comparison”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 77 times in English Wikipedia and cited 176 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #27678 in June 2004
• Global: #66445 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #405244 in January 2008
• Global: #547842 in January 2008

There are 9 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) 大规模比较法		48.8644
2	English (en) Mass comparison		45.7413
3	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		13.4321
4	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		12.9537
5	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		11.597
6	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		2.8346
7	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		1.2271
8	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		0.3187
9	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		0.1504

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mass comparison" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mass comparison		124 228
2	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		18 715
3	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		6 944
4	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		4 255
5	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		3 424
6	Chinese (zh) 大规模比较法		1 225
7	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		989
8	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		883
9	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		41

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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 "Mass comparison" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mass comparison		1 089
2	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		45
3	Chinese (zh) 大规模比较法		35
4	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		22
5	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		15
6	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		15
7	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		13
8	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		6
9	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		3

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mass comparison		89
2	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		21
3	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		6
4	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		6
5	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		4
6	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		3
7	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		3
8	Chinese (zh) 大规模比较法		2
9	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		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 "Mass comparison" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		0
2	English (en) Mass comparison		0
3	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		0
4	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		0
5	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		0
6	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		0
7	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		0
8	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		0
9	Chinese (zh) 大规模比较法		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 "Mass comparison" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mass comparison		77
2	Japanese (ja) 多数量比較		48
3	Chinese (zh) 大规模比较法		19
4	German (de) Lexikalischer Massenvergleich		11
5	Spanish (es) Comparación masiva		7
6	Korean (ko) 대량 비교		5
7	Polish (pl) Masowa komparacja leksykalna		4
8	Swedish (sv) Lexikal massjämförelse		4
9	Lithuanian (lt) Masinio palyginimo metodas		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Lexikalischer Massenvergleich
en	English Mass comparison
es	Spanish Comparación masiva
ja	Japanese 多数量比較
ko	Korean 대량 비교
lt	Lithuanian Masinio palyginimo metodas
pl	Polish Masowa komparacja leksykalna
sv	Swedish Lexikal massjämförelse
zh	Chinese 大规模比较法

Best Rank

English: #405244 01.2008

Global: #547842 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #27678 06.2004

Global: #66445 06.2004

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