Mutual exclusion

Mutual exclusion - property of concurrency control, which is instituted for the purpose of preventing race conditions. Article "Mutual exclusion" in English Wikipedia has 36.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Mutual exclusion", its content was written by 145 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 535 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 99 times in English Wikipedia and cited 880 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5263 in March 2003
• Global: #10075 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48065 in October 2013
• Global: #45109 in November 2009

There are 20 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	English (en) Mutual exclusion		36.1531
2	Ukrainian (uk) М'ютекс		22.6096
3	German (de) Mutex		20.5692
4	Chinese (zh) 互斥锁		16.4617
5	Japanese (ja) 排他制御		16.3768
6	Greek (el) Αμοιβαίος αποκλεισμός (υπολογιστές)		14.8038
7	Hebrew (he) מניעה הדדית		13.3387
8	Persian (fa) انحصار متقابل		11.3661
9	Polish (pl) Problem wzajemnego wykluczania		11.1857
10	Serbian (sr) Мутекс		8.5719

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mutual exclusion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mutual exclusion		2 464 126
2	German (de) Mutex		502 917
3	Japanese (ja) 排他制御		492 867
4	Spanish (es) Exclusión mutua (informática)		315 723
5	French (fr) Exclusion mutuelle		248 792
6	Chinese (zh) 互斥锁		186 393
7	Portuguese (pt) Exclusão mútua		166 954
8	Polish (pl) Problem wzajemnego wykluczania		166 895
9	Italian (it) Mutex		113 128
10	Korean (ko) 상호 배제		53 690

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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 "Mutual exclusion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mutual exclusion		2 799
2	Japanese (ja) 排他制御		648
3	German (de) Mutex		531
4	French (fr) Exclusion mutuelle		382
5	Chinese (zh) 互斥锁		369
6	Polish (pl) Problem wzajemnego wykluczania		226
7	Spanish (es) Exclusión mutua (informática)		193
8	Portuguese (pt) Exclusão mútua		105
9	Italian (it) Mutex		103
10	Korean (ko) 상호 배제		99

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mutual exclusion		145
2	German (de) Mutex		89
3	French (fr) Exclusion mutuelle		57
4	Italian (it) Mutex		35
5	Polish (pl) Problem wzajemnego wykluczania		34
6	Hebrew (he) מניעה הדדית		25
7	Japanese (ja) 排他制御		24
8	Dutch (nl) Wederzijdse uitsluiting		18
9	Spanish (es) Exclusión mutua (informática)		17
10	Chinese (zh) 互斥锁		15

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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 "Mutual exclusion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) استبعاد التشارك		0
2	Catalan (ca) Exclusió mútua		0
3	Czech (cs) Vzájemné vyloučení		0
4	German (de) Mutex		0
5	Greek (el) Αμοιβαίος αποκλεισμός (υπολογιστές)		0
6	English (en) Mutual exclusion		0
7	Spanish (es) Exclusión mutua (informática)		0
8	Basque (eu) Elkar-bazterketa		0
9	Persian (fa) انحصار متقابل		0
10	French (fr) Exclusion mutuelle		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 "Mutual exclusion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) М'ютекс		255
2	English (en) Mutual exclusion		99
3	Japanese (ja) 排他制御		75
4	French (fr) Exclusion mutuelle		65
5	Persian (fa) انحصار متقابل		64
6	German (de) Mutex		47
7	Italian (it) Mutex		44
8	Chinese (zh) 互斥锁		36
9	Spanish (es) Exclusión mutua (informática)		33
10	Polish (pl) Problem wzajemnego wykluczania		28

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استبعاد التشارك
ca	Catalan Exclusió mútua
cs	Czech Vzájemné vyloučení
de	German Mutex
el	Greek Αμοιβαίος αποκλεισμός (υπολογιστές)
en	English Mutual exclusion
es	Spanish Exclusión mutua (informática)
eu	Basque Elkar-bazterketa
fa	Persian انحصار متقابل
fr	French Exclusion mutuelle
he	Hebrew מניעה הדדית
it	Italian Mutex
ja	Japanese 排他制御
ko	Korean 상호 배제
nl	Dutch Wederzijdse uitsluiting
pl	Polish Problem wzajemnego wykluczania
pt	Portuguese Exclusão mútua
sr	Serbian Мутекс
uk	Ukrainian М'ютекс
zh	Chinese 互斥锁

Best Rank

English: #48065 10.2013

Global: #45109 11.2009

Best Rank

English: #5263 03.2003

Global: #10075 03.2003

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