Pay it forward

Pay it forward - asking that a good turn be repaid by having it done to others. Article “Pay it forward” in English Wikipedia has 40.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Pay it forward” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pay it forward”, its content was written by 221 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 251 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 204 times in English Wikipedia and cited 234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17928 in December 2014
• Global: #39351 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3562 in August 2013
• Global: #11202 in August 2013

There are 5 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	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		45.9508
2	English (en) Pay it forward		40.7002
3	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		21.1954
4	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		15.0231
5	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		8.7446

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Pay it forward" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pay it forward		3 252 626
2	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		324 937
3	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		37 038
4	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		10 560
5	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		1 346

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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 "Pay it forward" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pay it forward		3 630
2	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		583
3	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		370
4	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		36
5	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		17

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pay it forward		221
2	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		15
3	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		7
4	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		6
5	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		2

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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 "Pay it forward" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pay it forward		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		0
3	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		0
4	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		0
5	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		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 "Pay it forward" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Pay it forward		204
2	Japanese (ja) 恩送り		16
3	Bulgarian (bg) Предай нататък		8
4	Hebrew (he) תעביר את זה הלאה		6
5	Chinese (zh) 向前支付		0

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Предай нататък
en	English Pay it forward
he	Hebrew תעביר את זה הלאה
ja	Japanese 恩送り
zh	Chinese 向前支付

Best Rank

English: #3562 08.2013

Global: #11202 08.2013

Best Rank

English: #17928 12.2014

Global: #39351 01.2025

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