Penn State child sex abuse scandal

Quality:

Penn State child sex abuse scandal - concerned allegations and subsequent convictions of child sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky. Article “Penn State child sex abuse scandal” in English Wikipedia has 86.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 357 references and 22 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Penn State child sex abuse scandal” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Penn State child sex abuse scandal”, its content was written by 429 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 463 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 486 times in English Wikipedia and cited 511 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #35 in November 2011
• Global: #1170 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #183 in November 2011
• Global: #900 in November 2011

There are 4 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) Penn State child sex abuse scandal		86.8005
2	French (fr) Scandale des agressions sexuelles de l'université d'État de Pennsylvanie		17.1515
3	Chinese (zh) 賓州州立大學性侵兒童醜聞		16.7541
4	Indonesian (id) Skandal pelecehan seksual terhadap anak Jerry Sandusky		7.5083

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penn State child sex abuse scandal		5 701 129
2	French (fr) Scandale des agressions sexuelles de l'université d'État de Pennsylvanie		30 474
3	Indonesian (id) Skandal pelecehan seksual terhadap anak Jerry Sandusky		4 825
4	Chinese (zh) 賓州州立大學性侵兒童醜聞		4 313

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penn State child sex abuse scandal		18 420
2	French (fr) Scandale des agressions sexuelles de l'université d'État de Pennsylvanie		130
3	Chinese (zh) 賓州州立大學性侵兒童醜聞		59
4	Indonesian (id) Skandal pelecehan seksual terhadap anak Jerry Sandusky		11

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penn State child sex abuse scandal		429
2	French (fr) Scandale des agressions sexuelles de l'université d'État de Pennsylvanie		27
3	Indonesian (id) Skandal pelecehan seksual terhadap anak Jerry Sandusky		4
4	Chinese (zh) 賓州州立大學性侵兒童醜聞		3

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penn State child sex abuse scandal		2
2	French (fr) Scandale des agressions sexuelles de l'université d'État de Pennsylvanie		0
3	Indonesian (id) Skandal pelecehan seksual terhadap anak Jerry Sandusky		0
4	Chinese (zh) 賓州州立大學性侵兒童醜聞		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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