Preferential attachment

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Preferential attachment

Quality:

Preferential attachment - stochastic process formalizing cumulative advantage. Article "Preferential attachment" in English Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 4 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 "Preferential attachment", its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 89 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 129 times in English Wikipedia and cited 158 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #61618 in April 2025
  • Global: #132659 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #234435 in September 2016
  • Global: #391671 in September 2016

There are 6 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
31.5205
2Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
27.9406
3Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
25.8126
4Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
18.2329
5Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
16.1977
6Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
8.6852
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Preferential attachment" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
386 783
2Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
20 686
3Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
1 744
4Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
1 043
5Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
918
6Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
673
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Preferential attachment" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
1 808
2Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
22
3Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
13
4Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
13
5Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
10
6Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Preferential attachment" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
48
2Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
11
3Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
11
4Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
7
5Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
6
6Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Preferential attachment" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
0
2Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
0
3Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
0
4Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
0
5Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
0
6Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Preferential attachment" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Preferential attachment
129
2Spanish (es)
Conexión preferencial
9
3Persian (fa)
اتصال ترجیحی
9
4Ukrainian (uk)
Переважне приєднання
7
5Hebrew (he)
מודל העדפה קישורי
3
6Portuguese (pt)
Conexão preferencial
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Preferential attachment
esSpanish
Conexión preferencial
faPersian
اتصال ترجیحی
heHebrew
מודל העדפה קישורי
ptPortuguese
Conexão preferencial
ukUkrainian
Переважне приєднання

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#234435
09.2016
Global:
#391671
09.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#61618
04.2025
Global:
#132659
04.2017

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Preferential attachment from Wikipedia articles about Matthew effect, Herbert Simon, Barabási–Albert model, Scale-free network and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. Whereas reading the article about Preferential attachment people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Matthew effect, Gibrats law, The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, Power law and Barabási–Albert model.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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