Recursive acronym

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Recursive acronym

Quality:

Recursive acronym - acronym whose meaning refers to itself. Article “Recursive acronym” in English Wikipedia has 37.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 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 (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Recursive acronym” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Recursive acronym”, its content was written by 455 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 83 times in English Wikipedia and cited 585 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1856 in May 2003
  • Global: #2016 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #49359 in January 2008
  • Global: #37153 in January 2008

There are 29 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)
Recursive acronym
37.4863
2Basque (eu)
Akronimo errekurtsibo
34.9399
3Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Rekursivt akronym
33.1656
4Chinese (zh)
递归缩写
27.2935
5Galician (gl)
Acrónimo recursivo
26.5676
6Dutch (nl)
Recursief acroniem
25.756
7Catalan (ca)
Acrònim recursiu
25.7296
8Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
25.5796
9Thai (th)
คำย่อแบบเรียกซ้ำ
20.9964
10German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
18.3062
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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 "Recursive acronym" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Recursive acronym
1 720 556
2German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
292 877
3Russian (ru)
Рекурсивный акроним
264 252
4Japanese (ja)
再帰的頭字語
255 965
5French (fr)
Sigle récursif
174 571
6Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
166 712
7Polish (pl)
Akronim rekurencyjny
107 852
8Chinese (zh)
递归缩写
51 220
9Dutch (nl)
Recursief acroniem
48 232
10Portuguese (pt)
Acrônimo recursivo
47 533
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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 "Recursive acronym" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Recursive acronym
4 539
2Japanese (ja)
再帰的頭字語
757
3Russian (ru)
Рекурсивный акроним
698
4French (fr)
Sigle récursif
336
5German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
325
6Chinese (zh)
递归缩写
260
7Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
234
8Polish (pl)
Akronim rekurencyjny
114
9Czech (cs)
Rekurzivní zkratka
76
10Portuguese (pt)
Acrônimo recursivo
68
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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 "Recursive acronym" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Recursive acronym
455
2German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
145
3French (fr)
Sigle récursif
124
4Russian (ru)
Рекурсивный акроним
43
5Dutch (nl)
Recursief acroniem
39
6Japanese (ja)
再帰的頭字語
35
7Polish (pl)
Akronim rekurencyjny
34
8Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
33
9Danish (da)
Rekursivt akronym
28
10Chinese (zh)
递归缩写
26
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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 "Recursive acronym" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Recursive acronym
3
2Polish (pl)
Akronim rekurencyjny
1
3Russian (ru)
Рекурсивный акроним
1
4Bulgarian (bg)
Рекурсивен акроним
0
5Catalan (ca)
Acrònim recursiu
0
6Czech (cs)
Rekurzivní zkratka
0
7Danish (da)
Rekursivt akronym
0
8German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
0
9Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
0
10Estonian (et)
Rekursiivne lühend
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 "Recursive acronym" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Recursive acronym
83
2French (fr)
Sigle récursif
69
3German (de)
Rekursives Akronym
45
4Japanese (ja)
再帰的頭字語
44
5Swedish (sv)
Rekursiv akronym
43
6Russian (ru)
Рекурсивный акроним
33
7Chinese (zh)
递归缩写
28
8Spanish (es)
Acrónimo recursivo
26
9Indonesian (id)
Akronim rekursif
24
10Polish (pl)
Akronim rekurencyjny
20
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
bgBulgarian
Рекурсивен акроним
caCatalan
Acrònim recursiu
csCzech
Rekurzivní zkratka
daDanish
Rekursivt akronym
deGerman
Rekursives Akronym
enEnglish
Recursive acronym
esSpanish
Acrónimo recursivo
etEstonian
Rekursiivne lühend
euBasque
Akronimo errekurtsibo
faPersian
کوته‌نوشت بازگشتی
fiFinnish
Rekursiivinen akronyymi
frFrench
Sigle récursif
glGalician
Acrónimo recursivo
idIndonesian
Akronim rekursif
jaJapanese
再帰的頭字語
koKorean
재귀 약자
msMalay
Akronim berulang
nlDutch
Recursief acroniem
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Rekursivt akronym
noNorwegian
Rekursivt akronym
plPolish
Akronim rekurencyjny
ptPortuguese
Acrônimo recursivo
ruRussian
Рекурсивный акроним
slSlovenian
Rekurzivni retroakronim
srSerbian
Рекурзивна скраћеница
svSwedish
Rekursiv akronym
thThai
คำย่อแบบเรียกซ้ำ
ukUkrainian
Рекурсивний акронім
zhChinese
递归缩写

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#49359
01.2008
Global:
#37153
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1856
05.2003
Global:
#2016
01.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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