Recursive data type

Recursive data type - data type that refers to itself in its definition. Article “Recursive data type” in English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.08 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Recursive data type”, its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 131 times in English Wikipedia and cited 599 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #78529 in July 2005
• Global: #157938 in May 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #360658 in March 2015
• Global: #371389 in January 2015

There are 8 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	French (fr) Type récursif		19.3865
2	English (en) Recursive data type		18.7624
3	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		17.8052
4	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		12.3454
5	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		10.7953
6	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		2.7494
7	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		2.1392
8	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		1.9765

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Recursive data type" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recursive data type		271 430
2	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		26 883
3	French (fr) Type récursif		24 065
4	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		10 172
5	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		6 495
6	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		1 326
7	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		508
8	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		87

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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 "Recursive data type" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recursive data type		1 205
2	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		86
3	French (fr) Type récursif		74
4	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		65
5	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		21
6	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		12
7	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		11
8	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		3

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Recursive data type		48
2	French (fr) Type récursif		23
3	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		11
4	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		10
5	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		5
6	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		4
7	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		3
8	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		0

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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 "Recursive data type" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		2
2	English (en) Recursive data type		0
3	French (fr) Type récursif		0
4	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		0
5	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		0
8	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		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 "Recursive data type" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 递归数据类型		144
2	French (fr) Type récursif		137
3	English (en) Recursive data type		131
4	Japanese (ja) 再帰データ型		64
5	Ukrainian (uk) Рекурсивний тип даних		61
6	Korean (ko) 재귀 자료형		52
7	Portuguese (pt) Tipo recursivo		8
8	Hungarian (hu) Rekurzív adattípus		2

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#	Language	Value
en	English Recursive data type
fr	French Type récursif
hu	Hungarian Rekurzív adattípus
ja	Japanese 再帰データ型
ko	Korean 재귀 자료형
pt	Portuguese Tipo recursivo
uk	Ukrainian Рекурсивний тип даних
zh	Chinese 递归数据类型

Best Rank

English: #360658 03.2015

Global: #371389 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #78529 07.2005

Global: #157938 05.2009

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