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Reference counting

Quality:

Reference counting - sorftware resource tracking technique. Article "Reference counting" in English Wikipedia has 45.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 25 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 "Reference counting", its content was written by 142 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 289 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 132 times in English Wikipedia and cited 389 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2901 in January 2002
  • Global: #3164 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #127861 in March 2013
  • Global: #185299 in March 2013

There are 13 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)
Reference counting
45.3168
2Polish (pl)
Zliczanie referencji
22.9849
3Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
17.0404
4German (de)
Referenzzählung
16.8708
5Finnish (fi)
Viitelaskenta
16.6468
6Chinese (zh)
引用计数
15.0873
7Ukrainian (uk)
Підрахунок посилань
9.5728
8Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
6.0146
9Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
5.5772
10Russian (ru)
Подсчёт ссылок
5.1047
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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 "Reference counting" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reference counting
835 554
2Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
95 999
3German (de)
Referenzzählung
40 485
4Russian (ru)
Подсчёт ссылок
38 505
5Chinese (zh)
引用计数
25 071
6Spanish (es)
Conteo de referencias
22 731
7Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
19 317
8Polish (pl)
Zliczanie referencji
18 547
9Italian (it)
Reference counting
9 626
10Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
8 687
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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 "Reference counting" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reference counting
2 231
2Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
151
3Russian (ru)
Подсчёт ссылок
70
4Chinese (zh)
引用计数
65
5German (de)
Referenzzählung
53
6Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
37
7Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
36
8Spanish (es)
Conteo de referencias
18
9Italian (it)
Reference counting
17
10Norwegian (no)
Referansetelling
13
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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 "Reference counting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reference counting
142
2German (de)
Referenzzählung
35
3Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
23
4Italian (it)
Reference counting
18
5Russian (ru)
Подсчёт ссылок
15
6Chinese (zh)
引用计数
12
7Polish (pl)
Zliczanie referencji
11
8Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
9
9Spanish (es)
Conteo de referencias
8
10Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
7
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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 "Reference counting" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Referenzzählung
0
2English (en)
Reference counting
0
3Spanish (es)
Conteo de referencias
0
4Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
0
5Finnish (fi)
Viitelaskenta
0
6Italian (it)
Reference counting
0
7Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
0
8Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
0
9Norwegian (no)
Referansetelling
0
10Polish (pl)
Zliczanie referencji
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 "Reference counting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Reference counting
132
2Chinese (zh)
引用计数
55
3Japanese (ja)
参照カウント
42
4Korean (ko)
참조 횟수 계산 방식
37
5Persian (fa)
شمارش ارجاع
36
6German (de)
Referenzzählung
24
7Russian (ru)
Подсчёт ссылок
17
8Spanish (es)
Conteo de referencias
15
9Ukrainian (uk)
Підрахунок посилань
9
10Italian (it)
Reference counting
8
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Referenzzählung
enEnglish
Reference counting
esSpanish
Conteo de referencias
faPersian
شمارش ارجاع
fiFinnish
Viitelaskenta
itItalian
Reference counting
jaJapanese
参照カウント
koKorean
참조 횟수 계산 방식
noNorwegian
Referansetelling
plPolish
Zliczanie referencji
ruRussian
Подсчёт ссылок
ukUkrainian
Підрахунок посилань
zhChinese
引用计数

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#127861
03.2013
Global:
#185299
03.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2901
01.2002
Global:
#3164
01.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Reference counting from Wikipedia articles about Garbage collection, Rust, Python, Tracing garbage collection and Automatic Reference Counting. Whereas reading the article about Reference counting people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Tracing garbage collection, Garbage collection, Weak reference, Squirrel and Smart pointer.

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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