Reification (fallacy)

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Reification (fallacy)

Quality:

Reification - fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing. Article "Reification (fallacy)" in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Reification (fallacy)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Reification (fallacy)", its content was written by 164 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 255 times in English Wikipedia and cited 846 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #22366 in April 2007
  • Global: #25378 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #64368 in June 2020
  • Global: #123048 in June 2020

There are 14 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
1Ukrainian (uk)
Реіфікація (помилка)
32.2381
2English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
31.4169
3Portuguese (pt)
Reificação (falácia)
31.0831
4Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
25.6742
5German (de)
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
24.399
6Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
24.2436
7Arabic (ar)
مغالطة التجسيم
23.4476
8Persian (fa)
شی‌انگاری (مغالطه)
21.5401
9Kazakh (kk)
Гипостаздау
21.0187
10Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
18.7925
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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 "Reification (fallacy)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
1 326 421
2Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
45 775
3Finnish (fi)
Esineellistäminen
27 134
4Chinese (zh)
具體化謬誤
16 577
5Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
16 138
6Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
12 692
7Romanian (ro)
Reificare (eroare logică)
12 625
8German (de)
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
11 246
9Arabic (ar)
مغالطة التجسيم
4 308
10Serbian (sr)
Реификација (логичка грешка)
1 869
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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 "Reification (fallacy)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
5 302
2Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
448
3Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
156
4Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
103
5Chinese (zh)
具體化謬誤
81
6German (de)
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
75
7Portuguese (pt)
Reificação (falácia)
61
8Finnish (fi)
Esineellistäminen
46
9Romanian (ro)
Reificare (eroare logică)
37
10Serbian (sr)
Реификација (логичка грешка)
26
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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 "Reification (fallacy)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
164
2Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
13
3Finnish (fi)
Esineellistäminen
13
4German (de)
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
12
5Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
8
6Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
7
7Chinese (zh)
具體化謬誤
7
8Romanian (ro)
Reificare (eroare logică)
5
9Serbian (sr)
Реификација (логичка грешка)
5
10Arabic (ar)
مغالطة التجسيم
4
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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 "Reification (fallacy)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
1
2Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
1
3Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
1
4Ukrainian (uk)
Реіфікація (помилка)
1
5Arabic (ar)
مغالطة التجسيم
0
6German (de)
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
0
7Persian (fa)
شی‌انگاری (مغالطه)
0
8Finnish (fi)
Esineellistäminen
0
9Kazakh (kk)
Гипостаздау
0
10Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
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 "Reification (fallacy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Reification (fallacy)
255
2Chinese (zh)
具體化謬誤
182
3Arabic (ar)
مغالطة التجسيم
147
4Ukrainian (uk)
Реіфікація (помилка)
127
5Persian (fa)
شی‌انگاری (مغالطه)
75
6Spanish (es)
Falacia de reificación
13
7Dutch (nl)
Reïficatie
12
8Russian (ru)
Гипостазирование
12
9Finnish (fi)
Esineellistäminen
7
10Romanian (ro)
Reificare (eroare logică)
7
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مغالطة التجسيم
deGerman
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
enEnglish
Reification (fallacy)
esSpanish
Falacia de reificación
faPersian
شی‌انگاری (مغالطه)
fiFinnish
Esineellistäminen
kkKazakh
Гипостаздау
nlDutch
Reïficatie
ptPortuguese
Reificação (falácia)
roRomanian
Reificare (eroare logică)
ruRussian
Гипостазирование
srSerbian
Реификација (логичка грешка)
ukUkrainian
Реіфікація (помилка)
zhChinese
具體化謬誤

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#64368
06.2020
Global:
#123048
06.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22366
04.2007
Global:
#25378
02.2002

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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