Scapegoating

Scapegoating - practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat. Article “Scapegoating” in English Wikipedia has 40.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 12 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 2026 the article “Scapegoating” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Scapegoating”, its content was written by 360 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1142 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2836 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5312 in April 2004
• Global: #13752 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31147 in October 2010
• Global: #36069 in October 2011

There are 16 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, 2026 (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	English (en) Scapegoating		40.2139
2	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		38.2256
3	Polish (pl) Kozioł ofiarny		27.6251
4	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		23.9186
5	Czech (cs) Hledání obětního beránka		21.4227
6	Azerbaijani (az) Günah keçisi		19.368
7	Romanian (ro) Țapi ispășitori		18.7379
8	Japanese (ja) スケープゴート		16.7772
9	Danish (da) Syndebuk		12.0264
10	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		10.3616

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Scapegoating" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scapegoating		2 482 316
2	Japanese (ja) スケープゴート		1 986 868
3	Polish (pl) Kozioł ofiarny		292 982
4	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		56 912
5	Danish (da) Syndebuk		14 128
6	Croatian (hr) Žrtveni jarac		13 776
7	Hungarian (hu) Bűnbakképzés		13 626
8	Hindi (hi) बलि का बकरा		12 260
9	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		10 275
10	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		9 871

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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 "Scapegoating" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scapegoating		6 788
2	Japanese (ja) スケープゴート		4 178
3	Polish (pl) Kozioł ofiarny		598
4	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		111
5	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		66
6	Persian (fa) فرافکنی تقصیر		41
7	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		30
8	Danish (da) Syndebuk		29
9	Croatian (hr) Žrtveni jarac		23
10	Hungarian (hu) Bűnbakképzés		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scapegoating		360
2	Polish (pl) Kozioł ofiarny		53
3	Japanese (ja) スケープゴート		49
4	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		29
5	Croatian (hr) Žrtveni jarac		20
6	Hindi (hi) बलि का बकरा		14
7	Hungarian (hu) Bűnbakképzés		14
8	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		13
9	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		11
10	Danish (da) Syndebuk		9

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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 "Scapegoating" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scapegoating		4
2	Persian (fa) فرافکنی تقصیر		1
3	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		1
4	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Günah keçisi		0
6	Czech (cs) Hledání obětního beránka		0
7	Danish (da) Syndebuk		0
8	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		0
9	Hindi (hi) बलि का बकरा		0
10	Croatian (hr) Žrtveni jarac		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 "Scapegoating" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Scapegoating		1 142
2	Persian (fa) فرافکنی تقصیر		634
3	Serbian (sr) Жртвени јарац		447
4	Japanese (ja) スケープゴート		222
5	Hebrew (he) שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)		208
6	Polish (pl) Kozioł ofiarny		50
7	Indonesian (id) Mengambinghitamkan		40
8	Korean (ko) 희생양삼기		32
9	Danish (da) Syndebuk		23
10	Croatian (hr) Žrtveni jarac		19

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Günah keçisi
cs	Czech Hledání obětního beránka
da	Danish Syndebuk
en	English Scapegoating
fa	Persian فرافکنی تقصیر
he	Hebrew שעיר לעזאזל (חברה)
hi	Hindi बलि का बकरा
hr	Croatian Žrtveni jarac
hu	Hungarian Bűnbakképzés
id	Indonesian Mengambinghitamkan
ja	Japanese スケープゴート
ko	Korean 희생양삼기
pl	Polish Kozioł ofiarny
ro	Romanian Țapi ispășitori
sh	Serbo-Croatian Žrtveni jarac
sr	Serbian Жртвени јарац

Best Rank

English: #31147 10.2010

Global: #36069 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #5312 04.2004

Global: #13752 10.2003

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