The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - book by Gustave Le Bon. This book is the 2341^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” in English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, its content was written by 28 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 315 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is on the 2341^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 207 times in English Wikipedia and cited 326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16278 in March 2022
• Global: #31723 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #82143 in February 2025
• Global: #52387 in April 2015

There are 12 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	Chinese (zh) 乌合之众：大众心理研究		34.3619
2	Swedish (sv) Massans psykologi		31.481
3	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		30.5494
4	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		29.6074
5	Croatian (hr) Psihologija gomila		27.567
6	Polish (pl) Psychologia tłumu (książka)		26.6998
7	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		26.552
8	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		20.1749
9	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		9.8256
10	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		8.8543

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		494 098
2	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		463 818
3	Russian (ru) Психология народов и масс (книга)		406 938
4	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		371 775
5	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		196 076
6	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		177 533
7	Chinese (zh) 乌合之众：大众心理研究		159 662
8	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		33 807
9	Ukrainian (uk) Психологія народів і мас		21 888
10	Swedish (sv) Massans psykologi		2 710

More...

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 "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		4 947
2	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		2 338
3	Chinese (zh) 乌合之众：大众心理研究		1 696
4	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		1 677
5	Russian (ru) Психология народов и масс (книга)		1 619
6	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		1 139
7	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		874
8	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		257
9	Polish (pl) Psychologia tłumu (książka)		177
10	Ukrainian (uk) Психологія народів і мас		104

More...

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

Language versions of the article "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		125
2	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		44
3	Russian (ru) Психология народов и масс (книга)		36
4	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		28
5	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		25
6	Chinese (zh) 乌合之众：大众心理研究		18
7	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		16
8	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		11
9	Ukrainian (uk) Психологія народів і мас		8
10	Polish (pl) Psychologia tłumu (książka)		2

More...

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

Language versions of the article "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		1
2	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		0
3	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		0
4	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		0
5	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		0
6	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		0
7	Croatian (hr) Psihologija gomila		0
8	Polish (pl) Psychologia tłumu (książka)		0
9	Russian (ru) Психология народов и масс (книга)		0
10	Swedish (sv) Massans psykologi		0

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind		207
2	French (fr) Psychologie des foules (livre)		23
3	German (de) Psychologie der Massen		20
4	Italian (it) Psicologia delle folle		16
5	Russian (ru) Психология народов и масс (книга)		14
6	Arabic (ar) سيكولوجية الجماهير		11
7	Chinese (zh) 乌合之众：大众心理研究		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Психологія народів і мас		8
9	Spanish (es) La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular		7
10	Swedish (sv) Massans psykologi		6

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سيكولوجية الجماهير
de	German Psychologie der Massen
en	English The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
es	Spanish La muchedumbre: un estudio de la mente popular
fr	French Psychologie des foules (livre)
hr	Croatian Psihologija gomila
it	Italian Psicologia delle folle
pl	Polish Psychologia tłumu (książka)
ru	Russian Психология народов и масс (книга)
sv	Swedish Massans psykologi
uk	Ukrainian Психологія народів і мас
zh	Chinese 乌合之众：大众心理研究

Best Rank

English: #82143 02.2025

Global: #52387 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #16278 03.2022

Global: #31723 03.2022

On 26 September 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Claudia Cardinale, One Battle After Another, ChatGPT, Alice in Borderland, Guinness, deaths in 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu, Assata Shakur, Charlie Kirk, Arthur Guinness.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Google Chrome, Assata Shakur, James Comey, Voddie Baucham, They Call Him OG, Wounded Knee Massacre, Deaths in 2025, Ryder Cup, House of Guinness, Snake Eyes (1998 film).

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information