Zero-sum thinking

Zero-sum thinking - cognitive bias of assuming the situation is a zero-sum game. Article “Zero-sum thinking” in English Wikipedia has 37.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Zero-sum thinking” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Zero-sum thinking”, its content was written by 52 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 76 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in English Wikipedia and cited 45 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7553 in September 2004
• Global: #31025 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #182138 in January 2022
• Global: #223384 in July 2020

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	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		40.4909
2	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		37.9062
3	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		33.5761
4	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		32.3173
5	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		28.3387
6	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		24.7307
7	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		19.8354
8	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		3.3572

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Zero-sum thinking" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		532 326
2	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		92 500
3	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		30 678
4	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		8 710
5	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		2 921
6	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		582
7	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		361
8	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		41

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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 "Zero-sum thinking" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		3 601
2	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		734
3	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		243
4	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		135
5	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		108
6	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		43
7	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		41
8	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		20

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		52
2	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		13
3	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		4
4	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		3
5	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		2
6	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		1
7	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		1
8	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		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 "Zero-sum thinking" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		2
2	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		1
3	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		1
4	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		0
5	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		0
6	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		0
7	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		0
8	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		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 "Zero-sum thinking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Zero-sum thinking		28
2	Arabic (ar) التفكير الصفري		5
3	Japanese (ja) ゼロサム思考		4
4	French (fr) Pensée à somme nulle		2
5	Swedish (sv) Nollsummetänkande		2
6	Chinese (zh) 零和思維		2
7	Armenian (hy) Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն		1
8	Korean (ko) 제로섬 사고		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التفكير الصفري
en	English Zero-sum thinking
fr	French Pensée à somme nulle
hy	Armenian Զրոյական գումարով մտածողություն
ja	Japanese ゼロサム思考
ko	Korean 제로섬 사고
sv	Swedish Nollsummetänkande
zh	Chinese 零和思維

Best Rank

English: #182138 01.2022

Global: #223384 07.2020

Best Rank

English: #7553 09.2004

Global: #31025 09.2004

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