Rat race

Rat race - metaphor referring to an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. Article “Rat race” in French Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.1 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Rat race”, its content was written by 25 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 332 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in French Wikipedia and cited 212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #16575 in August 2022
• Global: #22585 in February 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #37469 in January 2019
• Global: #64121 in July 2013

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, 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	Estonian (et) Oravaratas		39.6885
2	English (en) Rat race		25.7015
3	French (fr) Rat race		20.8654
4	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		20.7205
5	Italian (it) Corsa del topo		15.8081
6	Czech (cs) Krysí závod		15.3743
7	Arabic (ar) سباق الجرذان		14.128
8	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		10.2061
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrida dos ratos		7.183
10	Hebrew (he) מרוץ עכברים		5.2105

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rat race		1 834 625
2	Japanese (ja) ラットレース		213 574
3	Polish (pl) Wyścig szczurów		200 836
4	French (fr) Rat race		152 606
5	Portuguese (pt) Corrida dos ratos		126 582
6	Dutch (nl) Ratrace (begrip)		69 025
7	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		65 420
8	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		64 241
9	Hebrew (he) מרוץ עכברים		10 439
10	Czech (cs) Krysí závod		7 686

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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 "Rat race" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rat race		6 788
2	Japanese (ja) ラットレース		562
3	French (fr) Rat race		554
4	Portuguese (pt) Corrida dos ratos		417
5	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		248
6	Polish (pl) Wyścig szczurów		202
7	Czech (cs) Krysí závod		159
8	Arabic (ar) سباق الجرذان		149
9	Italian (it) Corsa del topo		146
10	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		138

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rat race		188
2	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		26
3	French (fr) Rat race		25
4	Polish (pl) Wyścig szczurów		18
5	Hebrew (he) מרוץ עכברים		13
6	Dutch (nl) Ratrace (begrip)		11
7	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		9
8	Arabic (ar) سباق الجرذان		7
9	Italian (it) Corsa del topo		7
10	Japanese (ja) ラットレース		7

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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 "Rat race" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rat race		1
2	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		1
3	Arabic (ar) سباق الجرذان		0
4	Czech (cs) Krysí závod		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Vetkuro rata		0
6	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		0
7	Estonian (et) Oravaratas		0
8	Persian (fa) سگ‌دو		0
9	French (fr) Rat race		0
10	Hebrew (he) מרוץ עכברים		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 "Rat race" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rat race		146
2	Finnish (fi) Oravanpyörä		11
3	French (fr) Rat race		11
4	Japanese (ja) ラットレース		7
5	Hebrew (he) מרוץ עכברים		6
6	Dutch (nl) Ratrace (begrip)		6
7	Polish (pl) Wyścig szczurów		6
8	Arabic (ar) سباق الجرذان		4
9	Spanish (es) Carrera de la rata		4
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrida dos ratos		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سباق الجرذان
cs	Czech Krysí závod
en	English Rat race
eo	Esperanto Vetkuro rata
es	Spanish Carrera de la rata
et	Estonian Oravaratas
fa	Persian سگ‌دو
fi	Finnish Oravanpyörä
fr	French Rat race
he	Hebrew מרוץ עכברים
id	Indonesian Perlombaan tikus
it	Italian Corsa del topo
ja	Japanese ラットレース
nl	Dutch Ratrace (begrip)
pl	Polish Wyścig szczurów
pt	Portuguese Corrida dos ratos

Best Rank

French: #37469 01.2019

Global: #64121 07.2013

Best Rank

French: #16575 08.2022

Global: #22585 02.2025

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