Geofagia

Geophagy - practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk. Article “Geofagia” in Italian Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 53 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Geofagia”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 567 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 966 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #7745 in February 2022
• Global: #525 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #45303 in January 2024
• Global: #95327 in August 2015

There are 22 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	English (en) Geophagia		81.6501
2	Greek (el) Γεωφαγία		63.533
3	German (de) Erdeessen		55.2445
4	Italian (it) Geofagia		44.1174
5	Ukrainian (uk) Геофагія		43.8596
6	Dutch (nl) Geofagie		43.4676
7	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		40.3204
8	Portuguese (pt) Geofagia		32.6031
9	French (fr) Géophagie		31.7588
10	Spanish (es) Geofagia		30.3049

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Geophagia		1 366 840
2	Japanese (ja) 土 (食材)		304 093
3	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		160 029
4	Spanish (es) Geofagia		158 837
5	German (de) Erdeessen		149 101
6	Russian (ru) Геофагия		107 763
7	French (fr) Géophagie		101 061
8	Portuguese (pt) Geofagia		79 866
9	Italian (it) Geofagia		12 815
10	Swedish (sv) Geofagi		9 845

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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 "Geofagia" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Geophagia		5 568
2	Japanese (ja) 土 (食材)		1 777
3	German (de) Erdeessen		667
4	Russian (ru) Геофагия		619
5	French (fr) Géophagie		405
6	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		285
7	Spanish (es) Geofagia		253
8	Portuguese (pt) Geofagia		221
9	Italian (it) Geofagia		165
10	Indonesian (id) Geofagia		94

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Geophagia		259
2	German (de) Erdeessen		81
3	French (fr) Géophagie		44
4	Russian (ru) Геофагия		36
5	Japanese (ja) 土 (食材)		27
6	Portuguese (pt) Geofagia		22
7	Danish (da) Geofagi		13
8	Swedish (sv) Geofagi		12
9	Czech (cs) Geofágie		10
10	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		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 "Geofagia" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Géophagie		1
2	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Геофагия		0
4	Czech (cs) Geofágie		0
5	Danish (da) Geofagi		0
6	German (de) Erdeessen		0
7	Greek (el) Γεωφαγία		0
8	English (en) Geophagia		0
9	Spanish (es) Geofagia		0
10	Persian (fa) خاک‌خواری		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 "Geofagia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Geophagia		255
2	Persian (fa) خاک‌خواری		123
3	Arabic (ar) أكل التراب		118
4	French (fr) Géophagie		110
5	Russian (ru) Геофагия		62
6	Czech (cs) Geofágie		54
7	Dutch (nl) Geofagie		53
8	Portuguese (pt) Geofagia		46
9	Ukrainian (uk) Геофагія		42
10	Spanish (es) Geofagia		26

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أكل التراب
bg	Bulgarian Геофагия
cs	Czech Geofágie
da	Danish Geofagi
de	German Erdeessen
el	Greek Γεωφαγία
en	English Geophagia
es	Spanish Geofagia
fa	Persian خاک‌خواری
fr	French Géophagie
id	Indonesian Geofagia
it	Italian Geofagia
ja	Japanese 土 (食材)
nl	Dutch Geofagie
pt	Portuguese Geofagia
ro	Romanian Geofagie
ru	Russian Геофагия
sr	Serbian Геофагија
sv	Swedish Geofagi
uk	Ukrainian Геофагія
ur	Urdu جیوفیگی
vi	Vietnamese Động vật ăn đất

Best Rank

Italian: #45303 01.2024

Global: #95327 08.2015

Best Rank

Italian: #7745 02.2022

Global: #525 05.2002

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