Hjernevask

Quality:

Brainwashing - process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated". Article “Hjernevask” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 4.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hjernevask”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 2383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 5788 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1088 in July 2006
• Global: #117 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #3827 in March 2010
• Global: #12687 in January 2008

There are 36 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) Brainwashing		94.5705
2	Chinese (zh) 洗腦		79.4245
3	Thai (th) การล้างสมอง		63.3355
4	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem cerebral		56.5234
5	Armenian (hy) Ուղեղների լվացում		54.1545
6	Serbian (sr) Испирање мозга		51.1858
7	German (de) Gehirnwäsche		47.1192
8	Czech (cs) Vymývání mozku		39.2482
9	French (fr) Lavage de cerveau		37.2124
10	Italian (it) Lavaggio del cervello		36.6422

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brainwashing		6 854 827
2	Japanese (ja) 洗脳		1 114 852
3	German (de) Gehirnwäsche		742 471
4	Chinese (zh) 洗腦		713 322
5	Spanish (es) Lavado de cerebro		589 714
6	French (fr) Lavage de cerveau		345 878
7	Arabic (ar) غسيل دماغ		278 393
8	Italian (it) Lavaggio del cervello		260 050
9	Polish (pl) Pranie mózgu		254 249
10	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem cerebral		247 502

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brainwashing		23 598
2	Japanese (ja) 洗脳		2 537
3	German (de) Gehirnwäsche		2 160
4	French (fr) Lavage de cerveau		1 869
5	Chinese (zh) 洗腦		1 863
6	Spanish (es) Lavado de cerebro		1 191
7	Italian (it) Lavaggio del cervello		968
8	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem cerebral		840
9	Arabic (ar) غسيل دماغ		749
10	Persian (fa) شستشوی مغزی		622

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brainwashing		1 059
2	Chinese (zh) 洗腦		254
3	German (de) Gehirnwäsche		158
4	French (fr) Lavage de cerveau		108
5	Italian (it) Lavaggio del cervello		81
6	Japanese (ja) 洗脳		78
7	Spanish (es) Lavado de cerebro		72
8	Hebrew (he) שטיפת מוח		62
9	Dutch (nl) Hersenspoeling		47
10	Persian (fa) شستشوی مغزی		43

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brainwashing		2
2	German (de) Gehirnwäsche		1
3	Slovak (sk) Brainwashing		1
4	Serbian (sr) Испирање мозга		1
5	Arabic (ar) غسيل دماغ		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Промиване на мозъци		0
7	Czech (cs) Vymývání mozku		0
8	Danish (da) Hjernevask		0
9	Greek (el) Πλύση εγκεφάλου		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Cerbolavado		0

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

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