Escudo humano

Human shield - deliberate placement of non-combatants in or around combat targets to deter an enemy from attacking those targets. Article “Escudo humano” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 25.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Escudo humano”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 853 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 1255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #6617 in May 2025
• Global: #2287 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #143615 in October 2023
• Global: #46289 in July 2014

There are 24 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) Human shield		73.8761
2	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		69.5322
3	French (fr) Bouclier humain		44.3811
4	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		38.3916
5	Italian (it) Scudo umano		38.0977
6	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		38.0775
7	Finnish (fi) Ihmiskilpi		35.6975
8	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		32.623
9	Catalan (ca) Escut humà		29.8529
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lá chắn sống		26.7498

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human shield		1 055 293
2	Japanese (ja) 人間の盾		213 862
3	French (fr) Bouclier humain		86 512
4	Russian (ru) Живой щит		83 692
5	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		72 604
6	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		28 605
7	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		27 350
8	Italian (it) Scudo umano		20 709
9	Finnish (fi) Ihmiskilpi		18 306
10	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		17 638

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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 "Escudo humano" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human shield		6 566
2	Japanese (ja) 人間の盾		913
3	Russian (ru) Живой щит		640
4	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		410
5	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		351
6	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		282
7	French (fr) Bouclier humain		262
8	Italian (it) Scudo umano		211
9	Chinese (zh) 人肉盾牌		189
10	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		163

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human shield		472
2	French (fr) Bouclier humain		75
3	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		46
4	Japanese (ja) 人間の盾		45
5	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		40
6	Italian (it) Scudo umano		33
7	Russian (ru) Живой щит		33
8	Finnish (fi) Ihmiskilpi		19
9	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		13
10	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		13

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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 "Escudo humano" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human shield		4
2	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		4
3	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		3
4	Japanese (ja) 人間の盾		2
5	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		1
6	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		1
7	French (fr) Bouclier humain		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lá chắn sống		1
9	Arabic (ar) درع بشري		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Canlı sədd		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 "Escudo humano" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Human shield		411
2	French (fr) Bouclier humain		120
3	Hebrew (he) מגן אנושי		104
4	German (de) Menschlicher Schutzschild		63
5	Japanese (ja) 人間の盾		62
6	Spanish (es) Escudo humano		54
7	Persian (fa) سپر انسانی		51
8	Russian (ru) Живой щит		50
9	Arabic (ar) درع بشري		45
10	Italian (it) Scudo umano		39

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic درع بشري
az	Azerbaijani Canlı sədd
ca	Catalan Escut humà
de	German Menschlicher Schutzschild
en	English Human shield
es	Spanish Escudo humano
fa	Persian سپر انسانی
fi	Finnish Ihmiskilpi
fr	French Bouclier humain
he	Hebrew מגן אנושי
hr	Croatian Živi štit
id	Indonesian Tameng manusia
it	Italian Scudo umano
ja	Japanese 人間の盾
ko	Korean 인간 방패
no	Norwegian Levende skjold
pl	Polish Ludzka tarcza
pt	Portuguese Escudo humano
ru	Russian Живой щит
sh	Serbo-Croatian Ljudski štit
sv	Swedish Mänskliga sköldar
uk	Ukrainian Живий щит
vi	Vietnamese Lá chắn sống
zh	Chinese 人肉盾牌

Best Rank

Portuguese: #143615 10.2023

Global: #46289 07.2014

Best Rank

Portuguese: #6617 05.2025

Global: #2287 08.2014

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