Принцип Питера

Quality:

The Peter Principle - book and concept by Laurence J. Peter that states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence". This book is the 169^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 339^th most popular book in Russian Wikipedia. Article "Принцип Питера" in Russian Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 11 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 339^th most popular in books in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 169^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article "Принцип Питера", its content was written by 65 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 1236 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Peter Principle is on the 339^th place in local ranking of books in Russian Wikipedia and on the 169^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #850 in December 2018
• Global: #3674 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #2673 in December 2012
• Global: #1831 in August 2018

There are 35 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	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de Peter		60.413
2	English (en) Peter principle		48.7747
3	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		32.8441
4	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		31.6395
5	French (fr) Principe de Peter		26.3574
6	Tamil (ta) பீட்டர் கோட்பாடு		26.0717
7	Catalan (ca) Principi de Peter		25.2615
8	Hungarian (hu) Peter-elv		24.7894
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Peterov princip		23.6264
10	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		22.231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Peter principle		11 421 906
2	French (fr) Principe de Peter		2 860 299
3	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		2 694 612
4	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		1 395 626
5	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		1 087 414
6	Japanese (ja) ピーターの法則		1 058 556
7	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		560 716
8	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		422 060
9	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de Peter		316 722
10	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		296 714

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) Peter principle		34 160
2	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		11 806
3	French (fr) Principe de Peter		10 525
4	Japanese (ja) ピーターの法則		4 583
5	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		3 854
6	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		2 978
7	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		2 911
8	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		2 428
9	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		1 015
10	Korean (ko) 피터의 법칙		798

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Peter principle		356
2	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		182
3	French (fr) Principe de Peter		178
4	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		65
5	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		47
6	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		46
7	Hebrew (he) העיקרון הפיטרי		41
8	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		40
9	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		29
10	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		23

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	French (fr) Principe de Peter		1
2	Arabic (ar) مبدأ بيتر		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Принцип на Питър		0
4	Catalan (ca) Principi de Peter		0
5	Czech (cs) Peterův princip		0
6	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		0
7	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		0
8	English (en) Peter principle		0
9	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		0
10	Basque (eu) Peterren hatsarrea		0

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

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