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Ad hominem

Quality:

Ad hominem - fallacious argumentative strategy that avoids genuine discussion of the topic by instead attacking the character, motive etc. of the person(s) associated with the argument. Article “Ad hominem” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ad hominem”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 80 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3016 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #82 in October 2003
  • Global: #305 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2693 in May 2021
  • Global: #5037 in January 2011

There are 46 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Indonesian (id)
Ad hominem
51.9764
2English (en)
Ad hominem
49.7693
3Latin (la)
Argumentum ad hominem
49.7281
4Thai (th)
Ad hominem
46.7956
5Uzbek (uz)
Ad hominem
44.6236
6Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
41.7328
7Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
39.5136
8Malay (ms)
Ad hominem
39.1139
9Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
34.0413
10Turkish (tr)
Ad hominem
33.5063
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Ad hominem" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ad hominem
13 675 768
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
3 672 334
3German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 280 098
4Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 099 240
5French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
1 000 091
6Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
806 840
7Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad hominem
449 315
8Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad hominem
304 022
9Finnish (fi)
Argumentum ad hominem
285 002
10Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
283 366
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Ad hominem" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ad hominem
22 375
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
3 114
3German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
2 722
4French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
2 194
5Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
1 668
6Japanese (ja)
人身攻撃
1 203
7Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad hominem
897
8Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
883
9Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
756
10Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
697
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Ad hominem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ad hominem
778
2German (de)
Argumentum ad hominem
167
3Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
143
4French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
125
5Hebrew (he)
אד הומינם
100
6Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
83
7Russian (ru)
Апелляция к личности
79
8Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
74
9Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad hominem
65
10Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
65
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Ad hominem" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
인신 공격의 오류
6
2English (en)
Ad hominem
2
3Persian (fa)
توسل به شخص
2
4Italian (it)
Argumentum ad hominem
1
5Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Ad hominem
1
6Arabic (ar)
شخصنة
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Ad hominem
0
8Belarusian (be)
Ad hominem
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Ad hominem
0
10Catalan (ca)
Argument ad hominem
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Ad hominem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ad hominem
575
2Chinese (zh)
訴諸人身
240
3Arabic (ar)
شخصنة
239
4Ukrainian (uk)
Argumentum ad hominem
206
5Spanish (es)
Argumento ad hominem
155
6Serbian (sr)
Ad hominem
129
7Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad hominem
122
8Persian (fa)
توسل به شخص
118
9Hebrew (he)
אד הומינם
82
10French (fr)
Argumentum ad hominem
80
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شخصنة
azAzerbaijani
Ad hominem
beBelarusian
Ad hominem
bgBulgarian
Ad hominem
caCatalan
Argument ad hominem
csCzech
Argumentum ad hominem
daDanish
Ad hominem
deGerman
Argumentum ad hominem
elGreek
Ad hominem
enEnglish
Ad hominem
esSpanish
Argumento ad hominem
etEstonian
Argumentum ad hominem
euBasque
Ad hominem argudioa
faPersian
توسل به شخص
fiFinnish
Argumentum ad hominem
frFrench
Argumentum ad hominem
glGalician
Argumento ad hóminem
heHebrew
אד הומינם
hiHindi
व्यक्ति-केन्द्रित कुतर्क
hrCroatian
Ad hominem
huHungarian
Argumentum ad hominem
idIndonesian
Ad hominem
itItalian
Argumentum ad hominem
jaJapanese
人身攻撃
kaGeorgian
Ad hominem
koKorean
인신 공격의 오류
laLatin
Argumentum ad hominem
ltLithuanian
Argumentas prieš žmogų
msMalay
Ad hominem
nlDutch
Argumentum ad hominem
noNorwegian
Ad hominem-argument
plPolish
Argumentum ad hominem
ptPortuguese
Argumentum ad hominem
roRomanian
Ad hominem
ruRussian
Апелляция к личности
shSerbo-Croatian
Ad hominem
simpleSimple English
Ad hominem
skSlovak
Argumentum ad hominem
srSerbian
Ad hominem
svSwedish
Ad hominem-argument
thThai
Ad hominem
trTurkish
Ad hominem
ukUkrainian
Argumentum ad hominem
uzUzbek
Ad hominem
viVietnamese
Lập luận công kích cá nhân
zhChinese
訴諸人身

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2693
05.2021
Global:
#5037
01.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#82
10.2003
Global:
#305
12.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ad hominem from Wikipedia articles about Stanford prison experiment, Tu quoque, Fallacy, Whataboutism and Informal fallacy. Whereas reading the article about Ad hominem people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of fallacies, Fallacy, Argumentum ad personam, And you are lynching Negroes and Tu quoque.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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