Culture shock

Quality:

Culture shock - experience one may have when moving to a cultural environment which is different from one's own. Article “Culture shock” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Culture shock”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1864 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3906 in October 2010
• Global: #5038 in May 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4202 in December 2015
• Global: #34030 in October 2013

There are 41 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Culture shock		52.3373
2	German (de) Kulturschock		45.8256
3	Portuguese (pt) Choque cultural		39.6576
4	Chinese (zh) 文化冲击		39.5937
5	Korean (ko) 문화 충격		39.5576
6	Spanish (es) Choque cultural		38.0235
7	Czech (cs) Kulturní šok		33.4981
8	Italian (it) Shock culturale		32.6327
9	Malay (ms) Kejutan budaya		30.1736
10	Basque (eu) Shock kultural		27.7022

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Culture shock		3 945 497
2	Spanish (es) Choque cultural		510 346
3	Russian (ru) Культурный шок		426 797
4	Japanese (ja) カルチャーショック		405 925
5	German (de) Kulturschock		330 278
6	Chinese (zh) 文化冲击		199 935
7	Portuguese (pt) Choque cultural		132 501
8	Indonesian (id) Gegar budaya		103 089
9	Swedish (sv) Kulturkrock		95 478
10	Polish (pl) Szok kulturowy		89 313

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) Culture shock		5 553
2	Japanese (ja) カルチャーショック		642
3	Russian (ru) Культурный шок		573
4	Chinese (zh) 文化冲击		347
5	German (de) Kulturschock		331
6	Spanish (es) Choque cultural		229
7	French (fr) Choc culturel		168
8	Persian (fa) شوک فرهنگی		121
9	Indonesian (id) Gegar budaya		98
10	Portuguese (pt) Choque cultural		94

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Culture shock		289
2	German (de) Kulturschock		90
3	Russian (ru) Культурный шок		32
4	Hebrew (he) הלם תרבות		27
5	Japanese (ja) カルチャーショック		26
6	Vietnamese (vi) Sốc văn hóa		25
7	Spanish (es) Choque cultural		24
8	French (fr) Choc culturel		22
9	Hungarian (hu) Kulturális sokk		20
10	Chinese (zh) 文化冲击		20

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	Russian (ru) Культурный шок		3
2	English (en) Culture shock		1
3	Italian (it) Shock culturale		1
4	Korean (ko) 문화 충격		1
5	Arabic (ar) صدمة ثقافية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Mədəniyyət şoku		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Културен шок		0
8	Czech (cs) Kulturní šok		0
9	German (de) Kulturschock		0
10	Greek (el) Πολιτισμικό σοκ		0

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

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