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Homo economicus

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Homo economicus - concept in many economic theories of humans as rational and narrowly self-interested actors who have the ability to make judgments toward their subjectively defined ends. Article “Homo economicus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Homo economicus”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 864 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #12216 in December 2022
  • Global: #1819 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #54569 in December 2022
  • Global: #23033 in February 2015

There are 26 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
51.9546
2English (en)
Homo economicus
42.3059
3Swedish (sv)
Homo oeconomicus
26.3426
4French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
26.1674
5Dutch (nl)
Homo oeconomicus
22.0577
6Czech (cs)
Homo oeconomicus
21.607
7Polish (pl)
Homo oeconomicus
21.6004
8Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
21.1649
9Azerbaijani (az)
Homo economicus
19.6501
10Arabic (ar)
الإنسان الاقتصادي
15.2144
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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 "Homo economicus" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Homo economicus
1 846 224
2German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
1 389 103
3French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
476 947
4Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
461 965
5Portuguese (pt)
Homo economicus
324 269
6Polish (pl)
Homo oeconomicus
212 518
7Japanese (ja)
経済人
174 340
8Italian (it)
Homo oeconomicus
167 203
9Chinese (zh)
经济人
113 124
10Dutch (nl)
Homo oeconomicus
81 318
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Homo economicus" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Homo economicus
5 137
2German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
1 429
3French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
768
4Chinese (zh)
经济人
452
5Japanese (ja)
経済人
435
6Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
415
7Italian (it)
Homo oeconomicus
403
8Polish (pl)
Homo oeconomicus
331
9Russian (ru)
Homo economicus
230
10Portuguese (pt)
Homo economicus
154
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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 "Homo economicus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
233
2English (en)
Homo economicus
213
3French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
92
4Italian (it)
Homo oeconomicus
43
5Polish (pl)
Homo oeconomicus
42
6Dutch (nl)
Homo oeconomicus
34
7Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
32
8Portuguese (pt)
Homo economicus
28
9Japanese (ja)
経済人
23
10Chinese (zh)
经济人
20
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Homo economicus" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
1
2French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
1
3Japanese (ja)
経済人
1
4Ukrainian (uk)
Людина економічна
1
5Arabic (ar)
الإنسان الاقتصادي
0
6Azerbaijani (az)
Homo economicus
0
7Catalan (ca)
Homo economicus
0
8Czech (cs)
Homo oeconomicus
0
9English (en)
Homo economicus
0
10Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
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 "Homo economicus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Homo oeconomicus
284
2English (en)
Homo economicus
192
3French (fr)
Homo œconomicus
87
4Spanish (es)
Homo œconomicus
70
5Portuguese (pt)
Homo economicus
62
6Romanian (ro)
Homo oeconomicus
59
7Japanese (ja)
経済人
56
8Dutch (nl)
Homo oeconomicus
45
9Chinese (zh)
经济人
43
10Catalan (ca)
Homo economicus
27
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الإنسان الاقتصادي
azAzerbaijani
Homo economicus
caCatalan
Homo economicus
csCzech
Homo oeconomicus
deGerman
Homo oeconomicus
enEnglish
Homo economicus
esSpanish
Homo œconomicus
euBasque
Homo economicus
faPersian
انسان اقتصادی
frFrench
Homo œconomicus
heHebrew
רציונליות מושלמת
itItalian
Homo oeconomicus
jaJapanese
経済人
koKorean
경제인
laLatin
Homo oeconomicus
nlDutch
Homo oeconomicus
plPolish
Homo oeconomicus
ptPortuguese
Homo economicus
roRomanian
Homo oeconomicus
ruRussian
Homo economicus
simpleSimple English
Homo economicus
slSlovenian
Homo economicus
srSerbian
Хомо економикус
svSwedish
Homo oeconomicus
ukUkrainian
Людина економічна
zhChinese
经济人

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#54569
12.2022
Global:
#23033
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#12216
12.2022
Global:
#1819
05.2002

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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