Magical thinking

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Magical thinking

Quality:

Magical thinking - illogical conclusions based on correlated events, or belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them. Article “Magical thinking” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.21 points.

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 “Magical thinking”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2690 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #225 in December 2014
  • Global: #269 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #22974 in December 2014
  • Global: #44755 in November 2008

There are 28 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
1English (en)
Magical thinking
52.0889
2Italian (it)
Pensiero magico
45.1115
3Thai (th)
ความคิดเชิงไสยศาสตร์
43.862
4Arabic (ar)
تفكير سحري
36.6153
5Russian (ru)
Магическое мышление
31.8835
6Turkish (tr)
Büyülü düşünme
31.0436
7German (de)
Magisches Denken
29.877
8Ukrainian (uk)
Магічне мислення
27.4001
9Armenian (hy)
Մոգական մտածողություն
25.6127
10Indonesian (id)
Pemikiran magis
25.5394
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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 "Magical thinking" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Magical thinking
2 676 791
2Spanish (es)
Pensamiento mágico
1 220 002
3German (de)
Magisches Denken
626 996
4Russian (ru)
Магическое мышление
518 289
5French (fr)
Pensée magique
336 634
6Polish (pl)
Myślenie magiczne
277 982
7Dutch (nl)
Magisch denken
193 244
8Italian (it)
Pensiero magico
154 733
9Japanese (ja)
呪術的思考
124 474
10Portuguese (pt)
Pensamento mágico
85 842
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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 "Magical thinking" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Magical thinking
11 850
2Russian (ru)
Магическое мышление
2 540
3German (de)
Magisches Denken
1 402
4French (fr)
Pensée magique
1 150
5Spanish (es)
Pensamiento mágico
858
6Polish (pl)
Myślenie magiczne
605
7Italian (it)
Pensiero magico
472
8Japanese (ja)
呪術的思考
414
9Dutch (nl)
Magisch denken
219
10Simple English (simple)
Magical thinking
211
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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 "Magical thinking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Magical thinking
347
2French (fr)
Pensée magique
68
3Spanish (es)
Pensamiento mágico
66
4German (de)
Magisches Denken
62
5Dutch (nl)
Magisch denken
50
6Russian (ru)
Магическое мышление
46
7Italian (it)
Pensiero magico
31
8Polish (pl)
Myślenie magiczne
31
9Japanese (ja)
呪術的思考
23
10Persian (fa)
تفکر جادویی
13
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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 "Magical thinking" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Magical thinking
1
2Arabic (ar)
تفكير سحري
0
3German (de)
Magisches Denken
0
4Greek (el)
Ευσεβείς πόθοι
0
5Esperanto (eo)
Revopensado
0
6Spanish (es)
Pensamiento mágico
0
7Basque (eu)
Pentsamendu magiko
0
8Persian (fa)
تفکر جادویی
0
9French (fr)
Pensée magique
0
10Hungarian (hu)
Vágyvezérelt gondolkodás
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 "Magical thinking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Magical thinking
591
2Persian (fa)
تفکر جادویی
582
3Serbian (sr)
Магијско мишљење
367
4Russian (ru)
Магическое мышление
236
5Arabic (ar)
تفكير سحري
220
6French (fr)
Pensée magique
113
7Italian (it)
Pensiero magico
90
8Spanish (es)
Pensamiento mágico
72
9Japanese (ja)
呪術的思考
66
10Ukrainian (uk)
Магічне мислення
66
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تفكير سحري
deGerman
Magisches Denken
elGreek
Ευσεβείς πόθοι
enEnglish
Magical thinking
eoEsperanto
Revopensado
esSpanish
Pensamiento mágico
euBasque
Pentsamendu magiko
faPersian
تفکر جادویی
frFrench
Pensée magique
huHungarian
Vágyvezérelt gondolkodás
hyArmenian
Մոգական մտածողություն
idIndonesian
Pemikiran magis
itItalian
Pensiero magico
jaJapanese
呪術的思考
koKorean
주술적 사고
ltLithuanian
Maginis mąstymas
msMalay
Pemikiran magis
nlDutch
Magisch denken
plPolish
Myślenie magiczne
ptPortuguese
Pensamento mágico
roRomanian
Gândire magică
ruRussian
Магическое мышление
simpleSimple English
Magical thinking
srSerbian
Магијско мишљење
svSwedish
Magiskt tänkande
thThai
ความคิดเชิงไสยศาสตร์
trTurkish
Büyülü düşünme
ukUkrainian
Магічне мислення

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#22974
12.2014
Global:
#44755
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#225
12.2014
Global:
#269
03.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Magical thinking from Wikipedia articles about Schizotypal personality disorder, Waldorf education, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Cargo cult and Apophenia. Whereas reading the article about Magical thinking people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Schizotypal personality disorder, Magiphrenic syndrome, Thought disorder, Tinkerbell effect and Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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