退化 (病症)

Degeneration theory - 19th-century theory that civilization was declining due to biological change. Article “退化 (病症)” in Chinese Wikipedia has 2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.22 points.

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

Since the creation of article “退化 (病症)”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 416 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 714 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #2275 in December 2022
• Global: #5079 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #230032 in December 2022
• Global: #216325 in May 2025

There are 16 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	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		58.9977
2	English (en) Social degeneration		53.0172
3	Catalan (ca) Degeneracionisme		33.45
4	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		33.0213
5	Portuguese (pt) Degeneração		30.4422
6	Spanish (es) Degeneración social		28.9853
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дегенерація (психіатрія)		25.2836
8	Greek (el) Θεωρία του κοινωνικού εκφυλισμού		23.0967
9	Japanese (ja) 退化		22.8492
10	Russian (ru) Теория вырождения		17.3219

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "退化 (病症)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social degeneration		501 526
2	Japanese (ja) 退化		195 214
3	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		118 085
4	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		114 165
5	Russian (ru) Теория вырождения		105 259
6	Portuguese (pt) Degeneração		80 577
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дегенерація (психіатрія)		39 961
8	Italian (it) Degenerazione psichiatrica		16 799
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية الانحطاط		10 830
10	Korean (ko) 퇴화		7 936

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "退化 (病症)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social degeneration		5 230
2	Russian (ru) Теория вырождения		1 378
3	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		611
4	Japanese (ja) 退化		380
5	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		373
6	Spanish (es) Degeneración social		163
7	Chinese (zh) 退化 (病症)		136
8	Portuguese (pt) Degeneração		131
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дегенерація (психіатрія)		79
10	Italian (it) Degenerazione psichiatrica		76

More...

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

Language versions of the article "退化 (病症)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social degeneration		154
2	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		101
3	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		35
4	Japanese (ja) 退化		28
5	Chinese (zh) 退化 (病症)		16
6	Russian (ru) Теория вырождения		15
7	Italian (it) Degenerazione psichiatrica		14
8	Portuguese (pt) Degeneração		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дегенерація (психіатрія)		11
10	Spanish (es) Degeneración social		7

More...

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

Language versions of the article "退化 (病症)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social degeneration		1
2	Arabic (ar) نظرية الانحطاط		0
3	Catalan (ca) Degeneracionisme		0
4	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		0
5	Greek (el) Θεωρία του κοινωνικού εκφυλισμού		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Degenero		0
7	Spanish (es) Degeneración social		0
8	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		0
9	Italian (it) Degenerazione psichiatrica		0
10	Japanese (ja) 退化		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "退化 (病症)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 退化		222
2	English (en) Social degeneration		178
3	French (fr) Théorie de la dégénérescence		82
4	German (de) Entartung (Medizingeschichte)		58
5	Portuguese (pt) Degeneração		41
6	Russian (ru) Теория вырождения		32
7	Spanish (es) Degeneración social		22
8	Korean (ko) 퇴화		18
9	Catalan (ca) Degeneracionisme		12
10	Esperanto (eo) Degenero		11

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الانحطاط
ca	Catalan Degeneracionisme
de	German Entartung (Medizingeschichte)
el	Greek Θεωρία του κοινωνικού εκφυλισμού
en	English Social degeneration
eo	Esperanto Degenero
es	Spanish Degeneración social
fr	French Théorie de la dégénérescence
it	Italian Degenerazione psichiatrica
ja	Japanese 退化
ko	Korean 퇴화
pt	Portuguese Degeneração
ru	Russian Теория вырождения
tr	Turkish Toplumsal dejenerasyon
uk	Ukrainian Дегенерація (психіатрія)
zh	Chinese 退化 (病症)

Best Rank

Chinese: #230032 12.2022

Global: #216325 05.2025

Best Rank

Chinese: #2275 12.2022

Global: #5079 02.2003

On 9 December 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Stranger Things, 2026 FIFA World Cup, Lando Norris, Millie Bobby Brown, Sean Combs, It: Welcome to Derry, ChatGPT, Zootopia 2, deaths in 2025, Cassie Ventura.

In Chinese Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 越南屠夫事件, CORTIS, 方國珊, 白天辉, 习近平, 認罪之罪, 王洪文, 動物方城市2, 趙雨凡, 宏福苑大火.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information