The present application discloses an article quality scoring method and device, a client, a server, and a programmable device. The method includes: obtaining browsing behavior information of a user when the user browses a target article; obtaining a browsing behavior score of the user for the target article according to the browsing behavior information and a corresponding browsing behavior coefficient; and obtaining an article quality score of the target article according to obtained browsing behavior scores of multiple users for the target article.