Allen's rule

Allen's rule - biological rule that warm-blooded animals from colder climates usually have shorter limbs. Article “Allen's rule” in English Wikipedia has 46.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Allen's rule” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Allen's rule”, its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 327 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 72 times in English Wikipedia and cited 296 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #55339 in May 2005
• Global: #26620 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26082 in April 2013
• Global: #49581 in April 2013

There are 29 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	Turkish (tr) Allen kuralı		47.2406
2	English (en) Allen's rule		46.904
3	Catalan (ca) Regla d'Allen		38.1515
4	Vietnamese (vi) Quy tắc Allen		37.342
5	Hungarian (hu) Allen-szabály		32.941
6	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		27.2159
7	Esperanto (eo) Regulo de Allen		26.1552
8	French (fr) Règle d'Allen		25.7274
9	Galician (gl) Regra de Allen		24.9614
10	Persian (fa) قانون آلن		24.198

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Allen's rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Allen's rule		886 985
2	Russian (ru) Правило Аллена		148 795
3	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		99 031
4	Polish (pl) Reguła Allena		48 647
5	French (fr) Règle d'Allen		46 996
6	Czech (cs) Allenovo pravidlo		41 358
7	Japanese (ja) アレンの法則		41 120
8	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Аллена		39 924
9	Italian (it) Regola di Allen		24 715
10	Korean (ko) 알렌의 법칙		20 762

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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 "Allen's rule" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Allen's rule		3 574
2	Japanese (ja) アレンの法則		556
3	Russian (ru) Правило Аллена		354
4	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		155
5	French (fr) Règle d'Allen		153
6	Czech (cs) Allenovo pravidlo		116
7	Chinese (zh) 艾伦法则		113
8	Italian (it) Regola di Allen		95
9	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Аллена		92
10	Korean (ko) 알렌의 법칙		72

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

Language versions of the article "Allen's rule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Allen's rule		84
2	French (fr) Règle d'Allen		33
3	Hebrew (he) כלל אלן		28
4	Italian (it) Regola di Allen		23
5	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		19
6	Russian (ru) Правило Аллена		17
7	Polish (pl) Reguła Allena		14
8	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Аллена		12
9	Czech (cs) Allenovo pravidlo		8
10	Japanese (ja) アレンの法則		8

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

Language versions of the article "Allen's rule" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Allen's rule		1
2	Japanese (ja) アレンの法則		1
3	Arabic (ar) قاعدة ألين		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Правило на Алън		0
5	Catalan (ca) Regla d'Allen		0
6	Czech (cs) Allenovo pravidlo		0
7	Danish (da) Allens regel		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Regulo de Allen		0
9	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		0
10	Estonian (et) Alleni reegel		0

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

Language versions of the article "Allen's rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Allen's rule		72
2	Italian (it) Regola di Allen		28
3	French (fr) Règle d'Allen		22
4	Chinese (zh) 艾伦法则		21
5	Japanese (ja) アレンの法則		18
6	Spanish (es) Regla de Allen		16
7	Russian (ru) Правило Аллена		15
8	Turkish (tr) Allen kuralı		14
9	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Аллена		14
10	Persian (fa) قانون آلن		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قاعدة ألين
bg	Bulgarian Правило на Алън
ca	Catalan Regla d'Allen
cs	Czech Allenovo pravidlo
da	Danish Allens regel
en	English Allen's rule
eo	Esperanto Regulo de Allen
es	Spanish Regla de Allen
et	Estonian Alleni reegel
fa	Persian قانون آلن
fi	Finnish Allenin sääntö
fr	French Règle d'Allen
gl	Galician Regra de Allen
he	Hebrew כלל אלן
hu	Hungarian Allen-szabály
it	Italian Regola di Allen
ja	Japanese アレンの法則
kk	Kazakh Аллен ережесі
ko	Korean 알렌의 법칙
pl	Polish Reguła Allena
pt	Portuguese Regra de Allen
ru	Russian Правило Аллена
sl	Slovenian Allenovo pravilo
sr	Serbian Аленово правило
sv	Swedish Allens lag
tr	Turkish Allen kuralı
uk	Ukrainian Правило Аллена
vi	Vietnamese Quy tắc Allen
zh	Chinese 艾伦法则

Best Rank

English: #26082 04.2013

Global: #49581 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #55339 05.2005

Global: #26620 11.2002

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