Anglerfish

Quality:

Lophiiformes - order of fish belonging to the bony fishes (Osteichthyes). This taxon is the 666^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 275^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Anglerfish” in English Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 133 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.91 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 275^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 666^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Anglerfish” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Anglerfish”, its content was written by 678 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1325 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lophiiformes is on the 275^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 666^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1063 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5197 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3427 in April 2025
• Global: #5506 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #494 in February 2025
• Global: #742 in February 2025

There are 42 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	English (en) Anglerfish		93.3283
2	Portuguese (pt) Lophiiformes		70.3004
3	Latin (la) Lophiiformes		69.6719
4	Chinese (zh) 鮟鱇		65.7544
5	Japanese (ja) アンコウ目		63.1849
6	Catalan (ca) Lofiformes		55.9564
7	Thai (th) ปลาตกเบ็ด		52.4933
8	French (fr) Lophiiformes		42.6425
9	Spanish (es) Lophiiformes		41.1731
10	Simple English (simple) Anglerfish		40.2735

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anglerfish		10 735 935
2	Chinese (zh) 鮟鱇		862 400
3	Spanish (es) Lophiiformes		330 709
4	Portuguese (pt) Lophiiformes		274 553
5	Russian (ru) Удильщикообразные		254 047
6	French (fr) Lophiiformes		229 962
7	Italian (it) Lophiiformes		191 154
8	Japanese (ja) アンコウ目		184 965
9	Polish (pl) Żabnicokształtne		180 393
10	German (de) Armflosser		152 624

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anglerfish		40 768
2	Chinese (zh) 鮟鱇		4 523
3	Russian (ru) Удильщикообразные		2 141
4	Spanish (es) Lophiiformes		1 310
5	French (fr) Lophiiformes		1 082
6	Italian (it) Lophiiformes		869
7	German (de) Armflosser		776
8	Polish (pl) Żabnicokształtne		754
9	Portuguese (pt) Lophiiformes		710
10	Simple English (simple) Anglerfish		673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Anglerfish		678
2	French (fr) Lophiiformes		63
3	Chinese (zh) 鮟鱇		49
4	German (de) Armflosser		41
5	Italian (it) Lophiiformes		41
6	Portuguese (pt) Lophiiformes		40
7	Spanish (es) Lophiiformes		38
8	Dutch (nl) Vinarmigen		32
9	Hebrew (he) חכאים		28
10	Japanese (ja) アンコウ目		26

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Anglerfish		3
2	Chinese (zh) 鮟鱇		2
3	Indonesian (id) Lophiiformes		1
4	Arabic (ar) أبو الشص		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tilovlukimilər		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Морски дяволи		0
7	Catalan (ca) Lofiformes		0
8	Czech (cs) Ďasové		0
9	German (de) Armflosser		0
10	Spanish (es) Lophiiformes		0

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

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