Barley

Quality:

Hordeum vulgare - species of plant. This taxon is the 142^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 117^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Barley” in English Wikipedia has 96.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 130 references and 24 sections.

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:

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The 7709^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 117^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6893^rd most popular in all topics.

The 7903^rd most popular in AI.

The 142^nd most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Barley” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Barley”, its content was written by 661 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2842 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7903^rd place).

Hordeum vulgare is on the 117^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 142^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2931 times in English Wikipedia and cited 18226 times in all languages (9138^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3441 in January 2024
• Global: #222 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #163 in January 2014
• Global: #347 in January 2014

There are 54 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) Barley		96.6267
2	Esperanto (eo) Ordinara hordeo		88.9294
3	Catalan (ca) Ordi		69.5482
4	Estonian (et) Oder		68.2379
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bygg		66.5663
6	German (de) Gerste		64.9504
7	Chinese (zh) 大麦		63.0792
8	Hebrew (he) שעורה תרבותית		55.2061
9	Spanish (es) Hordeum vulgare		54.2756
10	Turkish (tr) Arpa		54.0485

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Barley		16 119 591
2	German (de) Gerste		3 336 434
3	Spanish (es) Hordeum vulgare		2 601 716
4	Japanese (ja) オオムギ		1 466 106
5	French (fr) Orge commune		1 456 815
6	Portuguese (pt) Cevada		924 647
7	Italian (it) Hordeum vulgare		806 524
8	Arabic (ar) شعير		710 190
9	Dutch (nl) Gerst		632 996
10	Chinese (zh) 大麦		603 346

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) Barley		45 273
2	German (de) Gerste		16 806
3	Japanese (ja) オオムギ		5 841
4	French (fr) Orge commune		5 784
5	Spanish (es) Hordeum vulgare		5 597
6	Chinese (zh) 大麦		3 622
7	Swedish (sv) Korn		2 842
8	Italian (it) Hordeum vulgare		2 784
9	Dutch (nl) Gerst		2 110
10	Russian (ru) Ячмень обыкновенный		2 066

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Barley		661
2	German (de) Gerste		289
3	French (fr) Orge commune		175
4	Italian (it) Hordeum vulgare		104
5	Spanish (es) Hordeum vulgare		99
6	Dutch (nl) Gerst		96
7	Japanese (ja) オオムギ		85
8	Hebrew (he) שעורה תרבותית		77
9	Norwegian (no) Seksradsbygg		64
10	Arabic (ar) شعير		60

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) Barley		2
2	Esperanto (eo) Ordinara hordeo		2
3	Russian (ru) Ячмень обыкновенный		2
4	Chinese (zh) 大麦		2
5	Spanish (es) Hordeum vulgare		1
6	Persian (fa) جو (گیاه)		1
7	French (fr) Orge commune		1
8	Galician (gl) Cebada		1
9	Hebrew (he) שעורה תרבותית		1
10	Italian (it) Hordeum vulgare		1

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

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