Binomial nomenclature

Quality:

Binomial nomenclature - system of identifying species of organisms using a two-part name. Article “Binomial nomenclature” in English Wikipedia has 85.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 85 references and 16 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.

In June 2026 the article “Binomial nomenclature” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Binomial nomenclature”, its content was written by 791 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2301 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 399996 times in English Wikipedia (13^th place) and cited 1783404 times in all languages (38^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #231 in July 2002
• Global: #464 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #480 in July 2010
• Global: #1304 in July 2010

There are 47 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, 2026 (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) Binomial nomenclature		85.3277
2	Simple English (simple) Binomial nomenclature		37.7921
3	Chinese (zh) 二名法		37.1473
4	Esperanto (eo) Dunoma nomsistemo		35.5196
5	Tamil (ta) இருசொற் பெயரீடு		35.2886
6	Vietnamese (vi) Danh pháp hai phần		34.8842
7	Czech (cs) Biologická nomenklatura		33.4468
8	French (fr) Nom binominal		31.9233
9	Dutch (nl) Binomiale nomenclatuur		31.7509
10	Catalan (ca) Nomenclatura binomial		30.0428

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binomial nomenclature		12 873 550
2	Spanish (es) Nomenclatura binominal		2 975 222
3	Indonesian (id) Tata nama biologi		1 913 394
4	Portuguese (pt) Nomenclatura binomial		1 758 926
5	Thai (th) การตั้งชื่อทวินาม		1 077 374
6	Arabic (ar) تسمية ثنائية		912 892
7	Chinese (zh) 二名法		701 979
8	Italian (it) Nomenclatura binomiale		634 608
9	French (fr) Nom binominal		618 324
10	Hindi (hi) द्विपद नामपद्धति		511 001

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) Binomial nomenclature		23 783
2	Persian (fa) نام علمی		1 461
3	Chinese (zh) 二名法		1 448
4	Portuguese (pt) Nomenclatura binomial		1 250
5	Spanish (es) Nomenclatura binominal		1 049
6	Italian (it) Nomenclatura binomiale		931
7	Thai (th) การตั้งชื่อทวินาม		904
8	French (fr) Nom binominal		752
9	Hebrew (he) שם מדעי		747
10	Vietnamese (vi) Danh pháp hai phần		669

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Binomial nomenclature		791
2	French (fr) Nom binominal		156
3	Italian (it) Nomenclatura binomiale		124
4	Spanish (es) Nomenclatura binominal		97
5	Chinese (zh) 二名法		84
6	Portuguese (pt) Nomenclatura binomial		78
7	Hungarian (hu) A fajok tudományos neve		69
8	Vietnamese (vi) Danh pháp hai phần		59
9	Hebrew (he) שם מדעי		51
10	Hindi (hi) द्विपद नामपद्धति		48

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) Binomial nomenclature		3
2	Arabic (ar) تسمية ثنائية		2
3	Catalan (ca) Nomenclatura binomial		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Біноміальна номенклатура		1
5	Chinese (zh) 二名法		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Binominal nomenklatura		0
7	Belarusian (be) Бінамінальная наменклатура		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Бинарна номенклатура		0
9	Czech (cs) Biologická nomenklatura		0
10	Danish (da) Videnskabeligt artsnavn		0

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

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