Brown bear

Quality:

Ursus arctos - species of mammal. This taxon is the 50^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 92^nd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Brown bear” in English Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 268 references and 30 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6673^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4121^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 92^nd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2820^th most popular in all topics.

The 1626^th most popular in AI.

The 50^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4915^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3290^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Brown bear” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 36 authors in all languages (3290^th place).

Since the creation of article “Brown bear”, its content was written by 1221 registered users of English Wikipedia (4121^st place) and edited by 5473 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1626^th place).

Ursus arctos is on the 92^nd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 50^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1726 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15879 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #103 in October 2001
• Global: #153 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1447 in October 2016
• Global: #1510 in April 2023

There are 53 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	Czech (cs) Medvěd hnědý		100
2	Slovak (sk) Medveď hnedý		100
3	Turkish (tr) Boz ayı		100
4	Finnish (fi) Karhu		98.1366
5	Romanian (ro) Urs brun		97.5468
6	English (en) Brown bear		97.1247
7	Bulgarian (bg) Кафява мечка		95
8	German (de) Braunbär		89.8803
9	Estonian (et) Pruunkaru		89.7904
10	Italian (it) Ursus arctos		79.5591

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brown bear		18 385 982
2	Russian (ru) Бурый медведь		5 533 038
3	Japanese (ja) ヒグマ		4 369 877
4	German (de) Braunbär		4 271 834
5	Spanish (es) Ursus arctos		2 622 151
6	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź brunatny		2 617 333
7	French (fr) Ours brun		1 970 692
8	Finnish (fi) Karhu		1 868 863
9	Italian (it) Ursus arctos		1 574 395
10	Czech (cs) Medvěd hnědý		1 172 544

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) Brown bear		59 616
2	Japanese (ja) ヒグマ		17 774
3	Russian (ru) Бурый медведь		12 657
4	German (de) Braunbär		10 752
5	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź brunatny		7 741
6	Spanish (es) Ursus arctos		5 543
7	French (fr) Ours brun		4 718
8	Finnish (fi) Karhu		4 443
9	Italian (it) Ursus arctos		4 338
10	Chinese (zh) 棕熊		3 188

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brown bear		1 221
2	German (de) Braunbär		495
3	French (fr) Ours brun		296
4	Finnish (fi) Karhu		291
5	Italian (it) Ursus arctos		240
6	Russian (ru) Бурый медведь		226
7	Japanese (ja) ヒグマ		185
8	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź brunatny		161
9	Swedish (sv) Brunbjörn		146
10	Spanish (es) Ursus arctos		145

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) Brown bear		5
2	French (fr) Ours brun		4
3	Russian (ru) Бурый медведь		4
4	Spanish (es) Ursus arctos		3
5	Japanese (ja) ヒグマ		2
6	Slovenian (sl) Rjavi medved		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qonur ayı		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кафява мечка		1
9	Catalan (ca) Os bru		1
10	Danish (da) Brun bjørn		1

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

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