Collection development

Library collection development - process of building the library materials to meet the information needs of the users. Article “Collection development” in English Wikipedia has 39.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.09 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.

Since the creation of article “Collection development”, its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 152 times in English Wikipedia and cited 188 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #46913 in June 2021
• Global: #111960 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #248044 in March 2020
• Global: #375162 in March 2015

There are 6 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) Collection development		39.7884
2	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		26.2391
3	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		20.1424
4	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		19.7385
5	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		2.6393
6	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		1.3184

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Collection development" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Collection development		350 116
2	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		56 273
3	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		23 890
4	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		4 461
5	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		1 084
6	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		181

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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 "Collection development" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Collection development		584
2	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		66
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		38
4	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		7
5	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		5
6	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		5

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

Language versions of the article "Collection development" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Collection development		62
2	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		43
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		18
4	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		5
5	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		4
6	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		2

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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 "Collection development" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		0
2	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		0
3	English (en) Collection development		0
4	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		0
5	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		0
6	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		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 "Collection development" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Collection development		152
2	Chinese (zh) 館藏發展		20
3	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de col·leccions		6
4	Spanish (es) Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca		4
5	Greek (el) Ανάπτυξη συλλογής		3
6	Basque (eu) Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen		3

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Desenvolupament de col·leccions
el	Greek Ανάπτυξη συλλογής
en	English Collection development
es	Spanish Desarrollo de la colección de una biblioteca
eu	Basque Liburutegiko bildumaren garapen
zh	Chinese 館藏發展

Best Rank

English: #248044 03.2020

Global: #375162 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #46913 06.2021

Global: #111960 01.2025

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