Cope's rule

Cope's rule - A postulation pertaining to evolution. Article “Cope's rule” in English Wikipedia has 50.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 6 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.

Since the creation of article “Cope's rule”, its content was written by 51 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 67 times in English Wikipedia and cited 191 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67385 in May 2014
• Global: #131749 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #62706 in July 2010
• Global: #102319 in July 2010

There are 16 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) Cope's rule		50.8259
2	Spanish (es) Regla de Cope		34.7464
3	Turkish (tr) Cope kuralı		34.0238
4	Portuguese (pt) Regra de Cope		30.8273
5	German (de) Copes Gesetz		30.4793
6	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		29.2487
7	Polish (pl) Reguła Cope’a		27.7329
8	Armenian (hy) Կոպի օրենք		27.5883
9	Russian (ru) Закон Копа		25.6176
10	French (fr) Règle de Cope		22.2543

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Cope's rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cope's rule		248 167
2	Japanese (ja) コープの法則		22 439
3	German (de) Copes Gesetz		20 897
4	Russian (ru) Закон Копа		18 582
5	Polish (pl) Reguła Cope’a		12 757
6	Chinese (zh) 柯普定律 (生物学)		7 594
7	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		6 130
8	French (fr) Règle de Cope		3 629
9	Spanish (es) Regla de Cope		2 916
10	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Копа — Депере		1 724

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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 "Cope's rule" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cope's rule		947
2	Russian (ru) Закон Копа		167
3	Chinese (zh) 柯普定律 (生物学)		157
4	Japanese (ja) コープの法則		110
5	German (de) Copes Gesetz		68
6	Polish (pl) Reguła Cope’a		44
7	Spanish (es) Regla de Cope		32
8	French (fr) Règle de Cope		26
9	Portuguese (pt) Regra de Cope		26
10	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		25

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

Language versions of the article "Cope's rule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cope's rule		51
2	German (de) Copes Gesetz		15
3	French (fr) Règle de Cope		8
4	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		7
5	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Копа — Депере		7
6	Japanese (ja) コープの法則		5
7	Polish (pl) Reguła Cope’a		5
8	Russian (ru) Закон Копа		5
9	Korean (ko) 코프의 규칙		4
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quy tắc Cope		4

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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 "Cope's rule" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Copes Gesetz		0
2	English (en) Cope's rule		0
3	Esperanto (eo) Kopa regulo		0
4	Spanish (es) Regla de Cope		0
5	French (fr) Règle de Cope		0
6	Armenian (hy) Կոպի օրենք		0
7	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		0
8	Japanese (ja) コープの法則		0
9	Korean (ko) 코프의 규칙		0
10	Polish (pl) Reguła Cope’a		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 "Cope's rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Cope's rule		67
2	French (fr) Règle de Cope		20
3	Chinese (zh) 柯普定律 (生物学)		19
4	Turkish (tr) Cope kuralı		18
5	Japanese (ja) コープの法則		17
6	Russian (ru) Закон Копа		10
7	German (de) Copes Gesetz		8
8	Italian (it) Regola di Cope		7
9	Portuguese (pt) Regra de Cope		7
10	Spanish (es) Regla de Cope		5

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#	Language	Value
de	German Copes Gesetz
en	English Cope's rule
eo	Esperanto Kopa regulo
es	Spanish Regla de Cope
fr	French Règle de Cope
hy	Armenian Կոպի օրենք
it	Italian Regola di Cope
ja	Japanese コープの法則
ko	Korean 코프의 규칙
pl	Polish Reguła Cope’a
pt	Portuguese Regra de Cope
ru	Russian Закон Копа
tr	Turkish Cope kuralı
uk	Ukrainian Закон Копа — Депере
vi	Vietnamese Quy tắc Cope
zh	Chinese 柯普定律 (生物学)

Best Rank

English: #62706 07.2010

Global: #102319 07.2010

Best Rank

English: #67385 05.2014

Global: #131749 10.2004

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