Directed evolution

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Directed evolution

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Directed evolution - method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to steer proteins or nucleic acids toward a user-defined goal. Article “Directed evolution” in English Wikipedia has 79 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 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.

Since the creation of article “Directed evolution”, its content was written by 86 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 177 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 118 times in English Wikipedia and cited 231 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #7737 in October 2018
  • Global: #25977 in October 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #35453 in October 2018
  • Global: #63569 in October 2018

There are 12 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Directed evolution
79.0248
2Galician (gl)
Evolución dirixida
49.2416
3French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
45.7126
4Slovak (sk)
Smerovaná evolúcia
40.8269
5Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
35.6762
6Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
33.1451
7Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş evrim
25.7335
8German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
25.3744
9Indonesian (id)
Evolusi terarah
22.0227
10Persian (fa)
فرگشت جهت‌دار
9.1471
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Directed evolution" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directed evolution
547 826
2German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
70 174
3Spanish (es)
Evolución dirigida
30 676
4French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
26 526
5Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
6 132
6Catalan (ca)
Evolució dirigida
2 732
7Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
2 140
8Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş evrim
1 833
9Indonesian (id)
Evolusi terarah
595
10Galician (gl)
Evolución dirixida
519
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Directed evolution" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directed evolution
1 953
2Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
332
3German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
129
4French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
49
5Spanish (es)
Evolución dirigida
43
6Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş evrim
22
7Catalan (ca)
Evolució dirigida
17
8Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
15
9Galician (gl)
Evolución dirixida
9
10Persian (fa)
فرگشت جهت‌دار
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Directed evolution" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Directed evolution
86
2German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
32
3French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
21
4Spanish (es)
Evolución dirigida
8
5Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş evrim
6
6Catalan (ca)
Evolució dirigida
5
7Slovak (sk)
Smerovaná evolúcia
5
8Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
4
9Indonesian (id)
Evolusi terarah
4
10Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Directed evolution" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
0
2Catalan (ca)
Evolució dirigida
0
3German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
0
4English (en)
Directed evolution
0
5Spanish (es)
Evolución dirigida
0
6Persian (fa)
فرگشت جهت‌دار
0
7French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
0
8Galician (gl)
Evolución dirixida
0
9Indonesian (id)
Evolusi terarah
0
10Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Directed evolution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Directed evolution
118
2German (de)
Gerichtete Evolution
34
3Galician (gl)
Evolución dirixida
19
4Spanish (es)
Evolución dirigida
15
5Arabic (ar)
تطور موجه
13
6French (fr)
Évolution dirigée
13
7Catalan (ca)
Evolució dirigida
5
8Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş evrim
5
9Indonesian (id)
Evolusi terarah
3
10Simple English (simple)
Directed evolution
3
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تطور موجه
caCatalan
Evolució dirigida
deGerman
Gerichtete Evolution
enEnglish
Directed evolution
esSpanish
Evolución dirigida
faPersian
فرگشت جهت‌دار
frFrench
Évolution dirigée
glGalician
Evolución dirixida
idIndonesian
Evolusi terarah
simpleSimple English
Directed evolution
skSlovak
Smerovaná evolúcia
trTurkish
Yönlendirilmiş evrim

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35453
10.2018
Global:
#63569
10.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7737
10.2018
Global:
#25977
10.2018

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Directed evolution from Wikipedia articles about Frances Arnold, Protein engineering, List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Directed evolution and Xenobiology. Whereas reading the article about Directed evolution people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Spiegelmans Monster, Protein engineering, Frances Arnold, Directed evolution and Rational design.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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