Directional selection

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Directional selection

Quality:

Directional selection - type of genetic selection favoring one extreme phenotype. Article “Directional selection” in English Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 17 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 “Directional selection”, its content was written by 106 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 194 times in English Wikipedia and cited 558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3976 in April 2004
  • Global: #16326 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #55176 in April 2013
  • Global: #70294 in April 2013

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Directional selection
66.4195
2Portuguese (pt)
Seleção direcional
46.652
3Vietnamese (vi)
Chọn lọc định hướng
34.9869
4Czech (cs)
Usměrňující selekce
26.5492
5Galician (gl)
Selección direccional
25.6238
6Polish (pl)
Dobór kierunkowy
21.8086
7Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
19.9298
8Estonian (et)
Suunav valik
15.7219
9Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اتجاهي
14.6073
10Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
12.0731
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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 "Directional selection" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directional selection
1 544 058
2Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
488 132
3Portuguese (pt)
Seleção direcional
129 083
4Polish (pl)
Dobór kierunkowy
86 397
5Ukrainian (uk)
Рушійний добір
74 671
6Chinese (zh)
定向選擇
51 708
7Italian (it)
Selezione direzionale
39 696
8Bulgarian (bg)
Движещ естествен отбор
10 687
9Estonian (et)
Suunav valik
8 574
10Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
7 597
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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 "Directional selection" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directional selection
2 070
2Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
134
3Chinese (zh)
定向選擇
103
4Portuguese (pt)
Seleção direcional
84
5Italian (it)
Selezione direzionale
62
6Polish (pl)
Dobór kierunkowy
55
7Bulgarian (bg)
Движещ естествен отбор
35
8Persian (fa)
انتخاب هدایتی
25
9Hungarian (hu)
Direkcionális szelekció
23
10Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
22
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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 "Directional selection" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Directional selection
106
2Italian (it)
Selezione direzionale
21
3Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
19
4Portuguese (pt)
Seleção direcional
14
5Polish (pl)
Dobór kierunkowy
8
6Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
8
7Ukrainian (uk)
Рушійний добір
8
8Vietnamese (vi)
Chọn lọc định hướng
6
9Czech (cs)
Usměrňující selekce
5
10Persian (fa)
انتخاب هدایتی
5
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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 "Directional selection" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اتجاهي
0
2Bulgarian (bg)
Движещ естествен отбор
0
3Czech (cs)
Usměrňující selekce
0
4English (en)
Directional selection
0
5Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
0
6Estonian (et)
Suunav valik
0
7Persian (fa)
انتخاب هدایتی
0
8Galician (gl)
Selección direccional
0
9Hungarian (hu)
Direkcionális szelekció
0
10Italian (it)
Selezione direzionale
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 "Directional selection" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Directional selection
194
2Ukrainian (uk)
Рушійний добір
97
3Polish (pl)
Dobór kierunkowy
82
4Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اتجاهي
35
5Spanish (es)
Selección direccional
25
6Turkish (tr)
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
21
7Estonian (et)
Suunav valik
20
8Portuguese (pt)
Seleção direcional
17
9Persian (fa)
انتخاب هدایتی
14
10Galician (gl)
Selección direccional
14
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اصطفاء اتجاهي
bgBulgarian
Движещ естествен отбор
csCzech
Usměrňující selekce
enEnglish
Directional selection
esSpanish
Selección direccional
etEstonian
Suunav valik
faPersian
انتخاب هدایتی
glGalician
Selección direccional
huHungarian
Direkcionális szelekció
itItalian
Selezione direzionale
plPolish
Dobór kierunkowy
ptPortuguese
Seleção direcional
trTurkish
Yönlendirilmiş seçilim
ukUkrainian
Рушійний добір
viVietnamese
Chọn lọc định hướng
zhChinese
定向選擇

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#55176
04.2013
Global:
#70294
04.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3976
04.2004
Global:
#16326
04.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Directional selection from Wikipedia articles about Natural selection, Dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Human, Negrito and Early modern human. Whereas reading the article about Directional selection people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Disruptive selection, Stabilizing selection, Natural selection, Allele frequency and Phenotype.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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