Eel

Anguilliformes - order of fishes. This taxon is the 757^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 387^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Eel” in English Wikipedia has 78 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 57 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.

In June 2025 the article “Eel” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Eel”, its content was written by 580 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1690 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Anguilliformes is on the 387^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 757^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2846 times in English Wikipedia and cited 13658 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #380 in April 2002
• Global: #531 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10141 in August 2021
• Global: #15400 in August 2021

There are 52 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) Eel		77.9716
2	Czech (cs) Holobřiší		60.6096
3	Esperanto (eo) Angiloformaj		55.8673
4	Latin (la) Anguilliformes		52.1933
5	Chinese (zh) 鰻		51.7465
6	Catalan (ca) Anguil·liformes		43.1514
7	Polish (pl) Węgorzokształtne		41.3443
8	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		39.3389
9	Thai (th) อันดับปลาไหล		37.2765
10	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		36.1285

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eel		8 498 705
2	Chinese (zh) 鰻		761 106
3	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		341 318
4	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		307 475
5	German (de) Aalartige		287 350
6	Arabic (ar) أنقليس		253 582
7	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		206 758
8	Russian (ru) Угреобразные		204 229
9	Indonesian (id) Sidat		202 920
10	Greek (el) Χέλι		173 270

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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 "Eel" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eel		27 059
2	Chinese (zh) 鰻		3 855
3	Indonesian (id) Sidat		1 469
4	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		1 262
5	Turkish (tr) Yılan balığı		1 064
6	Russian (ru) Угреобразные		1 034
7	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		988
8	German (de) Aalartige		875
9	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		849
10	Greek (el) Χέλι		837

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eel		580
2	German (de) Aalartige		106
3	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		75
4	French (fr) Anguilliformes		67
5	Chinese (zh) 鰻		61
6	Dutch (nl) Palingachtigen		49
7	Danish (da) Ålefisk		44
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá chình		42
9	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		38
10	Arabic (ar) أنقليس		37

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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 "Eel" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eel		1
2	Uzbek (uz) Ugorsimonlar		1
3	Chinese (zh) 鰻		1
4	Arabic (ar) أنقليس		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Angvilkimilər		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вугрападобныя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Змиоркоподобни		0
8	Catalan (ca) Anguil·liformes		0
9	Czech (cs) Holobřiší		0
10	Danish (da) Ålefisk		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 "Eel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Eel		2 846
2	Chinese (zh) 鰻		1 378
3	Dutch (nl) Palingachtigen		1 121
4	Basque (eu) Anguilliformes		1 038
5	Swedish (sv) Ålartade fiskar		1 020
6	Catalan (ca) Anguil·liformes		730
7	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		478
8	Korean (ko) 장어		470
9	Polish (pl) Węgorzokształtne		316
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá chình		315

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أنقليس
az	Azerbaijani Angvilkimilər
be	Belarusian Вугрападобныя
bg	Bulgarian Змиоркоподобни
ca	Catalan Anguil·liformes
cs	Czech Holobřiší
da	Danish Ålefisk
de	German Aalartige
el	Greek Χέλι
en	English Eel
eo	Esperanto Angiloformaj
es	Spanish Anguilliformes
et	Estonian Angerjalised
eu	Basque Anguilliformes
fa	Persian مارماهی‌سانان
fi	Finnish Ankeriaskalat
fr	French Anguilliformes
gl	Galician Angüiliformes
he	Hebrew צלופחאים
hi	Hindi सर्पमीन
hr	Croatian Jeguljke
hu	Hungarian Angolnaalakúak
hy	Armenian Օձաձկներ
id	Indonesian Sidat
it	Italian Anguilliformes
ja	Japanese ウナギ目
ka	Georgian გველთევზასნაირნი
kk	Kazakh Жыланбалықтәрізділер
ko	Korean 장어
la	Latin Anguilliformes
lt	Lithuanian Unguriažuvės
ms	Malay Belut
nl	Dutch Palingachtigen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Ålefisk
no	Norwegian Ålefisker
pl	Polish Węgorzokształtne
pt	Portuguese Anguilliformes
ro	Romanian Anghilă
ru	Russian Угреобразные
sh	Serbo-Croatian Jegulje
simple	Simple English Eel
sk	Slovak Úhorotvaré
sr	Serbian Anguilliformes
sv	Swedish Ålartade fiskar
ta	Tamil விலாங்கு
th	Thai อันดับปลาไหล
tr	Turkish Yılan balığı
uk	Ukrainian Вугроподібні
uz	Uzbek Ugorsimonlar
vi	Vietnamese Bộ Cá chình
zh	Chinese 鰻
zhminnan	Min Nan Môa

Best Rank

English: #10141 08.2021

Global: #15400 08.2021

Best Rank

English: #380 04.2002

Global: #531 04.2002

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