Elephant seal

Elephant seal - genus of mammals. This taxon is the 1066^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 905^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article "Elephant seal" in English Wikipedia has 88.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 94 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Elephant seal" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Elephant seal", its content was written by 482 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1266 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Elephant seal is on the 905^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1066^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 863 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6290 in August 2006
• Global: #5614 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25828 in January 2013
• Global: #27892 in May 2025

There are 44 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) Elephant seal		88.0647
2	Greek (el) Θαλάσσιος ελέφαντας		68.735
3	Malay (ms) Gajah laut		53.8426
4	Tamil (ta) கடல் யானை		52.7365
5	Polish (pl) Mirunga		48.6051
6	Catalan (ca) Elefant marí		46.3279
7	Chinese (zh) 象海豹属		42.6633
8	German (de) See-Elefanten		38.2215
9	Arabic (ar) فيل البحر		32.4174
10	Swedish (sv) Sjöelefanter		30.9584

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant seal		4 389 178
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		959 974
3	Spanish (es) Mirounga		771 732
4	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		635 342
5	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		622 841
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		311 941
7	Polish (pl) Mirunga		311 727
8	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-marinho		284 505
9	Japanese (ja) ゾウアザラシ属		205 059
10	Dutch (nl) Zeeolifanten		195 721

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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 "Elephant seal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant seal		22 304
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		4 241
3	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		3 221
4	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		3 059
5	Spanish (es) Mirounga		2 978
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		1 580
7	Polish (pl) Mirunga		1 131
8	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-marinho		1 115
9	Japanese (ja) ゾウアザラシ属		1 004
10	Chinese (zh) 象海豹属		729

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant seal		482
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		119
3	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		73
4	Dutch (nl) Zeeolifanten		58
5	Spanish (es) Mirounga		52
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		47
7	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		41
8	Hebrew (he) פיל ים		37
9	Swedish (sv) Sjöelefanter		31
10	Hungarian (hu) Elefántfóka		27

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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 "Elephant seal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant seal		4
2	Catalan (ca) Elefant marí		1
3	German (de) See-Elefanten		1
4	Polish (pl) Mirunga		1
5	Simple English (simple) Elephant seal		1
6	Arabic (ar) فيل البحر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dəniz fili		0
8	Belarusian (be) Марскія сланы		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Морски слонове		0
10	Czech (cs) Rypouš		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 "Elephant seal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Elephant seal		863
2	Catalan (ca) Elefant marí		468
3	Bulgarian (bg) Морски слонове		360
4	Arabic (ar) فيل البحر		338
5	Indonesian (id) Anjing laut gajah		265
6	Chinese (zh) 象海豹属		192
7	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-marinho		153
8	Esperanto (eo) Marelefanto		123
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chi Hải tượng		120
10	German (de) See-Elefanten		108

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فيل البحر
az	Azerbaijani Dəniz fili
be	Belarusian Марскія сланы
bg	Bulgarian Морски слонове
ca	Catalan Elefant marí
cs	Czech Rypouš
da	Danish Søelefanter
de	German See-Elefanten
el	Greek Θαλάσσιος ελέφαντας
en	English Elephant seal
eo	Esperanto Marelefanto
es	Spanish Mirounga
eu	Basque Itsas elefante
fa	Persian فک فیلی
fi	Finnish Merinorsut
fr	French Éléphant de mer
gl	Galician Elefante mariño
he	Hebrew פיל ים
hu	Hungarian Elefántfóka
hy	Armenian Ծովափղեր
id	Indonesian Anjing laut gajah
it	Italian Mirounga
ja	Japanese ゾウアザラシ属
ka	Georgian ზღვის სპილო
kk	Kazakh Теңіз пілдері
ko	Korean 코끼리물범
ms	Malay Gajah laut
nl	Dutch Zeeolifanten
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Sjøelefant
no	Norwegian Sjøelefanter
pl	Polish Mirunga
pt	Portuguese Elefante-marinho
ru	Russian Морские слоны
sh	Serbo-Croatian Morski slonovi
simple	Simple English Elephant seal
sr	Serbian Морски слонови
sv	Swedish Sjöelefanter
ta	Tamil கடல் யானை
th	Thai แมวน้ำช้าง
tr	Turkish Deniz fili
uk	Ukrainian Морський слон
uz	Uzbek Dengiz fili
vi	Vietnamese Chi Hải tượng
zh	Chinese 象海豹属

Best Rank

English: #25828 01.2013

Global: #27892 05.2025

Best Rank

English: #6290 08.2006

Global: #5614 01.2013

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