Empress dowager

Empress Dowager - mother or widow of an East Asian emperor. Article “Empress dowager” in English Wikipedia has 30.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.4 points.

This article has the best quality in Vietnamese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Empress dowager”, its content was written by 118 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 373 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 538 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2958 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2670 in December 2003
• Global: #8667 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #106916 in March 2011
• Global: #59099 in May 2019

There are 17 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	Vietnamese (vi) Hoàng thái hậu		37.8856
2	English (en) Empress dowager		30.6097
3	Polish (pl) Cesarzowa wdowa		30.0979
4	Catalan (ca) Emperadriu vídua		29.7135
5	Chinese (zh) 皇太后		29.5701
6	German (de) Kaiserinmutter		26.8878
7	Spanish (es) Emperatriz viuda		24.153
8	French (fr) Impératrice douairière		21.0506
9	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		18.3119
10	Korean (ko) 황태후		12.354

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Empress dowager		1 063 502
2	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		705 662
3	Chinese (zh) 皇太后		288 114
4	Vietnamese (vi) Hoàng thái hậu		184 679
5	Korean (ko) 황태후		49 623
6	Thai (th) ฮองไทเฮา		31 747
7	Polish (pl) Cesarzowa wdowa		31 344
8	French (fr) Impératrice douairière		25 294
9	Italian (it) Imperatrice vedova		23 593
10	German (de) Kaiserinmutter		19 730

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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 "Empress dowager" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Empress dowager		5 106
2	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		2 169
3	Chinese (zh) 皇太后		1 277
4	Vietnamese (vi) Hoàng thái hậu		796
5	French (fr) Impératrice douairière		266
6	Spanish (es) Emperatriz viuda		197
7	Italian (it) Imperatrice vedova		140
8	Thai (th) ฮองไทเฮา		130
9	Korean (ko) 황태후		97
10	Polish (pl) Cesarzowa wdowa		82

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Empress dowager		118
2	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		58
3	Chinese (zh) 皇太后		45
4	Vietnamese (vi) Hoàng thái hậu		39
5	German (de) Kaiserinmutter		19
6	Korean (ko) 황태후		18
7	Italian (it) Imperatrice vedova		16
8	Polish (pl) Cesarzowa wdowa		16
9	French (fr) Impératrice douairière		15
10	Thai (th) ฮองไทเฮา		8

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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 "Empress dowager" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		1
2	Arabic (ar) الإمبراطورة الأم		0
3	Catalan (ca) Emperadriu vídua		0
4	German (de) Kaiserinmutter		0
5	English (en) Empress dowager		0
6	Spanish (es) Emperatriz viuda		0
7	Persian (fa) ملکه مادر (بیولوژیک)		0
8	French (fr) Impératrice douairière		0
9	Indonesian (id) Janda permaisuri		0
10	Italian (it) Imperatrice vedova		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 "Empress dowager" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 皇太后		730
2	Chinese (zh) 皇太后		618
3	English (en) Empress dowager		538
4	Vietnamese (vi) Hoàng thái hậu		411
5	Korean (ko) 황태후		127
6	Polish (pl) Cesarzowa wdowa		127
7	Catalan (ca) Emperadriu vídua		62
8	Italian (it) Imperatrice vedova		52
9	Spanish (es) Emperatriz viuda		51
10	German (de) Kaiserinmutter		50

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الإمبراطورة الأم
ca	Catalan Emperadriu vídua
de	German Kaiserinmutter
en	English Empress dowager
es	Spanish Emperatriz viuda
fa	Persian ملکه مادر (بیولوژیک)
fr	French Impératrice douairière
id	Indonesian Janda permaisuri
it	Italian Imperatrice vedova
ja	Japanese 皇太后
ko	Korean 황태후
ms	Malay Maharani balu
pl	Polish Cesarzowa wdowa
sh	Serbo-Croatian Carica majka
th	Thai ฮองไทเฮา
vi	Vietnamese Hoàng thái hậu
zh	Chinese 皇太后

Best Rank

English: #106916 03.2011

Global: #59099 05.2019

Best Rank

English: #2670 12.2003

Global: #8667 12.2003

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