Fish scale

Fish scale - small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. Article “Fish scale” in English Wikipedia has 89.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 103 references and 20 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 “Fish scale” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fish scale”, its content was written by 167 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1212 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2572 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19745 in September 2021
• Global: #40546 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45611 in September 2014
• Global: #74451 in September 2014

There are 15 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) Fish scale		89.3111
2	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		63.0633
3	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		48.9156
4	Catalan (ca) Escata de peix		48.2781
5	Polish (pl) Łuski (ryby)		45.7944
6	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		40.1293
7	Estonian (et) Kalasoomused		38.0097
8	Galician (gl) Escama de peixe		37.6855
9	Chinese (zh) 鱼鳞		27.5914
10	Arabic (ar) حرشف السمك		23.0918

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fish scale		2 352 923
2	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		431 800
3	Polish (pl) Łuski (ryby)		229 195
4	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		147 681
5	Persian (fa) فلس ماهی		45 710
6	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		44 305
7	Turkish (tr) Balık pulu		38 547
8	Slovak (sk) Šupina (ryby)		27 074
9	Chinese (zh) 鱼鳞		23 678
10	Arabic (ar) حرشف السمك		18 687

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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 "Fish scale" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fish scale		9 670
2	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		738
3	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		537
4	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		482
5	Chinese (zh) 鱼鳞		393
6	Polish (pl) Łuski (ryby)		308
7	Arabic (ar) حرشف السمك		125
8	Turkish (tr) Balık pulu		123
9	Vietnamese (vi) Vảy cá		104
10	Catalan (ca) Escata de peix		47

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fish scale		167
2	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		30
3	Polish (pl) Łuski (ryby)		17
4	Turkish (tr) Balık pulu		16
5	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		15
6	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		10
7	Catalan (ca) Escata de peix		8
8	Slovak (sk) Šupina (ryby)		8
9	Estonian (et) Kalasoomused		6
10	Persian (fa) فلس ماهی		6

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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 "Fish scale" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fish scale		2
2	Arabic (ar) حرشف السمك		0
3	Catalan (ca) Escata de peix		0
4	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		0
5	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		0
6	Estonian (et) Kalasoomused		0
7	Persian (fa) فلس ماهی		0
8	Galician (gl) Escama de peixe		0
9	Indonesian (id) Sisik ikan		0
10	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		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 "Fish scale" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fish scale		1 212
2	Polish (pl) Łuski (ryby)		451
3	Vietnamese (vi) Vảy cá		278
4	Czech (cs) Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)		202
5	Persian (fa) فلس ماهی		97
6	Galician (gl) Escama de peixe		97
7	Arabic (ar) حرشف السمك		67
8	Spanish (es) Escama de pez		35
9	Turkish (tr) Balık pulu		30
10	Japanese (ja) 魚の鱗		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرشف السمك
ca	Catalan Escata de peix
cs	Czech Šupina (rybovití obratlovci)
en	English Fish scale
es	Spanish Escama de pez
et	Estonian Kalasoomused
fa	Persian فلس ماهی
gl	Galician Escama de peixe
id	Indonesian Sisik ikan
ja	Japanese 魚の鱗
pl	Polish Łuski (ryby)
sk	Slovak Šupina (ryby)
tr	Turkish Balık pulu
vi	Vietnamese Vảy cá
zh	Chinese 鱼鳞

Best Rank

English: #45611 09.2014

Global: #74451 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #19745 09.2021

Global: #40546 08.2019

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