Founder effect

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Founder effect

Quality:

Founder effect - loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals. Article “Founder effect” in English Wikipedia has 54.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 9 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Founder effect”, its content was written by 221 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 651 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 367 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6510 in September 2003
  • Global: #10590 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #27566 in April 2008
  • Global: #38634 in April 2008

There are 33 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
1Basque (eu)
Fundatzaile efektua
56.9492
2English (en)
Founder effect
54.3183
3Hebrew (he)
אפקט המייסד
39.0549
4Chinese (zh)
奠基者效应
39.0346
5Portuguese (pt)
Efeito fundador
35.5358
6Belarusian (be)
Эфект заснавальніка
34.8509
7Galician (gl)
Efecto fundador
33.7169
8Indonesian (id)
Efek pendiri
31.8056
9Polish (pl)
Efekt założyciela
29.6815
10German (de)
Gründereffekt
28.1183
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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 "Founder effect" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Founder effect
3 093 768
2Spanish (es)
Efecto fundador
416 257
3German (de)
Gründereffekt
256 583
4Russian (ru)
Эффект основателя
186 658
5Japanese (ja)
創始者効果
150 282
6Italian (it)
Effetto del fondatore
140 422
7Polish (pl)
Efekt założyciela
135 273
8Portuguese (pt)
Efeito fundador
115 735
9Chinese (zh)
奠基者效应
113 696
10French (fr)
Effet fondateur
110 743
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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 "Founder effect" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Founder effect
8 615
2Russian (ru)
Эффект основателя
837
3German (de)
Gründereffekt
718
4Italian (it)
Effetto del fondatore
479
5Japanese (ja)
創始者効果
426
6Spanish (es)
Efecto fundador
400
7Chinese (zh)
奠基者效应
389
8French (fr)
Effet fondateur
300
9Polish (pl)
Efekt założyciela
175
10Swedish (sv)
Grundareffekt
171
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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 "Founder effect" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Founder effect
221
2German (de)
Gründereffekt
54
3Italian (it)
Effetto del fondatore
35
4Spanish (es)
Efecto fundador
28
5Dutch (nl)
Stichtereffect
28
6French (fr)
Effet fondateur
27
7Portuguese (pt)
Efeito fundador
26
8Polish (pl)
Efekt założyciela
24
9Chinese (zh)
奠基者效应
24
10Russian (ru)
Эффект основателя
20
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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 "Founder effect" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Founder effect
1
2Hebrew (he)
אפקט המייסד
1
3Korean (ko)
창시자 효과
1
4Arabic (ar)
تأثير المؤسس
0
5Belarusian (be)
Эфект заснавальніка
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Ефект на основаване
0
7Catalan (ca)
Efecte fundador
0
8Danish (da)
Grundlæggervirkning
0
9German (de)
Gründereffekt
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Fondefiko
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 "Founder effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Founder effect
367
2Russian (ru)
Эффект основателя
134
3Chinese (zh)
奠基者效应
111
4Polish (pl)
Efekt założyciela
94
5French (fr)
Effet fondateur
58
6Spanish (es)
Efecto fundador
56
7German (de)
Gründereffekt
55
8Portuguese (pt)
Efeito fundador
53
9Japanese (ja)
創始者効果
52
10Catalan (ca)
Efecte fundador
48
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تأثير المؤسس
beBelarusian
Эфект заснавальніка
bgBulgarian
Ефект на основаване
caCatalan
Efecte fundador
daDanish
Grundlæggervirkning
deGerman
Gründereffekt
enEnglish
Founder effect
eoEsperanto
Fondefiko
esSpanish
Efecto fundador
etEstonian
Rajajaefekt
euBasque
Fundatzaile efektua
faPersian
اثر بنیان‌گذار
fiFinnish
Perustajavaikutus
frFrench
Effet fondateur
glGalician
Efecto fundador
heHebrew
אפקט המייסד
huHungarian
Alapítói hatás
idIndonesian
Efek pendiri
itItalian
Effetto del fondatore
jaJapanese
創始者効果
koKorean
창시자 효과
ltLithuanian
Pradininko efektas
nlDutch
Stichtereffect
noNorwegian
Grunnleggereffekten
plPolish
Efekt założyciela
ptPortuguese
Efeito fundador
roRomanian
Efect de fondator
ruRussian
Эффект основателя
srSerbian
Ефекат оснивача
svSwedish
Grundareffekt
trTurkish
Kurucu etkisi
ukUkrainian
Ефект засновника
zhChinese
奠基者效应

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#27566
04.2008
Global:
#38634
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6510
09.2003
Global:
#10590
12.2009

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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