Gamma function

Quality:

Gamma function - extension of the factorial function, with its argument shifted down by 1, to real and complex numbers. Article "Gamma function" in English Wikipedia has 81.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 85 references and 36 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 "Gamma function" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Gamma function", its content was written by 477 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1647 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 412 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3324 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15 in June 2001
• Global: #19 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4822 in December 2018
• Global: #7260 in December 2018

There are 48 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) Gamma function		81.6342
2	German (de) Gammafunktion		69.6856
3	Catalan (ca) Funció gamma		67.2437
4	Estonian (et) Gammafunktsioon		48.6117
5	Polish (pl) Funkcja Γ		45.7668
6	Malay (ms) Fungsi gamma		42.9695
7	Turkish (tr) Gama fonksiyonu		41.7399
8	Ukrainian (uk) Гамма-функція		40.3774
9	Chinese (zh) Γ函数		39.7152
10	Bulgarian (bg) Гама-функция		36.3055

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gamma function		11 752 275
2	German (de) Gammafunktion		1 252 217
3	Spanish (es) Función gamma		1 232 503
4	Japanese (ja) ガンマ関数		1 219 608
5	Russian (ru) Гамма-функция		1 164 709
6	French (fr) Fonction gamma		1 086 747
7	Chinese (zh) Γ函数		778 655
8	Italian (it) Funzione Gamma		565 221
9	Polish (pl) Funkcja Γ		346 595
10	Portuguese (pt) Função gama		270 975

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gamma function		47 275
2	Japanese (ja) ガンマ関数		5 451
3	Russian (ru) Гамма-функция		5 226
4	French (fr) Fonction gamma		4 129
5	German (de) Gammafunktion		3 868
6	Spanish (es) Función gamma		3 437
7	Chinese (zh) Γ函数		2 886
8	Italian (it) Funzione Gamma		2 302
9	Polish (pl) Funkcja Γ		1 396
10	Korean (ko) 감마 함수		1 328

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gamma function		477
2	German (de) Gammafunktion		140
3	French (fr) Fonction gamma		117
4	Russian (ru) Гамма-функция		96
5	Italian (it) Funzione Gamma		79
6	Japanese (ja) ガンマ関数		75
7	Dutch (nl) Gammafunctie		58
8	Chinese (zh) Γ函数		53
9	Spanish (es) Función gamma		51
10	Polish (pl) Funkcja Γ		45

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gamma function		5
2	Persian (fa) تابع گاما		1
3	French (fr) Fonction gamma		1
4	Croatian (hr) Gama-funkcija		1
5	Japanese (ja) ガンマ関数		1
6	Serbian (sr) Гама-функција		1
7	Thai (th) ฟังก์ชันแกมมา		1
8	Chinese (zh) Γ函数		1
9	Arabic (ar) دالة غاما		0
10	Belarusian (be) Гама-функцыя		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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