Genetic drift

Genetic drift - variation in the relative frequency of different genotypes in a small population. Article “Genetic drift” in English Wikipedia has 80 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 references and 19 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Genetic drift”, its content was written by 262 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 773 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4722 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #119 in May 2003
• Global: #919 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16224 in February 2009
• Global: #16681 in February 2009

There are 47 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	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		87.5984
2	Turkish (tr) Genetik sürüklenme		85.025
3	English (en) Genetic drift		79.9977
4	Thai (th) การเปลี่ยนความถี่ยีนอย่างไม่เจาะจง		78.1133
5	Estonian (et) Geenitriiv		76.3955
6	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		54.3291
7	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		49.8884
8	Indonesian (id) Hanyutan genetik		37.067
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phiêu bạt di truyền		36.8364
10	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		31.8786

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Genetic drift" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Genetic drift		4 963 897
2	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		1 717 659
3	German (de) Gendrift		734 323
4	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		538 133
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		517 477
6	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		382 405
7	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		312 730
8	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		281 742
9	Polish (pl) Dryf genetyczny		263 070
10	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		262 428

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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 "Genetic drift" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Genetic drift		8 476
2	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		1 218
3	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		1 033
4	German (de) Gendrift		935
5	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		879
6	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		793
7	French (fr) Dérive génétique		618
8	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		450
9	Simple English (simple) Genetic drift		420
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phiêu bạt di truyền		324

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Genetic drift		262
2	French (fr) Dérive génétique		86
3	German (de) Gendrift		83
4	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		62
5	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		54
6	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		47
7	Hebrew (he) סחף גנטי		46
8	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		34
9	Dutch (nl) Genetische drift		33
10	Norwegian (no) Genetisk drift		30

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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 "Genetic drift" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Genetic drift		1
2	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		0
3	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Генетичен дрейф		0
5	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		0
6	Czech (cs) Genetický drift		0
7	Danish (da) Genetisk drift		0
8	German (de) Gendrift		0
9	Greek (el) Γενετική παρέκκλιση		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Genetika drivo		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 "Genetic drift" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Genetic drift		773
2	Turkish (tr) Genetik sürüklenme		389
3	Persian (fa) رانش ژن		303
4	French (fr) Dérive génétique		224
5	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		224
6	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		204
7	Indonesian (id) Hanyutan genetik		180
8	Ukrainian (uk) Генетичний дрейф		174
9	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		169
10	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		149

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic انحراف وراثي
be	Belarusian Генетычны дрэйф
bg	Bulgarian Генетичен дрейф
ca	Catalan Deriva genètica
cs	Czech Genetický drift
da	Danish Genetisk drift
de	German Gendrift
el	Greek Γενετική παρέκκλιση
en	English Genetic drift
eo	Esperanto Genetika drivo
es	Spanish Deriva genética
et	Estonian Geenitriiv
eu	Basque Jito genetiko
fa	Persian رانش ژن
fi	Finnish Geneettinen ajautuminen
fr	French Dérive génétique
gl	Galician Deriva xenética
he	Hebrew סחף גנטי
hi	Hindi आनुवंशिक च्युति
hr	Croatian Genski pomak
hu	Hungarian Genetikai sodródás
hy	Armenian Գեների դրեյֆ
id	Indonesian Hanyutan genetik
it	Italian Deriva genetica
ja	Japanese 遺伝的浮動
ka	Georgian გენების დრეიფი
ko	Korean 유전적 부동
lt	Lithuanian Genų dreifas
ms	Malay Hanyutan genetik
nl	Dutch Genetische drift
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Gendrift
no	Norwegian Genetisk drift
pl	Polish Dryf genetyczny
pt	Portuguese Deriva genética
ro	Romanian Derivă genetică
ru	Russian Дрейф генов
sh	Serbo-Croatian Genetički drift
simple	Simple English Genetic drift
sl	Slovenian Genetski zdrs
sr	Serbian Генетички дрифт
sv	Swedish Genetisk drift
th	Thai การเปลี่ยนความถี่ยีนอย่างไม่เจาะจง
tr	Turkish Genetik sürüklenme
uk	Ukrainian Генетичний дрейф
uz	Uzbek Genetik dreyf
vi	Vietnamese Phiêu bạt di truyền
zh	Chinese 遗传漂变

Best Rank

English: #16224 02.2009

Global: #16681 02.2009

Best Rank

English: #119 05.2003

Global: #919 05.2003

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