Genetic drift

Genetic drift - variation in the relative frequency of different genotypes in a small population. Article “Genetic drift” in English Wikipedia has 81.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 77 references and 20 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Genetic drift” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Genetic drift”, its content was written by 267 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1136 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 787 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4847 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): #16333 in February 2009
• Global: #16641 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, 2026 (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		87.5375
2	Turkish (tr) Genetik sürüklenme		85.1231
3	English (en) Genetic drift		81.1018
4	Estonian (et) Geenitriiv		75.5055
5	Thai (th) การเปลี่ยนความถี่ยีนอย่างไม่เจาะจง		72.1897
6	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		54.4507
7	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		49.7567
8	Vietnamese (vi) Phiêu bạt di truyền		36.6924
9	Indonesian (id) Hanyutan genetik		35.7864
10	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		31.9566

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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		5 045 462
2	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		1 727 221
3	German (de) Gendrift		748 334
4	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		600 075
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		528 194
6	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		386 024
7	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		317 095
8	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		290 273
9	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		272 429
10	Polish (pl) Dryf genetyczny		266 844

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Genetic drift		5 004
2	German (de) Gendrift		888
3	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		732
4	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		669
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		548
6	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		522
7	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		434
8	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		277
9	Korean (ko) 유전적 부동		228
10	Dutch (nl) Genetische drift		202

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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		267
2	French (fr) Dérive génétique		88
3	German (de) Gendrift		83
4	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		63
5	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		55
6	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		49
7	Hebrew (he) סחף גנטי		47
8	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		34
9	Dutch (nl) Genetische drift		33
10	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		26

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		2
2	English (en) Genetic drift		2
3	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		1
4	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		1
5	Estonian (et) Geenitriiv		1
6	Basque (eu) Jito genetiko		1
7	Serbian (sr) Генетички дрифт		1
8	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Генетичен дрейф		0
10	Czech (cs) Genetický drift		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		787
2	Turkish (tr) Genetik sürüklenme		390
3	Persian (fa) رانش ژن		318
4	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		239
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		229
6	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		213
7	Indonesian (id) Hanyutan genetik		184
8	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		179
9	Ukrainian (uk) Генетичний дрейф		176
10	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		150

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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: #16333 02.2009

Global: #16641 02.2009

Best Rank

English: #119 05.2003

Global: #919 05.2003

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