Head of state

Quality:

Head of state - official who holds the highest-ranked protocol position in a sovereign state. Article “Head of state” in English Wikipedia has 66.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 155 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 22.27 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8354^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5794^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6018^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7837^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Head of state” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (6018^th place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (7837^th place).

Since the creation of article “Head of state”, its content was written by 919 registered users of English Wikipedia (8354^th place) and edited by 3353 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5794^th place).

The article is cited 4546 times in English Wikipedia (5690^th place) and cited 38851 times in all languages (4340^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #280 in April 2003
• Global: #652 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7204 in September 2022
• Global: #5063 in September 2022

There are 53 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	English (en) Head of state		66.8147
2	Romanian (ro) Șef de stat		57.255
3	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		56.3991
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên thủ quốc gia		55.7832
5	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		42.5675
6	Japanese (ja) 元首		39.8923
7	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		37.1587
8	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		35.0597
9	Hindi (hi) राष्ट्रप्रमुख		33.3331
10	Thai (th) ประมุขแห่งรัฐ		32.0413

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Head of state		8 698 843
2	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		2 175 906
3	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		1 655 747
4	Japanese (ja) 元首		1 409 618
5	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		941 692
6	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		878 820
7	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		792 429
8	French (fr) Chef d'État		785 194
9	Russian (ru) Глава государства		648 799
10	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		567 000

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) Head of state		24 747
2	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		4 255
3	Japanese (ja) 元首		3 602
4	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		2 665
5	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		2 059
6	Russian (ru) Глава государства		1 917
7	Persian (fa) رئیس کشور		1 889
8	French (fr) Chef d'État		1 773
9	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		1 231
10	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		936

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Head of state		919
2	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		207
3	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		200
4	Japanese (ja) 元首		183
5	French (fr) Chef d'État		159
6	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		142
7	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		120
8	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		107
9	Dutch (nl) Staatshoofd		102
10	Hebrew (he) ראש מדינה		88

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) Head of state		10
2	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət başçısı		2
3	Persian (fa) رئیس کشور		2
4	Thai (th) ประมุขแห่งรัฐ		2
5	Arabic (ar) رأس الدولة		1
6	Belarusian (be) Кіраўнік дзяржавы		1
7	Catalan (ca) Cap d'estat		1
8	Hebrew (he) ראש מדינה		1
9	Indonesian (id) Kepala negara		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Голова держави		1

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

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