Japanese raccoon dog

Nyctereutes viverrinus - species of mammal. This taxon is the 1628^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 585^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Japanese raccoon dog” in English Wikipedia has 57.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.01 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.

In June 2025 the article “Japanese raccoon dog” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Japanese raccoon dog”, its content was written by 258 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 349 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Nyctereutes viverrinus is on the 585^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1628^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 647 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10478 in August 2022
• Global: #20622 in June 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5701 in January 2016
• Global: #14840 in March 2023

There are 17 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) Japanese raccoon dog		57.1979
2	French (fr) Nyctereutes viverrinus		55.4652
3	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		32.6741
4	Ukrainian (uk) Єнот японський		31.677
5	Thai (th) จิ้งจอกแร็กคูนญี่ปุ่น		24.6552
6	Catalan (ca) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		24.54
7	Bulgarian (bg) Тануки		23.7449
8	Turkish (tr) Japon rakun köpeği		20.564
9	Dutch (nl) Japanse wasbeerhond		15.9606
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		14.883

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Japanese raccoon dog" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese raccoon dog		6 267 480
2	Portuguese (pt) Cão-guaxinim japonês		198 638
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		45 334
4	Russian (ru) Японская енотовидная собака		34 039
5	Arabic (ar) كلب راكوني ياباني		18 874
6	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		18 209
7	Korean (ko) 일본너구리		10 837
8	Persian (fa) سگ راکونی ژاپنی		10 398
9	Thai (th) จิ้งจอกแร็กคูนญี่ปุ่น		7 382
10	Hebrew (he) שועל-רקון יפני		4 676

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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 "Japanese raccoon dog" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese raccoon dog		48 123
2	Portuguese (pt) Cão-guaxinim japonês		752
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		469
4	Russian (ru) Японская енотовидная собака		301
5	Dutch (nl) Japanse wasbeerhond		286
6	Korean (ko) 일본너구리		231
7	French (fr) Nyctereutes viverrinus		223
8	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		200
9	Arabic (ar) كلب راكوني ياباني		163
10	Thai (th) จิ้งจอกแร็กคูนญี่ปุ่น		161

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese raccoon dog		258
2	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		15
3	Portuguese (pt) Cão-guaxinim japonês		14
4	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		12
5	Arabic (ar) كلب راكوني ياباني		7
6	Russian (ru) Японская енотовидная собака		7
7	Galician (gl) Can mapache		6
8	Persian (fa) سگ راکونی ژاپنی		5
9	Hebrew (he) שועל-רקון יפני		5
10	French (fr) Nyctereutes viverrinus		4

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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 "Japanese raccoon dog" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Nyctereutes viverrinus		8
2	English (en) Japanese raccoon dog		6
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		1
4	Arabic (ar) كلب راكوني ياباني		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Тануки		0
6	Catalan (ca) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		0
7	Persian (fa) سگ راکونی ژاپنی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		0
9	Galician (gl) Can mapache		0
10	Hebrew (he) שועל-רקון יפני		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 "Japanese raccoon dog" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Japanese raccoon dog		647
2	Korean (ko) 일본너구리		217
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng chó Nhật Bản		166
4	Persian (fa) سگ راکونی ژاپنی		107
5	Hebrew (he) שועל-רקון יפני		58
6	Dutch (nl) Japanse wasbeerhond		58
7	Ukrainian (uk) Єнот японський		40
8	Portuguese (pt) Cão-guaxinim japonês		26
9	French (fr) Nyctereutes viverrinus		16
10	Finnish (fi) Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كلب راكوني ياباني
bg	Bulgarian Тануки
ca	Catalan Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus
en	English Japanese raccoon dog
fa	Persian سگ راکونی ژاپنی
fi	Finnish Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus
fr	French Nyctereutes viverrinus
gl	Galician Can mapache
he	Hebrew שועל-רקון יפני
ko	Korean 일본너구리
nl	Dutch Japanse wasbeerhond
pt	Portuguese Cão-guaxinim japonês
ru	Russian Японская енотовидная собака
th	Thai จิ้งจอกแร็กคูนญี่ปุ่น
tr	Turkish Japon rakun köpeği
uk	Ukrainian Єнот японський
vi	Vietnamese Lửng chó Nhật Bản

Best Rank

English: #5701 01.2016

Global: #14840 03.2023

Best Rank

English: #10478 08.2022

Global: #20622 06.2025

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