Mark and recapture

Mark and recapture - ecological sampling method. Article “Mark and recapture” in English Wikipedia has 61 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.21 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.

Since the creation of article “Mark and recapture”, its content was written by 130 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 244 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 154 times in English Wikipedia and cited 292 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21227 in September 2016
• Global: #22883 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #95058 in October 2014
• Global: #156051 in October 2013

There are 14 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) Mark and recapture		60.9683
2	Slovenian (sl) Metoda lova, označevanja in ponovnega ulova		48.1378
3	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		47.3007
4	Galician (gl) Marcaxe e recaptura		46.9711
5	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		39.7459
6	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		29.8825
7	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		29.5823
8	Arabic (ar) تثبيت العلامة وإعادة الأسر		21.5332
9	Ukrainian (uk) Зловити/повторити		17.2602
10	German (de) Rückfangmethode		14.922

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mark and recapture" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mark and recapture		1 097 032
2	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		70 842
3	German (de) Rückfangmethode		60 172
4	French (fr) Capture-marquage-recapture		53 416
5	Chinese (zh) 标志重捕法		23 286
6	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		21 480
7	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		11 248
8	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		7 895
9	Swedish (sv) Petersens formel		5 205
10	Finnish (fi) Pyynti-takaisinpyyntimenetelmä		4 792

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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 "Mark and recapture" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mark and recapture		2 068
2	Chinese (zh) 标志重捕法		461
3	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		220
4	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		146
5	French (fr) Capture-marquage-recapture		143
6	German (de) Rückfangmethode		125
7	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		81
8	Galician (gl) Marcaxe e recaptura		45
9	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		39
10	Finnish (fi) Pyynti-takaisinpyyntimenetelmä		19

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mark and recapture		130
2	German (de) Rückfangmethode		34
3	French (fr) Capture-marquage-recapture		20
4	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		9
5	Chinese (zh) 标志重捕法		9
6	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		8
7	Swedish (sv) Petersens formel		7
8	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		6
9	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		6
10	Arabic (ar) تثبيت العلامة وإعادة الأسر		5

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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 "Mark and recapture" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تثبيت العلامة وإعادة الأسر		0
2	German (de) Rückfangmethode		0
3	English (en) Mark and recapture		0
4	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		0
5	Finnish (fi) Pyynti-takaisinpyyntimenetelmä		0
6	French (fr) Capture-marquage-recapture		0
7	Galician (gl) Marcaxe e recaptura		0
8	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		0
9	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		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 "Mark and recapture" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mark and recapture		154
2	French (fr) Capture-marquage-recapture		46
3	Galician (gl) Marcaxe e recaptura		23
4	Portuguese (pt) Método captura-recaptura		16
5	German (de) Rückfangmethode		12
6	Japanese (ja) 標識再捕獲法		11
7	Polish (pl) Metoda wielokrotnych złowień		11
8	Chinese (zh) 标志重捕法		6
9	Spanish (es) Marcar y recuperar		5
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зловити/повторити		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تثبيت العلامة وإعادة الأسر
de	German Rückfangmethode
en	English Mark and recapture
es	Spanish Marcar y recuperar
fi	Finnish Pyynti-takaisinpyyntimenetelmä
fr	French Capture-marquage-recapture
gl	Galician Marcaxe e recaptura
ja	Japanese 標識再捕獲法
pl	Polish Metoda wielokrotnych złowień
pt	Portuguese Método captura-recaptura
sl	Slovenian Metoda lova, označevanja in ponovnega ulova
sv	Swedish Petersens formel
uk	Ukrainian Зловити/повторити
zh	Chinese 标志重捕法

Best Rank

English: #95058 10.2014

Global: #156051 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #21227 09.2016

Global: #22883 02.2005

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