Ming (clam)

Ming - clam; oldest animal ever discovered. Article “Ming (clam)” in English Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ming (clam)”, its content was written by 99 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in English Wikipedia and cited 66 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2076 in November 2013
• Global: #1998 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24543 in July 2014
• Global: #48179 in November 2013

There are 15 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) 明 (蛤蜊)		39.0949
2	English (en) Ming (clam)		34.9826
3	Danish (da) Ming (musling)		28.7935
4	Polish (pl) Ming (małż)		27.4332
5	Persian (fa) مینگ (صدف)		27.3282
6	Russian (ru) Мин (моллюск)		27.048
7	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		26.5492
8	Armenian (hy) Մին (փափկամարմին)		25.9077
9	Portuguese (pt) Ming (molusco)		25.7875
10	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		25.6872

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ming (clam)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ming (clam)		1 084 837
2	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		114 958
3	Chinese (zh) 明 (蛤蜊)		74 180
4	German (de) Ming (Muschel)		59 994
5	Portuguese (pt) Ming (molusco)		45 732
6	French (fr) Ming (coquillage)		45 200
7	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		43 517
8	Russian (ru) Мин (моллюск)		39 373
9	Dutch (nl) Ming de Noordkromp		34 974
10	Polish (pl) Ming (małż)		24 919

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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 "Ming (clam)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ming (clam)		7 906
2	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		880
3	Chinese (zh) 明 (蛤蜊)		716
4	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		620
5	German (de) Ming (Muschel)		452
6	Japanese (ja) 明 (貝)		338
7	Russian (ru) Мин (моллюск)		308
8	French (fr) Ming (coquillage)		181
9	Dutch (nl) Ming de Noordkromp		117
10	Polish (pl) Ming (małż)		96

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ming (clam)		99
2	French (fr) Ming (coquillage)		26
3	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		23
4	Chinese (zh) 明 (蛤蜊)		23
5	Hebrew (he) מינג (צדפה)		22
6	Portuguese (pt) Ming (molusco)		19
7	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		18
8	German (de) Ming (Muschel)		14
9	Persian (fa) مینگ (صدف)		9
10	Dutch (nl) Ming de Noordkromp		8

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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 "Ming (clam)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Ming (musling)		0
2	German (de) Ming (Muschel)		0
3	English (en) Ming (clam)		0
4	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		0
5	Persian (fa) مینگ (صدف)		0
6	French (fr) Ming (coquillage)		0
7	Hebrew (he) מינג (צדפה)		0
8	Armenian (hy) Մին (փափկամարմին)		0
9	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 明 (貝)		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 "Ming (clam)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ming (clam)		14
2	Spanish (es) Ming (almeja)		8
3	Japanese (ja) 明 (貝)		6
4	Chinese (zh) 明 (蛤蜊)		5
5	German (de) Ming (Muschel)		4
6	French (fr) Ming (coquillage)		4
7	Italian (it) Ming (vongola)		4
8	Dutch (nl) Ming de Noordkromp		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Ming (molusco)		4
10	Danish (da) Ming (musling)		3

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Ming (musling)
de	German Ming (Muschel)
en	English Ming (clam)
es	Spanish Ming (almeja)
fa	Persian مینگ (صدف)
fr	French Ming (coquillage)
he	Hebrew מינג (צדפה)
hy	Armenian Մին (փափկամարմին)
it	Italian Ming (vongola)
ja	Japanese 明 (貝)
nl	Dutch Ming de Noordkromp
pl	Polish Ming (małż)
pt	Portuguese Ming (molusco)
ru	Russian Мин (моллюск)
zh	Chinese 明 (蛤蜊)

Best Rank

English: #24543 07.2014

Global: #48179 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #2076 11.2013

Global: #1998 11.2013

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