Shimazu clan

Shimazu clan - noble family. Article “Shimazu clan” in English Wikipedia has 47.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shimazu clan”, its content was written by 101 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 375 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3535 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8894 in June 2004
• Global: #6536 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51293 in December 2016
• Global: #10311 in January 2008

There are 23 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	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		85.8415
2	Vietnamese (vi) Gia tộc Shimazu		51.5908
3	English (en) Shimazu clan		47.7711
4	Korean (ko) 시마즈씨		42.2979
5	Chinese (zh) 島津氏		36.3048
6	Serbian (sr) Клан Шимазу		33.6577
7	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		31.5452
8	Portuguese (pt) Clã Shimazu		21.5549
9	Catalan (ca) Clan Shimazu		17.1079
10	Turkish (tr) Şimazu boyu		16.0186

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shimazu clan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		4 220 892
2	English (en) Shimazu clan		1 156 904
3	Chinese (zh) 島津氏		273 727
4	Russian (ru) Симадзу (род)		190 422
5	French (fr) Clan Shimazu		104 729
6	Spanish (es) Clan Shimazu		95 242
7	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		75 949
8	Italian (it) Clan Shimazu		49 072
9	Korean (ko) 시마즈씨		45 115
10	Portuguese (pt) Clã Shimazu		31 477

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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 "Shimazu clan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		13 050
2	English (en) Shimazu clan		6 472
3	Chinese (zh) 島津氏		1 597
4	Russian (ru) Симадзу (род)		906
5	French (fr) Clan Shimazu		406
6	Spanish (es) Clan Shimazu		354
7	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		283
8	Italian (it) Clan Shimazu		198
9	Korean (ko) 시마즈씨		184
10	Vietnamese (vi) Gia tộc Shimazu		150

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		161
2	English (en) Shimazu clan		101
3	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		54
4	French (fr) Clan Shimazu		50
5	Italian (it) Clan Shimazu		40
6	Chinese (zh) 島津氏		26
7	Korean (ko) 시마즈씨		15
8	Spanish (es) Clan Shimazu		13
9	Dutch (nl) Shimazu (familie)		11
10	Russian (ru) Симадзу (род)		11

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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 "Shimazu clan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		2
2	Russian (ru) Симадзу (род)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Clan Shimazu		0
4	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		0
5	English (en) Shimazu clan		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Shimazu (klano)		0
7	Spanish (es) Clan Shimazu		0
8	Persian (fa) خاندان شیمازو		0
9	Finnish (fi) Shimazu-klaani		0
10	French (fr) Clan Shimazu		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 "Shimazu clan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 島津氏		1 800
2	English (en) Shimazu clan		375
3	Chinese (zh) 島津氏		265
4	French (fr) Clan Shimazu		218
5	Korean (ko) 시마즈씨		128
6	Italian (it) Clan Shimazu		126
7	Persian (fa) خاندان شیمازو		88
8	German (de) Shimazu (Klan)		75
9	Spanish (es) Clan Shimazu		69
10	Russian (ru) Симадзу (род)		67

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Clan Shimazu
de	German Shimazu (Klan)
en	English Shimazu clan
eo	Esperanto Shimazu (klano)
es	Spanish Clan Shimazu
fa	Persian خاندان شیمازو
fi	Finnish Shimazu-klaani
fr	French Clan Shimazu
hi	Hindi शिमाज़ु कबीले
it	Italian Clan Shimazu
ja	Japanese 島津氏
ko	Korean 시마즈씨
nl	Dutch Shimazu (familie)
pt	Portuguese Clã Shimazu
ru	Russian Симадзу (род)
sr	Serbian Клан Шимазу
sv	Swedish Shimazu
th	Thai ตระกูลชิมาซุ
tr	Turkish Şimazu boyu
uk	Ukrainian Рід Сімадзу
vi	Vietnamese Gia tộc Shimazu
zh	Chinese 島津氏
zhminnan	Min Nan Simazu

Best Rank

English: #51293 12.2016

Global: #10311 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #8894 06.2004

Global: #6536 11.2007

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