Shire (pharmaceutical company)

Shire plc - British company. This company is the 6604^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business. Article “Shire (pharmaceutical company)” in English Wikipedia has 67.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 62 references and 14 sections.

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 “Shire (pharmaceutical company)”, its content was written by 154 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shire plc is on the 6604^th place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 297 times in English Wikipedia and cited 574 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26353 in April 2021
• Global: #52061 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53600 in April 2018
• Global: #50698 in May 2018

There are 8 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) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		67.7328
2	German (de) Shire PLC		34.33
3	Hebrew (he) שייר		30.728
4	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		25.0146
5	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		23.7622
6	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		23.511
7	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		23.0674
8	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		16.8807

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shire (pharmaceutical company)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		1 296 595
2	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		158 114
3	German (de) Shire PLC		119 294
4	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		44 944
5	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		5 273
6	Hebrew (he) שייר		3 821
7	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		3 006
8	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		95

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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 "Shire (pharmaceutical company)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		2 386
2	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		456
3	German (de) Shire PLC		178
4	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		58
5	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		32
6	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		19
7	Hebrew (he) שייר		9
8	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		154
2	German (de) Shire PLC		37
3	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		24
4	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		11
5	Hebrew (he) שייר		10
6	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		5
7	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		4
8	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		2

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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 "Shire (pharmaceutical company)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		0
2	German (de) Shire PLC		0
3	English (en) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		0
4	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		0
5	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		0
6	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		0
7	Hebrew (he) שייר		0
8	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		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 "Shire (pharmaceutical company)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shire (pharmaceutical company)		297
2	Persian (fa) شایر پی‌ال‌سی		110
3	French (fr) Shire (entreprise)		106
4	German (de) Shire PLC		32
5	Japanese (ja) シャイアー (企業)		16
6	Arabic (ar) شاير (شركة دوائية)		7
7	Hebrew (he) שייר		5
8	Finnish (fi) Shire (yritys)		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شاير (شركة دوائية)
de	German Shire PLC
en	English Shire (pharmaceutical company)
fa	Persian شایر پی‌ال‌سی
fi	Finnish Shire (yritys)
fr	French Shire (entreprise)
he	Hebrew שייר
ja	Japanese シャイアー (企業)

Best Rank

English: #53600 04.2018

Global: #50698 05.2018

Best Rank

English: #26353 04.2021

Global: #52061 01.2019

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