Stem cell controversy

Quality:

Stem cell controversy - ethical controversy over the use of embryonic stem cells. Article “Stem cell controversy” in English Wikipedia has 63.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 91 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.05 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 “Stem cell controversy” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Stem cell controversy”, its content was written by 593 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 615 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 151 times in English Wikipedia and cited 164 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #532 in March 2009
• Global: #5882 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7223 in March 2009
• Global: #16694 in March 2009

There are 4 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) Stem cell controversy		63.4328
2	Catalan (ca) Controvèrsia amb les cèl·lules mare		40.4354
3	Arabic (ar) الجدل حول الخلايا الجذعية		15.2645
4	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi sel punca		8.5603

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stem cell controversy		2 847 987
2	Catalan (ca) Controvèrsia amb les cèl·lules mare		13 295
3	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi sel punca		1 580
4	Arabic (ar) الجدل حول الخلايا الجذعية		1 413

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stem cell controversy		2 367
2	Catalan (ca) Controvèrsia amb les cèl·lules mare		96
3	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi sel punca		15
4	Arabic (ar) الجدل حول الخلايا الجذعية		14

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stem cell controversy		593
2	Catalan (ca) Controvèrsia amb les cèl·lules mare		20
3	Arabic (ar) الجدل حول الخلايا الجذعية		1
4	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi sel punca		1

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stem cell controversy		2
2	Arabic (ar) الجدل حول الخلايا الجذعية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Controvèrsia amb les cèl·lules mare		0
4	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi sel punca		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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