Sō clan

Sō clan - Japanese clan of samurai who controlled the Tsushima Province and its piracy (wokou) since the 11th century until the abolition of the han system during the Meiji restoration (1871). Article “Sō clan” in English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 6 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 “Sō clan”, its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 142 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in English Wikipedia and cited 388 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #60073 in May 2005
• Global: #39767 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #119143 in July 2020
• Global: #93351 in July 2020

There are 9 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) 宗氏		39.0033
2	Russian (ru) Со (род)		24.9523
3	English (en) Sō clan		24.6181
4	German (de) Sō (Klan)		19.5231
5	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		17.6005
6	Italian (it) Clan Sō		16.9228
7	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		6.3964
8	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		3.7352
9	French (fr) Clan Sō		2.9259

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 宗氏		813 586
2	English (en) Sō clan		234 307
3	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		57 722
4	Russian (ru) Со (род)		24 331
5	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		16 745
6	French (fr) Clan Sō		8 185
7	German (de) Sō (Klan)		5 808
8	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		2 532
9	Italian (it) Clan Sō		1 937

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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 "Sō clan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 宗氏		4 288
2	English (en) Sō clan		1 506
3	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		425
4	Russian (ru) Со (род)		374
5	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		83
6	German (de) Sō (Klan)		41
7	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		35
8	French (fr) Clan Sō		32
9	Italian (it) Clan Sō		20

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

Language versions of the article "Sō 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) 宗氏		56
2	English (en) Sō clan		41
3	French (fr) Clan Sō		12
4	Italian (it) Clan Sō		10
5	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		8
6	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		6
7	German (de) Sō (Klan)		5
8	Russian (ru) Со (род)		3
9	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		1

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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 "Sō clan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Sō (Klan)		0
2	English (en) Sō clan		0
3	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		0
4	French (fr) Clan Sō		0
5	Italian (it) Clan Sō		0
6	Japanese (ja) 宗氏		0
7	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		0
8	Russian (ru) Со (род)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		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 "Sō clan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 宗氏		175
2	Chinese (zh) 宗氏		57
3	Korean (ko) 소씨 (쓰시마)		50
4	English (en) Sō clan		43
5	French (fr) Clan Sō		21
6	Persian (fa) خاندان سو		13
7	Russian (ru) Со (род)		13
8	Italian (it) Clan Sō		10
9	German (de) Sō (Klan)		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German Sō (Klan)
en	English Sō clan
fa	Persian خاندان سو
fr	French Clan Sō
it	Italian Clan Sō
ja	Japanese 宗氏
ko	Korean 소씨 (쓰시마)
ru	Russian Со (род)
zh	Chinese 宗氏

Best Rank

English: #119143 07.2020

Global: #93351 07.2020

Best Rank

English: #60073 05.2005

Global: #39767 04.2005

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