VOC chief traders in Japan

Dutch Opperhoofd in Japan - Head of the Dutch trading post in Japan. Article “VOC chief traders in Japan” in English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.48 points.

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 “VOC chief traders in Japan”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 51 times in English Wikipedia and cited 403 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #43887 in July 2024
• Global: #86796 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #525037 in July 2023
• Global: #453292 in August 2008

There are 7 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) カピタン		54.596
2	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		49.3232
3	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		23.0345
4	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		17.655
5	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		8.0862
6	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		6.9507
7	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		4.8623

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

The most popular language versions of the article "VOC chief traders in Japan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) カピタン		279 243
2	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		110 079
3	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		38 850
4	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		10 171
5	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		8 136
6	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		6 498
7	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		1 303

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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 "VOC chief traders in Japan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) カピタン		1 195
2	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		520
3	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		128
4	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		91
5	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		53
6	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		50
7	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		18

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

Language versions of the article "VOC chief traders in Japan" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		55
2	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		38
3	Japanese (ja) カピタン		33
4	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		12
5	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		10
6	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		4
7	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		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 "VOC chief traders in Japan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		0
2	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		0
3	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		0
4	Japanese (ja) カピタン		0
5	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		0
6	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		0
7	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		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 "VOC chief traders in Japan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) カピタン		236
2	Dutch (nl) Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan		74
3	English (en) VOC chief traders in Japan		51
4	French (fr) VOC Opperhoofden au Japon		18
5	Chinese (zh) 甲比丹		12
6	Korean (ko) 데지마 상관장		9
7	Indonesian (id) VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English VOC chief traders in Japan
fr	French VOC Opperhoofden au Japon
id	Indonesian VOC Opperhoofden di Jepang
ja	Japanese カピタン
ko	Korean 데지마 상관장
nl	Dutch Lijst van VOC-opperhoofden in Japan
zh	Chinese 甲比丹

Best Rank

English: #525037 07.2023

Global: #453292 08.2008

Best Rank

English: #43887 07.2024

Global: #86796 09.2009

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