Y chromosome

Y chromosome - sex chromosome in the XY sex-determination system. Article “Y chromosome” in English Wikipedia has 70.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 147 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.49 points.

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Y chromosome”, its content was written by 422 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1172 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 997 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5295 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9154 in February 2023
• Global: #9060 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16475 in June 2008
• Global: #15932 in August 2024

There are 42 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, 2026 (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	Greek (el) Χρωμόσωμα Υ		72.5776
2	English (en) Y chromosome		70.7762
3	Uzbek (uz) Y xromosoma		70.6117
4	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		58.7023
5	Galician (gl) Cromosoma Y		46.3217
6	Estonian (et) Y-kromosoom		45.6648
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Y-kromosom		43.5404
8	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		40.6261
9	German (de) Y-Chromosom		37.2792
10	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		36.7953

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Y chromosome" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Y chromosome		5 980 397
2	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		991 519
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		841 647
4	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		721 024
5	French (fr) Chromosome Y		511 168
6	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		280 683
7	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		276 668
8	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		275 601
9	Hindi (hi) वाई गुण सूत्र		193 138
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		186 150

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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 "Y chromosome" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Y chromosome		10 713
2	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		2 497
3	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		2 242
4	German (de) Y-Chromosom		2 058
5	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		1 062
6	Persian (fa) کروموزوم Y		822
7	French (fr) Chromosome Y		779
8	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		294
9	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		294
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		216

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Y chromosome		422
2	French (fr) Chromosome Y		97
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		81
4	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		61
5	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		52
6	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		46
7	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		41
8	Hungarian (hu) Y-kromoszóma		36
9	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		26
10	Hebrew (he) כרומוזום Y		23

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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 "Y chromosome" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Cromosoma Y		1
2	Persian (fa) کروموزوم Y		1
3	Korean (ko) Y 염색체		1
4	Arabic (ar) الصبغي Y		0
5	Belarusian (be) Y-храмасома		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Y-хромозома		0
7	Czech (cs) Chromozom Y		0
8	German (de) Y-Chromosom		0
9	Greek (el) Χρωμόσωμα Υ		0
10	English (en) Y chromosome		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 "Y chromosome" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Y chromosome		997
2	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		407
3	French (fr) Chromosome Y		395
4	German (de) Y-Chromosom		290
5	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		275
6	Arabic (ar) الصبغي Y		228
7	Ukrainian (uk) Y-хромосома		219
8	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		201
9	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		186
10	Catalan (ca) Cromosoma Y		179

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الصبغي Y
be	Belarusian Y-храмасома
bg	Bulgarian Y-хромозома
ca	Catalan Cromosoma Y
cs	Czech Chromozom Y
de	German Y-Chromosom
el	Greek Χρωμόσωμα Υ
en	English Y chromosome
eo	Esperanto Kromosomo Y
et	Estonian Y-kromosoom
eu	Basque Y kromosoma
fa	Persian کروموزوم Y
fi	Finnish Y-kromosomi
fr	French Chromosome Y
gl	Galician Cromosoma Y
he	Hebrew כרומוזום Y
hi	Hindi वाई गुण सूत्र
hu	Hungarian Y-kromoszóma
hy	Armenian Y քրոմոսոմ
id	Indonesian Kromosom-Y
ja	Japanese Y染色体
ko	Korean Y 염색체
ms	Malay Kromosom Y
nl	Dutch Y-chromosoom
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Y-kromosom
no	Norwegian Y-kromosom
pl	Polish Chromosom Y
ro	Romanian Cromozomul Y
ru	Russian Y-хромосома
sh	Serbo-Croatian Y hromozom
simple	Simple English Y chromosome
sk	Slovak Chromozóm Y
sl	Slovenian Kromosom Y
sr	Serbian Y хромозом
sv	Swedish Y-kromosom
th	Thai โครโมโซมวาย
tr	Turkish Y Kromozomu
uk	Ukrainian Y-хромосома
uz	Uzbek Y xromosoma
vi	Vietnamese Nhiễm sắc thể Y
zh	Chinese Y染色體
zhminnan	Min Nan Y jiám-sek-thé

Best Rank

English: #16475 06.2008

Global: #15932 08.2024

Best Rank

English: #9154 02.2023

Global: #9060 04.2011

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