Pediculus humanus capitis

Quality:

Head louse - subspecies of insect. This taxon is the 589^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 622^nd most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Pediculus humanus capitis” in Italian Wikipedia has 8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.42 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 622^nd most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 589^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Pediculus humanus capitis”, its content was written by 73 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1402 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Head louse is on the 622^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 589^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 32 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 768 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1950 in August 2016
• Global: #6758 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #8176 in September 2016
• Global: #10930 in September 2008

There are 29 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) Head louse		89.3193
2	German (de) Kopflaus		87.1429
3	Hebrew (he) כינת הראש		77.4963
4	Galician (gl) Piollo da cabeza		71.4736
5	Spanish (es) Pediculus humanus capitis		69.0341
6	Dutch (nl) Hoofdluis		67.5897
7	Hungarian (hu) Fejtetű		36.0959
8	Slovak (sk) Voš detská		35.4959
9	Catalan (ca) Poll del cap		33.1902
10	Ukrainian (uk) Головна воша		31.7674

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Head louse		5 169 333
2	German (de) Kopflaus		4 028 479
3	Dutch (nl) Hoofdluis		783 613
4	Persian (fa) شپش سر		654 275
5	Russian (ru) Головная вошь		644 413
6	Finnish (fi) Päätäi		638 462
7	Italian (it) Pediculus humanus capitis		553 511
8	Czech (cs) Veš dětská		469 897
9	Chinese (zh) 頭蝨		365 230
10	Indonesian (id) Kutu kepala		270 904

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) Head louse		14 977
2	German (de) Kopflaus		6 489
3	Russian (ru) Головная вошь		2 175
4	Italian (it) Pediculus humanus capitis		1 234
5	Czech (cs) Veš dětská		1 115
6	Hebrew (he) כינת הראש		933
7	Dutch (nl) Hoofdluis		887
8	Chinese (zh) 頭蝨		840
9	Hungarian (hu) Fejtetű		700
10	Finnish (fi) Päätäi		694

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Head louse		400
2	German (de) Kopflaus		330
3	Dutch (nl) Hoofdluis		128
4	Italian (it) Pediculus humanus capitis		73
5	Finnish (fi) Päätäi		52
6	Hebrew (he) כינת הראש		48
7	Hungarian (hu) Fejtetű		38
8	Swedish (sv) Huvudlus		37
9	Persian (fa) شپش سر		34
10	Russian (ru) Головная вошь		32

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) Head louse		4
2	Catalan (ca) Poll del cap		1
3	Finnish (fi) Päätäi		1
4	Dutch (nl) Hoofdluis		1
5	Arabic (ar) قمل الرأس		0
6	Czech (cs) Veš dětská		0
7	German (de) Kopflaus		0
8	Spanish (es) Pediculus humanus capitis		0
9	Basque (eu) Buru-zorri		0
10	Persian (fa) شپش سر		0

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

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