Regola di Foster

Foster's rule - ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. Article “Regola di Foster” in Italian Wikipedia has 21.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Regola di Foster”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 145 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 933 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #20588 in March 2010
• Global: #77687 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #252536 in March 2010
• Global: #145865 in January 2014

There are 17 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	German (de) Inselregel		31.4758
2	Chinese (zh) 福斯特法则		31.4524
3	English (en) Foster's rule		28.7378
4	Russian (ru) Правило Фостера		25.984
5	Spanish (es) Ley de Foster		24.7622
6	Arabic (ar) قاعدة فوستر		24.7051
7	Bulgarian (bg) Правило на Фостър		24.198
8	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Фостера		23.4641
9	Vietnamese (vi) Quy tắc Foster		23.4483
10	Dutch (nl) Wet van Foster		23.0329

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Regola di Foster" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foster's rule		398 754
2	Japanese (ja) 島嶼化		205 565
3	German (de) Inselregel		19 442
4	Russian (ru) Правило Фостера		19 266
5	Chinese (zh) 福斯特法则		18 515
6	Italian (it) Regola di Foster		10 187
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Foster		6 948
8	Bulgarian (bg) Правило на Фостър		6 440
9	Dutch (nl) Wet van Foster		5 816
10	Hebrew (he) חוק האי		4 623

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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 "Regola di Foster" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foster's rule		2 206
2	Japanese (ja) 島嶼化		1 029
3	Russian (ru) Правило Фостера		281
4	German (de) Inselregel		183
5	Chinese (zh) 福斯特法则		147
6	Italian (it) Regola di Foster		47
7	Persian (fa) قانون فاستر		35
8	Hebrew (he) חוק האי		32
9	Spanish (es) Ley de Foster		30
10	French (fr) Loi de Foster		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 "Regola di Foster" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Foster's rule		39
2	Hebrew (he) חוק האי		14
3	Japanese (ja) 島嶼化		14
4	Italian (it) Regola di Foster		13
5	German (de) Inselregel		12
6	Dutch (nl) Wet van Foster		10
7	French (fr) Loi de Foster		9
8	Chinese (zh) 福斯特法则		7
9	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Фостера		5
10	Belarusian (be) Правіла Фостэра		4

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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 "Regola di Foster" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 島嶼化		1
2	Arabic (ar) قاعدة فوستر		0
3	Belarusian (be) Правіла Фостэра		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Правило на Фостър		0
5	German (de) Inselregel		0
6	English (en) Foster's rule		0
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Foster		0
8	Persian (fa) قانون فاستر		0
9	French (fr) Loi de Foster		0
10	Hebrew (he) חוק האי		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 "Regola di Foster" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Foster's rule		268
2	Ukrainian (uk) Правило Фостера		142
3	Persian (fa) قانون فاستر		135
4	Chinese (zh) 福斯特法则		130
5	Arabic (ar) قاعدة فوستر		121
6	Japanese (ja) 島嶼化		46
7	Belarusian (be) Правіла Фостэра		40
8	Italian (it) Regola di Foster		14
9	French (fr) Loi de Foster		12
10	Spanish (es) Ley de Foster		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قاعدة فوستر
be	Belarusian Правіла Фостэра
bg	Bulgarian Правило на Фостър
de	German Inselregel
en	English Foster's rule
es	Spanish Ley de Foster
fa	Persian قانون فاستر
fr	French Loi de Foster
he	Hebrew חוק האי
id	Indonesian Peraturan Foster
it	Italian Regola di Foster
ja	Japanese 島嶼化
nl	Dutch Wet van Foster
ru	Russian Правило Фостера
uk	Ukrainian Правило Фостера
vi	Vietnamese Quy tắc Foster
zh	Chinese 福斯特法则

Best Rank

Italian: #252536 03.2010

Global: #145865 01.2014

Best Rank

Italian: #20588 03.2010

Global: #77687 05.2012

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