Return (informatica)

Return statement - programming statement that stops execution of the current subroutine, optionally passing back a return value to the code that called the subroutine. Article “Return (informatica)” in Italian Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Return (informatica)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 337 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #30151 in November 2021
• Global: #64509 in November 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #245314 in November 2018
• Global: #171902 in October 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	English (en) Return statement		34.8786
2	Catalan (ca) Instrucció de retorn		26.4646
3	Polish (pl) Instrukcja powrotu		21.433
4	Japanese (ja) Return文		21.3076
5	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		19.6712
6	Italian (it) Return (informatica)		19.0802
7	Arabic (ar) تعليمة إخراج ناتج		17.8576
8	Serbian (sr) Наредба повратка		16.0171
9	Chinese (zh) Return語句		10.7221
10	Korean (ko) Return 문		7.0161

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Return (informatica)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Return statement		635 955
2	Japanese (ja) Return文		275 454
3	Polish (pl) Instrukcja powrotu		39 551
4	Italian (it) Return (informatica)		12 532
5	Simple English (simple) Return statement		10 748
6	Croatian (hr) Naredba povratka		8 081
7	Korean (ko) Return 문		7 368
8	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh trả về		4 420
9	Ukrainian (uk) Інструкція повернення		3 992
10	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		3 687

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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 "Return (informatica)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Return statement		1 815
2	Simple English (simple) Return statement		360
3	Japanese (ja) Return文		187
4	Chinese (zh) Return語句		74
5	Korean (ko) Return 문		37
6	Arabic (ar) تعليمة إخراج ناتج		25
7	Croatian (hr) Naredba povratka		24
8	Polish (pl) Instrukcja powrotu		19
9	Italian (it) Return (informatica)		18
10	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		15

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Return statement		88
2	Japanese (ja) Return文		18
3	Simple English (simple) Return statement		12
4	Italian (it) Return (informatica)		9
5	Polish (pl) Instrukcja powrotu		9
6	Croatian (hr) Naredba povratka		8
7	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		6
8	Serbian (sr) Наредба повратка		6
9	Czech (cs) Return (programování)		5
10	Arabic (ar) تعليمة إخراج ناتج		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 "Return (informatica)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) Return 문		1
2	Arabic (ar) تعليمة إخراج ناتج		0
3	Catalan (ca) Instrucció de retorn		0
4	Czech (cs) Return (programování)		0
5	English (en) Return statement		0
6	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		0
7	Croatian (hr) Naredba povratka		0
8	Italian (it) Return (informatica)		0
9	Japanese (ja) Return文		0
10	Dutch (nl) Return statement		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 "Return (informatica)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Return statement		112
2	Japanese (ja) Return文		59
3	Croatian (hr) Naredba povratka		51
4	Polish (pl) Instrukcja powrotu		33
5	Korean (ko) Return 문		15
6	Ukrainian (uk) Інструкція повернення		13
7	Chinese (zh) Return語句		11
8	Persian (fa) دستور بازگشتی		8
9	Arabic (ar) تعليمة إخراج ناتج		6
10	Catalan (ca) Instrucció de retorn		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تعليمة إخراج ناتج
ca	Catalan Instrucció de retorn
cs	Czech Return (programování)
en	English Return statement
fa	Persian دستور بازگشتی
hr	Croatian Naredba povratka
it	Italian Return (informatica)
ja	Japanese Return文
ko	Korean Return 문
nl	Dutch Return statement
no	Norwegian Retursetning
pl	Polish Instrukcja powrotu
simple	Simple English Return statement
sr	Serbian Наредба повратка
uk	Ukrainian Інструкція повернення
vi	Vietnamese Câu lệnh trả về
zh	Chinese Return語句

Best Rank

Italian: #245314 11.2018

Global: #171902 10.2014

Best Rank

Italian: #30151 11.2021

Global: #64509 11.2016

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