北斗星 (列車)

Hokutosei - overnight train service in Japan which connected Ueno and Sapporo. Article “北斗星 (列車)” in Japanese Wikipedia has 81 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 202 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.26 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Japanese) language version.

Since the creation of article “北斗星 (列車)”, its content was written by 221 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (4255^th place) and edited by 330 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 219 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 384 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #60 in August 2015
• Global: #10201 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #472 in March 2015
• Global: #30364 in December 2014

There are 8 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) 北斗星 (列車)		81.0087
2	English (en) Hokutosei		57.4082
3	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		49.508
4	German (de) Hokutosei		34.8505
5	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		11.841
6	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		7.9684
7	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		2.0894
8	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		1.6682

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

The most popular language versions of the article "北斗星 (列車)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 北斗星 (列車)		2 472 132
2	English (en) Hokutosei		119 667
3	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		107 485
4	German (de) Hokutosei		8 743
5	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		4 906
6	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		1 800
7	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		1 671
8	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		1 471

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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 "北斗星 (列車)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 北斗星 (列車)		7 104
2	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		733
3	English (en) Hokutosei		631
4	German (de) Hokutosei		35
5	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		17
6	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		16
7	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		14
8	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 北斗星 (列車)		221
2	English (en) Hokutosei		36
3	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		30
4	German (de) Hokutosei		23
5	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		8
6	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		5
7	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		4
8	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		3

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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 "北斗星 (列車)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		1
2	German (de) Hokutosei		0
3	English (en) Hokutosei		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		0
5	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		0
6	Japanese (ja) 北斗星 (列車)		0
7	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		0
8	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		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 "北斗星 (列車)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 北斗星 (列車)		219
2	English (en) Hokutosei		84
3	Chinese (zh) 北斗星号列车		48
4	Italian (it) Hokutosei (treno)		12
5	German (de) Hokutosei		7
6	Thai (th) โฮกูโตเซ		6
7	Esperanto (eo) Hokutosej		4
8	Korean (ko) 호쿠토세이		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Hokutosei
en	English Hokutosei
eo	Esperanto Hokutosej
it	Italian Hokutosei (treno)
ja	Japanese 北斗星 (列車)
ko	Korean 호쿠토세이
th	Thai โฮกูโตเซ
zh	Chinese 北斗星号列车

Best Rank

Japanese: #472 03.2015

Global: #30364 12.2014

Best Rank

Japanese: #60 08.2015

Global: #10201 11.2003

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