元首

Quality:

Head of state - official who holds the highest-ranked executive position in a sovereign state. Article “元首” in Japanese Wikipedia has 42.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.24 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

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The 7260^th most editable in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5836^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Japanese Wikipedia:

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The 5207^th most editable in Japanese Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “元首” was edited by 3 authors in Japanese Wikipedia (5207^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “元首”, its content was written by 180 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (7260^th place) and edited by 3297 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5836^th place).

The article is cited 1540 times in Japanese Wikipedia (6398^th place) and cited 37187 times in all languages (4395^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #96 in March 2003
• Global: #580 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #2679 in August 2015
• Global: #5063 in September 2022

There are 53 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 of state		66.3911
2	Romanian (ro) Șef de stat		57.4166
3	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		56.4045
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên thủ quốc gia		55.9141
5	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		42.9389
6	Japanese (ja) 元首		42.5526
7	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		34.9691
8	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		34.5989
9	Hindi (hi) राष्ट्रप्रमुख		33.3331
10	Thai (th) ประมุขแห่งรัฐ		32.2995

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Head of state		8 322 264
2	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		2 125 307
3	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		1 597 752
4	Japanese (ja) 元首		1 357 474
5	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		906 350
6	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		867 009
7	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		777 128
8	French (fr) Chef d'État		753 416
9	Russian (ru) Глава государства		595 643
10	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		546 819

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 of state		45 728
2	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		5 096
3	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		4 734
4	Japanese (ja) 元首		3 931
5	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		3 489
6	Russian (ru) Глава государства		2 883
7	French (fr) Chef d'État		2 496
8	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		1 893
9	Simple English (simple) Head of state		1 861
10	Persian (fa) رئیس کشور		1 748

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Head of state		888
2	German (de) Staatsoberhaupt		203
3	Chinese (zh) 國家元首		196
4	Japanese (ja) 元首		180
5	French (fr) Chef d'État		158
6	Polish (pl) Głowa państwa		142
7	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		111
8	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		106
9	Dutch (nl) Staatshoofd		100
10	Hebrew (he) ראש מדינה		84

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 of state		4
2	Spanish (es) Jefe de Estado		3
3	Japanese (ja) 元首		3
4	Persian (fa) رئیس کشور		2
5	French (fr) Chef d'État		1
6	Indonesian (id) Kepala negara		1
7	Italian (it) Capo di Stato		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Chefe de Estado		1
9	Romanian (ro) Șef de stat		1
10	Thai (th) ประมุขแห่งรัฐ		1

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

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