John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith - British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004). Article “John Maynard Smith” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “John Maynard Smith”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 665 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 53 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 3103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #486 in January 2011
• Global: #2232 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #31347 in June 2023
• Global: #154693 in April 2008

There are 32 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, 2026 (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) John Maynard Smith		48.7
2	Turkish (tr) John Maynard Smith		41.2044
3	Swedish (sv) John Maynard Smith		39.8773
4	Greek (el) Τζων Μέυναρντ Σμιθ		37.8986
5	Arabic (ar) جون ماينارد سميث		30.8234
6	Norwegian (no) John Maynard Smith		27.8457
7	Polish (pl) John Maynard Smith		24.6838
8	Urdu (ur) جان مینارڈ اسمتھ		24.4146
9	Slovenian (sl) John Maynard Smith		19.278
10	Indonesian (id) John Maynard Smith		16.9425

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

The most popular language versions of the article "John Maynard Smith" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Maynard Smith		758 138
2	Japanese (ja) ジョン・メイナード＝スミス		86 319
3	Spanish (es) John Maynard Smith		79 463
4	German (de) John Maynard Smith		50 998
5	Polish (pl) John Maynard Smith		41 277
6	French (fr) John Maynard Smith		33 514
7	Russian (ru) Мейнард Смит, Джон		30 926
8	Italian (it) John Maynard Smith		30 606
9	Portuguese (pt) John Maynard Smith		27 127
10	Dutch (nl) John Maynard Smith		11 142

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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 "John Maynard Smith" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Maynard Smith		1 863
2	Japanese (ja) ジョン・メイナード＝スミス		180
3	Russian (ru) Мейнард Смит, Джон		102
4	Spanish (es) John Maynard Smith		87
5	Simple English (simple) John Maynard Smith		80
6	Italian (it) John Maynard Smith		78
7	German (de) John Maynard Smith		66
8	Chinese (zh) 约翰·梅纳德·史密斯		66
9	French (fr) John Maynard Smith		65
10	Polish (pl) John Maynard Smith		57

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Maynard Smith		193
2	German (de) John Maynard Smith		76
3	French (fr) John Maynard Smith		66
4	Spanish (es) John Maynard Smith		43
5	Japanese (ja) ジョン・メイナード＝スミス		34
6	Dutch (nl) John Maynard Smith		33
7	Italian (it) John Maynard Smith		28
8	Polish (pl) John Maynard Smith		28
9	Russian (ru) Мейнард Смит, Джон		22
10	Finnish (fi) John Maynard Smith		17

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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 "John Maynard Smith" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) جون ماينارد سميث		2
2	English (en) John Maynard Smith		1
3	Spanish (es) John Maynard Smith		1
4	Czech (cs) John Maynard Smith		0
5	Danish (da) John Maynard Smith		0
6	German (de) John Maynard Smith		0
7	Greek (el) Τζων Μέυναρντ Σμιθ		0
8	Esperanto (eo) John Maynard Smith		0
9	Persian (fa) جان مینارد اسمیت		0
10	Finnish (fi) John Maynard Smith		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 "John Maynard Smith" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) John Maynard Smith		487
2	Chinese (zh) 约翰·梅纳德·史密斯		458
3	Slovenian (sl) John Maynard Smith		294
4	Portuguese (pt) John Maynard Smith		273
5	Polish (pl) John Maynard Smith		220
6	Japanese (ja) ジョン・メイナード＝スミス		193
7	French (fr) John Maynard Smith		167
8	Arabic (ar) جون ماينارد سميث		143
9	Persian (fa) جان مینارد اسمیت		135
10	Italian (it) John Maynard Smith		96

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جون ماينارد سميث
cs	Czech John Maynard Smith
da	Danish John Maynard Smith
de	German John Maynard Smith
el	Greek Τζων Μέυναρντ Σμιθ
en	English John Maynard Smith
eo	Esperanto John Maynard Smith
es	Spanish John Maynard Smith
fa	Persian جان مینارد اسمیت
fi	Finnish John Maynard Smith
fr	French John Maynard Smith
id	Indonesian John Maynard Smith
it	Italian John Maynard Smith
ja	Japanese ジョン・メイナード＝スミス
ko	Korean 존 메이너드 스미스
la	Latin Ioannes Maynard Smith
lt	Lithuanian John Maynard Smith
nl	Dutch John Maynard Smith
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) John Maynard Smith
no	Norwegian John Maynard Smith
pl	Polish John Maynard Smith
pt	Portuguese John Maynard Smith
ru	Russian Мейнард Смит, Джон
simple	Simple English John Maynard Smith
sl	Slovenian John Maynard Smith
sr	Serbian Џон Мејнард Смит
sv	Swedish John Maynard Smith
tr	Turkish John Maynard Smith
ur	Urdu جان مینارڈ اسمتھ
vo	Volapük John Maynard Smith
zh	Chinese 约翰·梅纳德·史密斯
zhminnan	Min Nan John Maynard Smith

Best Rank

Norwegian: #31347 06.2023

Global: #154693 04.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #486 01.2011

Global: #2232 04.2004

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