Shirō Ishii

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Shirō Ishii

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Shirō Ishii - Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army). Article “Shirō Ishii” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 48.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 41 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shirō Ishii”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 505 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Norwegian): #393 in March 2025
  • Global: #8220 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Norwegian): #13089 in March 2025
  • Global: #16493 in August 2017

There are 34 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
石井四郎
92.3322
2English (en)
Shirō Ishii
59.8635
3Norwegian (no)
Shirō Ishii
48.7485
4French (fr)
Shirō Ishii
44.7396
5Ukrainian (uk)
Сіро Ісії
43.5553
6Italian (it)
Shirō Ishii
42.8752
7Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
37.5528
8Indonesian (id)
Shirō Ishii
34.3132
9Japanese (ja)
石井四郎
33.6053
10Hungarian (hu)
Isii Siró
31.4775
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Shirō Ishii" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shirō Ishii
4 163 522
2Japanese (ja)
石井四郎
1 517 532
3Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
691 311
4Spanish (es)
Shirō Ishii
445 450
5French (fr)
Shirō Ishii
392 342
6Chinese (zh)
石井四郎
317 540
7German (de)
Ishii Shirō
305 667
8Polish (pl)
Shirō Ishii
212 444
9Italian (it)
Shirō Ishii
173 319
10Korean (ko)
이시이 시로
97 913
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Shirō Ishii" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shirō Ishii
28 564
2Japanese (ja)
石井四郎
5 783
3Spanish (es)
Shirō Ishii
5 753
4Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
5 392
5Chinese (zh)
石井四郎
2 833
6French (fr)
Shirō Ishii
1 799
7German (de)
Ishii Shirō
1 771
8Italian (it)
Shirō Ishii
1 068
9Polish (pl)
Shirō Ishii
689
10Portuguese (pt)
Shirō Ishii
631
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Shirō Ishii" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shirō Ishii
258
2Japanese (ja)
石井四郎
110
3French (fr)
Shirō Ishii
95
4German (de)
Ishii Shirō
64
5Italian (it)
Shirō Ishii
62
6Chinese (zh)
石井四郎
48
7Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
42
8Spanish (es)
Shirō Ishii
40
9Polish (pl)
Shirō Ishii
37
10Korean (ko)
이시이 시로
32
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Shirō Ishii" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shirō Ishii
3
2Spanish (es)
Shirō Ishii
2
3Hebrew (he)
שירו אישיאי
1
4Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
1
5Turkish (tr)
Shirō Ishii
1
6Arabic (ar)
شيرو إيشي
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Şiro İşii
0
8Belarusian (be)
Сіра Ісіі
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Широ Ишии
0
10Catalan (ca)
Shirō Ishii
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Shirō Ishii" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shirō Ishii
75
2Japanese (ja)
石井四郎
57
3Chinese (zh)
石井四郎
53
4French (fr)
Shirō Ishii
46
5Spanish (es)
Shirō Ishii
32
6Italian (it)
Shirō Ishii
28
7Russian (ru)
Исии, Сиро
26
8German (de)
Ishii Shirō
22
9Korean (ko)
이시이 시로
20
10Persian (fa)
شیرو ایشی
16
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شيرو إيشي
azAzerbaijani
Şiro İşii
beBelarusian
Сіра Ісіі
bgBulgarian
Широ Ишии
caCatalan
Shirō Ishii
csCzech
Širó Išii
deGerman
Ishii Shirō
elGreek
Σίρο Ίσι
enEnglish
Shirō Ishii
eoEsperanto
Ishii Shiro
esSpanish
Shirō Ishii
euBasque
Shirō Ishii
faPersian
شیرو ایشی
fiFinnish
Shirō Ishii
frFrench
Shirō Ishii
heHebrew
שירו אישיאי
huHungarian
Isii Siró
idIndonesian
Shirō Ishii
itItalian
Shirō Ishii
jaJapanese
石井四郎
koKorean
이시이 시로
nlDutch
Shiro Ishii
noNorwegian
Shirō Ishii
plPolish
Shirō Ishii
ptPortuguese
Shirō Ishii
ruRussian
Исии, Сиро
simpleSimple English
Shirō Ishii
svSwedish
Shirō Ishii
thThai
ชิโร อิชิอิ
trTurkish
Shirō Ishii
ukUkrainian
Сіро Ісії
uzUzbek
Shirō Ishii
viVietnamese
Ishii Shiro
zhChinese
石井四郎

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Norwegian:
#13089
03.2025
Global:
#16493
08.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank Norwegian:
#393
03.2025
Global:
#8220
05.2023

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shirō Ishii from Wikipedia articles about Unit 731, Men Behind the Sun, Japanese war crimes, Josef Mengele and Operation PX. Whereas reading the article about Shirō Ishii people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Unit 731, Operation PX, Masaji Kitano, Josef Mengele and Hirohito.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Shirō Ishii

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