Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus - Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778). This person is the 1478^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 191^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Carl Linnaeus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1665^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 544^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 191^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4821^st most popular in all topics.

The 1407^th most popular in AI.

The 1478^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 892^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8609^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Carl Linnaeus”, its content was written by 113 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (544^th place) and edited by 5740 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1407^th place).

Carl Linnaeus is on the 191^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1478^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 953 times in Simple English Wikipedia (573^rd place) and cited 213923 times in all languages (530^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in March 2012
• Global: #68 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #92 in September 2011
• Global: #1746 in September 2010

There are 55 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	Catalan (ca) Carl von Linné		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Carl von Linné		100
3	Galician (gl) Carl von Linné		100
4	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		98.7998
5	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		98.1613
6	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		96.5767
7	Esperanto (eo) Karolo Lineo		95.2381
8	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		86.4072
9	German (de) Carl von Linné		80.3719
10	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·林奈		76.181

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		14 377 673
2	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		7 403 331
3	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		3 048 098
4	German (de) Carl von Linné		2 318 666
5	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		2 020 868
6	Italian (it) Linneo		1 817 761
7	Portuguese (pt) Lineu		1 386 802
8	French (fr) Carl von Linné		1 297 550
9	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		1 274 746
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		939 961

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) Carl Linnaeus		42 768
2	German (de) Carl von Linné		9 937
3	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		6 846
4	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		6 609
5	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		5 743
6	Italian (it) Linneo		5 686
7	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		4 818
8	French (fr) Carl von Linné		3 970
9	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		3 186
10	Dutch (nl) Carl Linnaeus		2 973

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		1 117
2	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		432
3	German (de) Carl von Linné		415
4	French (fr) Carl von Linné		356
5	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		309
6	Italian (it) Linneo		217
7	Dutch (nl) Carl Linnaeus		206
8	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		182
9	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		138
10	Portuguese (pt) Lineu		135

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	Azerbaijani (az) Karl Linney		2
2	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		2
3	Armenian (hy) Կառլ Լիննեյ		2
4	Arabic (ar) كارولوس لينيوس		1
5	Catalan (ca) Carl von Linné		1
6	German (de) Carl von Linné		1
7	Basque (eu) Lineo		1
8	French (fr) Carl von Linné		1
9	Galician (gl) Carl von Linné		1
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information