Edge effects (ecology)

Edge effects - ecological concept. Article “Edge effects (ecology)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Edge effects (ecology)”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 778 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2948 in March 2021
• Global: #19053 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #35327 in March 2021
• Global: #51644 in December 2011

There are 16 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	Portuguese (pt) Efeito de borda		43.5723
2	English (en) Edge effects		35.5174
3	Simple English (simple) Edge effects (ecology)		32.1616
4	Estonian (et) Servaefekt		31.7257
5	Chinese (zh) 边缘效应		26.1707
6	Tamil (ta) ஓர விளைவு		25.4284
7	Japanese (ja) エッジ効果		25.2882
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hiệu ứng rìa		23.2022
9	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		22.5328
10	Catalan (ca) Efecte de vora		19.9083

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Edge effects (ecology)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edge effects		932 569
2	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		134 626
3	Portuguese (pt) Efeito de borda		109 468
4	Japanese (ja) エッジ効果		46 222
5	Chinese (zh) 边缘效应		37 655
6	German (de) Randeffekt		24 751
7	Finnish (fi) Reunavaikutus		15 290
8	Catalan (ca) Efecte de vora		5 962
9	Estonian (et) Servaefekt		5 218
10	Swedish (sv) Kanteffekt		4 352

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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 "Edge effects (ecology)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edge effects		1 141
2	Chinese (zh) 边缘效应		168
3	Portuguese (pt) Efeito de borda		165
4	Japanese (ja) エッジ効果		117
5	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		98
6	French (fr) Effet de lisière		87
7	Swedish (sv) Kanteffekt		23
8	German (de) Randeffekt		19
9	Finnish (fi) Reunavaikutus		19
10	Persian (fa) اثر لبه زیستگاه		18

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

Language versions of the article "Edge effects (ecology)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edge effects		109
2	Tamil (ta) ஓர விளைவு		16
3	Portuguese (pt) Efeito de borda		15
4	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		11
5	German (de) Randeffekt		10
6	Estonian (et) Servaefekt		7
7	Chinese (zh) 边缘效应		6
8	Catalan (ca) Efecte de vora		4
9	Persian (fa) اثر لبه زیستگاه		4
10	Swedish (sv) Kanteffekt		4

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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 "Edge effects (ecology)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) اثر لبه زیستگاه		1
2	Arabic (ar) تأثير الحافة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Efecte de vora		0
4	German (de) Randeffekt		0
5	English (en) Edge effects		0
6	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		0
7	Estonian (et) Servaefekt		0
8	Finnish (fi) Reunavaikutus		0
9	French (fr) Effet de lisière		0
10	Japanese (ja) エッジ効果		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 "Edge effects (ecology)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Edge effects		311
2	Persian (fa) اثر لبه زیستگاه		129
3	Arabic (ar) تأثير الحافة		124
4	Chinese (zh) 边缘效应		119
5	Portuguese (pt) Efeito de borda		26
6	French (fr) Effet de lisière		24
7	Catalan (ca) Efecte de vora		14
8	Spanish (es) Efecto de borde		13
9	German (de) Randeffekt		5
10	Estonian (et) Servaefekt		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تأثير الحافة
ca	Catalan Efecte de vora
de	German Randeffekt
en	English Edge effects
es	Spanish Efecto de borde
et	Estonian Servaefekt
fa	Persian اثر لبه زیستگاه
fi	Finnish Reunavaikutus
fr	French Effet de lisière
ja	Japanese エッジ効果
pt	Portuguese Efeito de borda
simple	Simple English Edge effects (ecology)
sv	Swedish Kanteffekt
ta	Tamil ஓர விளைவு
vi	Vietnamese Hiệu ứng rìa
zh	Chinese 边缘效应

Best Rank

Simple English: #35327 03.2021

Global: #51644 12.2011

Best Rank

Simple English: #2948 03.2021

Global: #19053 08.2002

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