Function (biology)

Biological function - reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through a process of natural selection. Article “Function (biology)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 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 “Function (biology)”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1053 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1748 in September 2016
• Global: #65914 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5800 in January 2022
• Global: #149173 in February 2020

There are 18 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	Chinese (zh) 功能 (生物学)		61.3619
2	Turkish (tr) İşlev (biyoloji)		56.929
3	English (en) Function (biology)		54.4765
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chức năng sinh học		48.2667
5	Persian (fa) کارکرد (زیست‌شناسی)		44.034
6	Estonian (et) Funktsioon (bioloogia)		37.8707
7	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (علم الأحياء)		28.8938
8	Dutch (nl) Functie (biologie)		24.0262
9	Indonesian (id) Fungsi (biologi)		21.9623
10	Simple English (simple) Function (biology)		21.4826

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Function (biology)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Function (biology)		374 779
2	Spanish (es) Función (biología)		325 089
3	Portuguese (pt) Função (biologia)		286 398
4	French (fr) Fonction (biologie)		66 312
5	Dutch (nl) Functie (biologie)		18 503
6	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (علم الأحياء)		17 998
7	Ukrainian (uk) Функція (біологія)		15 037
8	Estonian (et) Funktsioon (bioloogia)		9 272
9	Indonesian (id) Fungsi (biologi)		5 923
10	Simple English (simple) Function (biology)		4 721

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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 "Function (biology)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Function (biology)		1 711
2	Spanish (es) Función (biología)		267
3	French (fr) Fonction (biologie)		203
4	Simple English (simple) Function (biology)		181
5	Indonesian (id) Fungsi (biologi)		140
6	Portuguese (pt) Função (biologia)		115
7	Chinese (zh) 功能 (生物学)		94
8	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (علم الأحياء)		48
9	Dutch (nl) Functie (biologie)		36
10	Ukrainian (uk) Функція (біологія)		30

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Function (biology)		52
2	Portuguese (pt) Função (biologia)		20
3	French (fr) Fonction (biologie)		15
4	Spanish (es) Función (biología)		12
5	Estonian (et) Funktsioon (bioloogia)		10
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chức năng sinh học		7
7	Simple English (simple) Function (biology)		5
8	Ukrainian (uk) Функція (біологія)		5
9	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (علم الأحياء)		4
10	Dutch (nl) Functie (biologie)		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 "Function (biology)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Function (biology)		2
2	Urdu (ur) افعال (حیاتیات)		1
3	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (علم الأحياء)		0
4	Czech (cs) Funkce (biologie)		0
5	Spanish (es) Función (biología)		0
6	Estonian (et) Funktsioon (bioloogia)		0
7	Persian (fa) کارکرد (زیست‌شناسی)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Biologinen funktio		0
9	French (fr) Fonction (biologie)		0
10	Indonesian (id) Fungsi (biologi)		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 "Function (biology)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Turkish (tr) İşlev (biyoloji)		219
2	English (en) Function (biology)		188
3	Persian (fa) کارکرد (زیست‌شناسی)		133
4	Indonesian (id) Fungsi (biologi)		100
5	Dutch (nl) Functie (biologie)		66
6	Portuguese (pt) Função (biologia)		48
7	French (fr) Fonction (biologie)		46
8	Estonian (et) Funktsioon (bioloogia)		44
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chức năng sinh học		39
10	Simple English (simple) Function (biology)		35

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وظيفة (علم الأحياء)
cs	Czech Funkce (biologie)
en	English Function (biology)
es	Spanish Función (biología)
et	Estonian Funktsioon (bioloogia)
fa	Persian کارکرد (زیست‌شناسی)
fi	Finnish Biologinen funktio
fr	French Fonction (biologie)
id	Indonesian Fungsi (biologi)
ko	Korean 기능 (생물학)
nl	Dutch Functie (biologie)
pt	Portuguese Função (biologia)
simple	Simple English Function (biology)
tr	Turkish İşlev (biyoloji)
uk	Ukrainian Функція (біологія)
ur	Urdu افعال (حیاتیات)
vi	Vietnamese Chức năng sinh học
zh	Chinese 功能 (生物学)

Best Rank

Simple English: #5800 01.2022

Global: #149173 02.2020

Best Rank

Simple English: #1748 09.2016

Global: #65914 11.2023

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