Gene targeting

Gene targeting - genetic technique that uses homologous recombination to change an endogenous gene. Article “Gene targeting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Gene targeting”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 513 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1377 in April 2012
• Global: #23624 in October 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17802 in March 2017
• Global: #264669 in January 2008

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	English (en) Gene targeting		73.1253
2	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		44.4945
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ciljanje gena		34.0119
4	Galician (gl) Gene targeting		30.7568
5	Simple English (simple) Gene targeting		30.727
6	Serbian (sr) Ciljanje gena		27.1008
7	Chinese (zh) 基因靶向		23.8043
8	Persian (fa) هدف‌گیری ژنی		23.0921
9	Arabic (ar) استهداف الجين		22.3203
10	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子ターゲティング		17.3113

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Gene targeting" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gene targeting		461 910
2	German (de) Gene-Targeting		89 822
3	Italian (it) Gene targeting		61 476
4	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子ターゲティング		42 324
5	Chinese (zh) 基因靶向		36 816
6	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		32 687
7	Arabic (ar) استهداف الجين		10 160
8	French (fr) Gene targeting		9 714
9	Indonesian (id) Penargetan gen		8 633
10	Simple English (simple) Gene targeting		5 186

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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 "Gene targeting" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gene targeting		726
2	Chinese (zh) 基因靶向		118
3	Simple English (simple) Gene targeting		117
4	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子ターゲティング		97
5	German (de) Gene-Targeting		76
6	Serbian (sr) Ciljanje gena		50
7	Italian (it) Gene targeting		31
8	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		26
9	French (fr) Gene targeting		18
10	Slovenian (sl) Ciljanje genov		17

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gene targeting		59
2	German (de) Gene-Targeting		36
3	Italian (it) Gene targeting		28
4	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		13
5	French (fr) Gene targeting		9
6	Arabic (ar) استهداف الجين		7
7	Chinese (zh) 基因靶向		7
8	Serbian (sr) Ciljanje gena		6
9	Persian (fa) هدف‌گیری ژنی		5
10	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子ターゲティング		5

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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 "Gene targeting" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Gene-Targeting		1
2	Arabic (ar) استهداف الجين		0
3	Catalan (ca) Modificació gènica dirigida		0
4	English (en) Gene targeting		0
5	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		0
6	Persian (fa) هدف‌گیری ژنی		0
7	French (fr) Gene targeting		0
8	Galician (gl) Gene targeting		0
9	Indonesian (id) Penargetan gen		0
10	Italian (it) Gene targeting		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 "Gene targeting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Gene targeting		148
2	French (fr) Gene targeting		96
3	Arabic (ar) استهداف الجين		57
4	Chinese (zh) 基因靶向		56
5	Persian (fa) هدف‌گیری ژنی		39
6	Italian (it) Gene targeting		39
7	German (de) Gene-Targeting		20
8	Galician (gl) Gene targeting		13
9	Spanish (es) Gene targeting		12
10	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子ターゲティング		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استهداف الجين
ca	Catalan Modificació gènica dirigida
de	German Gene-Targeting
en	English Gene targeting
es	Spanish Gene targeting
fa	Persian هدف‌گیری ژنی
fr	French Gene targeting
gl	Galician Gene targeting
id	Indonesian Penargetan gen
it	Italian Gene targeting
ja	Japanese 遺伝子ターゲティング
sh	Serbo-Croatian Ciljanje gena
simple	Simple English Gene targeting
sl	Slovenian Ciljanje genov
sr	Serbian Ciljanje gena
zh	Chinese 基因靶向

Best Rank

Simple English: #17802 03.2017

Global: #264669 01.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #1377 04.2012

Global: #23624 10.2007

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