Genetic drift

Quality:

Genetic drift - variation in the relative frequency of different genotypes in a small population. Article “Genetic drift” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 3 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 “Genetic drift”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1136 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4847 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1383 in September 2007
• Global: #919 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3499 in February 2015
• Global: #16641 in February 2009

There are 47 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	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		87.5375
2	Turkish (tr) Genetik sürüklenme		85.1231
3	English (en) Genetic drift		81.1018
4	Estonian (et) Geenitriiv		75.5055
5	Thai (th) การเปลี่ยนความถี่ยีนอย่างไม่เจาะจง		72.1897
6	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		54.4507
7	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		49.7567
8	Vietnamese (vi) Phiêu bạt di truyền		36.6924
9	Indonesian (id) Hanyutan genetik		35.7864
10	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		31.9566

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Genetic drift		5 045 462
2	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		1 727 221
3	German (de) Gendrift		748 334
4	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		600 075
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		528 194
6	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		386 024
7	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		317 095
8	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		290 273
9	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		272 429
10	Polish (pl) Dryf genetyczny		266 844

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) Genetic drift		5 004
2	German (de) Gendrift		888
3	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		732
4	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		669
5	French (fr) Dérive génétique		548
6	Japanese (ja) 遺伝的浮動		522
7	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		434
8	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		277
9	Korean (ko) 유전적 부동		228
10	Dutch (nl) Genetische drift		202

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Genetic drift		267
2	French (fr) Dérive génétique		88
3	German (de) Gendrift		83
4	Spanish (es) Deriva genética		63
5	Russian (ru) Дрейф генов		55
6	Italian (it) Deriva genetica		49
7	Hebrew (he) סחף גנטי		47
8	Portuguese (pt) Deriva genética		34
9	Dutch (nl) Genetische drift		33
10	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		26

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	Arabic (ar) انحراف وراثي		2
2	English (en) Genetic drift		2
3	Belarusian (be) Генетычны дрэйф		1
4	Catalan (ca) Deriva genètica		1
5	Estonian (et) Geenitriiv		1
6	Basque (eu) Jito genetiko		1
7	Serbian (sr) Генетички дрифт		1
8	Chinese (zh) 遗传漂变		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Генетичен дрейф		0
10	Czech (cs) Genetický drift		0

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

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