Goblin shark

Quality:

Goblin shark - deep-sea shark. This taxon is the 887^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 959^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Goblin shark” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 959^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 887^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9546^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Goblin shark”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1218 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Goblin shark is on the 959^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 887^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #352 in April 2016
• Global: #1373 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2010 in May 2014
• Global: #338 in May 2014

There are 39 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	English (en) Goblin shark		80.6916
2	Indonesian (id) Hiu goblin		78.2858
3	Hungarian (hu) Koboldcápa		75.5515
4	Chinese (zh) 欧氏尖吻鲛		71.6966
5	Czech (cs) Žralok šotek		65.3227
6	Arabic (ar) قرش عفريت		51.8191
7	Galician (gl) Quenlla fociñuda		50.7407
8	Italian (it) Mitsukurina owstoni		47.577
9	Simple English (simple) Goblin shark		44.5099
10	Polish (pl) Mitsukurina		44.3691

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Goblin shark		6 531 464
2	Spanish (es) Mitsukurina owstoni		794 469
3	German (de) Koboldhai		766 314
4	Japanese (ja) ミツクリザメ		702 159
5	Russian (ru) Акула-домовой		682 544
6	French (fr) Requin-lutin		518 824
7	Italian (it) Mitsukurina owstoni		315 221
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-duende		297 428
9	Polish (pl) Mitsukurina		229 853
10	Chinese (zh) 欧氏尖吻鲛		145 825

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) Goblin shark		36 121
2	German (de) Koboldhai		9 181
3	Russian (ru) Акула-домовой		5 639
4	Dutch (nl) Koboldhaai		5 468
5	Japanese (ja) ミツクリザメ		3 824
6	French (fr) Requin-lutin		3 715
7	Spanish (es) Mitsukurina owstoni		2 421
8	Polish (pl) Mitsukurina		1 985
9	Italian (it) Mitsukurina owstoni		1 964
10	Czech (cs) Žralok šotek		1 120

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Goblin shark		414
2	French (fr) Requin-lutin		85
3	German (de) Koboldhai		75
4	Italian (it) Mitsukurina owstoni		72
5	Dutch (nl) Koboldhaai		60
6	Spanish (es) Mitsukurina owstoni		49
7	Japanese (ja) ミツクリザメ		46
8	Russian (ru) Акула-домовой		44
9	Hebrew (he) כריש גובלין		33
10	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-duende		33

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	Hungarian (hu) Koboldcápa		3
2	Serbian (sr) Ајкула гоблин		3
3	Czech (cs) Žralok šotek		2
4	English (en) Goblin shark		2
5	Dutch (nl) Koboldhaai		2
6	Arabic (ar) قرش عفريت		1
7	Spanish (es) Mitsukurina owstoni		1
8	French (fr) Requin-lutin		1
9	Galician (gl) Quenlla fociñuda		1
10	Indonesian (id) Hiu goblin		1

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

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