Horizontal gene transfer

Horizontal gene transfer - movement of genetic material between organisms other than by transmission from parent to offspring. Article “Horizontal gene transfer” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 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 “Horizontal gene transfer”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 939 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2971 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1643 in November 2014
• Global: #10401 in May 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9420 in April 2012
• Global: #36511 in March 2015

There are 33 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) Horizontal gene transfer		92.5393
2	Estonian (et) Horisontaalne geeniülekanne		74.1546
3	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		60.0389
4	Arabic (ar) نقل الجينات الأفقي		53.9893
5	Hungarian (hu) Horizontális géntranszfer		49.5375
6	Galician (gl) Transferencia horizontal de xenes		49.2383
7	German (de) Horizontaler Gentransfer		47.2199
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển gen ngang		47.1624
9	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		44.6264
10	Turkish (tr) Yatay gen transferi		43.3661

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Horizontal gene transfer" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horizontal gene transfer		3 365 938
2	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		558 269
3	German (de) Horizontaler Gentransfer		360 127
4	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子の水平伝播		334 025
5	Russian (ru) Горизонтальный перенос генов		309 645
6	French (fr) Transfert horizontal de gènes		270 034
7	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		154 095
8	Polish (pl) Poziomy transfer genów		148 262
9	Italian (it) Trasferimento genico orizzontale		135 185
10	Chinese (zh) 基因水平轉移		108 216

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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 "Horizontal gene transfer" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horizontal gene transfer		6 528
2	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子の水平伝播		967
3	Russian (ru) Горизонтальный перенос генов		709
4	French (fr) Transfert horizontal de gènes		484
5	German (de) Horizontaler Gentransfer		433
6	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		332
7	Chinese (zh) 基因水平轉移		332
8	Italian (it) Trasferimento genico orizzontale		213
9	Polish (pl) Poziomy transfer genów		179
10	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		149

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Horizontal gene transfer		326
2	German (de) Horizontaler Gentransfer		79
3	French (fr) Transfert horizontal de gènes		66
4	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		49
5	Polish (pl) Poziomy transfer genów		35
6	Italian (it) Trasferimento genico orizzontale		30
7	Russian (ru) Горизонтальный перенос генов		30
8	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子の水平伝播		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		28
10	Danish (da) Horisontal genoverførsel		27

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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 "Horizontal gene transfer" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نقل الجينات الأفقي		1
2	English (en) Horizontal gene transfer		1
3	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		1
4	Estonian (et) Horisontaalne geeniülekanne		1
5	Galician (gl) Transferencia horizontal de xenes		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		1
7	Chinese (zh) 基因水平轉移		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Хоризонтален генен трансфер		0
9	Catalan (ca) Transferència horitzontal de gens		0
10	Czech (cs) Horizontální přenos genetické informace		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 "Horizontal gene transfer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Horizontal gene transfer		870
2	German (de) Horizontaler Gentransfer		247
3	Russian (ru) Горизонтальный перенос генов		226
4	Galician (gl) Transferencia horizontal de xenes		155
5	Spanish (es) Transferencia genética horizontal		150
6	Ukrainian (uk) Горизонтальне перенесення генів		143
7	French (fr) Transfert horizontal de gènes		119
8	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子の水平伝播		110
9	Chinese (zh) 基因水平轉移		84
10	Portuguese (pt) Transferência horizontal de genes		79

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقل الجينات الأفقي
bg	Bulgarian Хоризонтален генен трансфер
ca	Catalan Transferència horitzontal de gens
cs	Czech Horizontální přenos genetické informace
da	Danish Horisontal genoverførsel
de	German Horizontaler Gentransfer
el	Greek Οριζόντια μεταφορά γονιδίων
en	English Horizontal gene transfer
es	Spanish Transferencia genética horizontal
et	Estonian Horisontaalne geeniülekanne
eu	Basque Geneen transferentzia horizontala
fa	Persian انتقال افقی ژن
fi	Finnish Horisontaalinen geeninsiirto
fr	French Transfert horizontal de gènes
gl	Galician Transferencia horizontal de xenes
he	Hebrew העברה גנטית אופקית
hu	Hungarian Horizontális géntranszfer
id	Indonesian Transfer gen horizontal
it	Italian Trasferimento genico orizzontale
ja	Japanese 遺伝子の水平伝播
ko	Korean 수평적 유전자 이동
nl	Dutch Horizontale genoverdracht
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Horisontal genoverføring
pl	Polish Poziomy transfer genów
pt	Portuguese Transferência horizontal de genes
ru	Russian Горизонтальный перенос генов
simple	Simple English Horizontal gene transfer
sv	Swedish Genöverföring
th	Thai การถ่ายทอดยีนในแนวราบ
tr	Turkish Yatay gen transferi
uk	Ukrainian Горизонтальне перенесення генів
vi	Vietnamese Chuyển gen ngang
zh	Chinese 基因水平轉移

Best Rank

Simple English: #9420 04.2012

Global: #36511 03.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #1643 11.2014

Global: #10401 05.2018

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