Istanbul University

This university is the 243^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 785^th most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia and the 731^st most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Istanbul University” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Turkish.

Since the creation of article “Istanbul University”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

İstanbul Üniversitesi is on the 785^th place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 243^rd place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

İstanbul Üniversitesi is on the 731^st place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 434^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9452 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2066 in June 2019
• Global: #7549 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #31241 in June 2019
• Global: #52566 in May 2013

There are 41 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	Malay (ms) Universiti Istanbul		95.3846
2	Azerbaijani (az) İstanbul Universiteti		85.7986
3	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		85.0661
4	English (en) Istanbul University		77.9235
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đại học Istanbul		54.1204
6	Ukrainian (uk) Стамбульський університет		38.1905
7	German (de) Universität Istanbul		34.0877
8	Indonesian (id) Universitas Istanbul		33.0179
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Univerzitet u Istanbulu		32.3648
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه استانبول		30.5604

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Istanbul University" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		2 156 540
2	English (en) Istanbul University		1 114 478
3	Russian (ru) Стамбульский университет		237 414
4	Arabic (ar) جامعة إسطنبول		232 889
5	German (de) Universität Istanbul		183 487
6	Persian (fa) دانشگاه استانبول		118 453
7	French (fr) Université d'Istanbul		117 339
8	Spanish (es) Universidad de Estambul		86 078
9	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Stambulski		52 084
10	Japanese (ja) イスタンブール大学		48 723

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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 "Istanbul University" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		5 323
2	English (en) Istanbul University		4 006
3	Russian (ru) Стамбульский университет		557
4	German (de) Universität Istanbul		489
5	Persian (fa) دانشگاه استانبول		227
6	Chinese (zh) 伊斯坦布尔大学		222
7	Spanish (es) Universidad de Estambul		200
8	Japanese (ja) イスタンブール大学		181
9	French (fr) Université d'Istanbul		162
10	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Stambulski		134

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Istanbul University		254
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		227
3	German (de) Universität Istanbul		89
4	French (fr) Université d'Istanbul		69
5	Russian (ru) Стамбульский университет		40
6	Arabic (ar) جامعة إسطنبول		28
7	Italian (it) Università di Istanbul		28
8	Dutch (nl) Universiteit van Istanbul		28
9	Persian (fa) دانشگاه استانبول		25
10	Azerbaijani (az) İstanbul Universiteti		24

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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 "Istanbul University" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		5
2	English (en) Istanbul University		2
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة إسطنبول		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) İstanbul Universiteti		0
5	Belarusian (be) Стамбульскі ўніверсітэт		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Истанбулски университет		0
7	Catalan (ca) Universitat d'Istanbul		0
8	Czech (cs) Istanbulská univerzita		0
9	German (de) Universität Istanbul		0
10	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Κωνσταντινούπολης		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 "Istanbul University" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Turkish (tr) İstanbul Üniversitesi		2 073
2	English (en) Istanbul University		1 768
3	German (de) Universität Istanbul		735
4	Arabic (ar) جامعة إسطنبول		502
5	Russian (ru) Стамбульский университет		472
6	French (fr) Université d'Istanbul		465
7	Azerbaijani (az) İstanbul Universiteti		438
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه استانبول		255
9	Italian (it) Università di Istanbul		228
10	Spanish (es) Universidad de Estambul		223

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جامعة إسطنبول
az	Azerbaijani İstanbul Universiteti
be	Belarusian Стамбульскі ўніверсітэт
bg	Bulgarian Истанбулски университет
ca	Catalan Universitat d'Istanbul
cs	Czech Istanbulská univerzita
de	German Universität Istanbul
el	Greek Πανεπιστήμιο της Κωνσταντινούπολης
en	English Istanbul University
eo	Esperanto Universitato de Istanbulo
es	Spanish Universidad de Estambul
et	Estonian İstanbuli Ülikool
fa	Persian دانشگاه استانبول
fi	Finnish Istanbulin yliopisto
fr	French Université d'Istanbul
he	Hebrew אוניברסיטת איסטנבול
hy	Armenian Ստամբուլի համալսարան
id	Indonesian Universitas Istanbul
it	Italian Università di Istanbul
ja	Japanese イスタンブール大学
ka	Georgian სტამბოლის უნივერსიტეტი
kk	Kazakh Ыстанбұл университеті
ko	Korean 이스탄불 대학교
la	Latin Universitas Istanbulensis
lt	Lithuanian Stambulo universitetas
ms	Malay Universiti Istanbul
nl	Dutch Universiteit van Istanbul
pl	Polish Uniwersytet Stambulski
pt	Portuguese Universidade de Istambul
ro	Romanian Universitatea din Istanbul
ru	Russian Стамбульский университет
sh	Serbo-Croatian Univerzitet u Istanbulu
simple	Simple English Istanbul University
sr	Serbian Универзитет у Истанбулу
sv	Swedish Istanbuls universitet
tr	Turkish İstanbul Üniversitesi
uk	Ukrainian Стамбульський університет
ur	Urdu استنبول یونیورسٹی
uz	Uzbek Istanbul universiteti
vi	Vietnamese Đại học Istanbul
zh	Chinese 伊斯坦布尔大学

Best Rank

Simple English: #31241 06.2019

Global: #52566 05.2013

Best Rank

Simple English: #2066 06.2019

Global: #7549 03.2012

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