Pituitary gland

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Pituitary gland - endocrine gland at the base of the brain. Referred to as the “master gland” because it monitors and regulates many bodily functions through the hormones that it produces, including growth and sexual/reproductive development and function.. Article “Pituitary gland” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 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:

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The 8064^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9703^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2467^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Pituitary gland”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9703^rd place) and edited by 2422 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10593 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #401 in December 2010
• Global: #567 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1419 in May 2012
• Global: #1555 in October 2013

There are 53 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) Pituitary gland		69.2298
2	Slovenian (sl) Hipofiza		53.8361
3	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		53.2692
4	Estonian (et) Ajuripats		48.9447
5	Turkish (tr) Hipofiz		46.824
6	Latin (la) Glandula pituitaria		46.2762
7	Catalan (ca) Hipòfisi		44.6029
8	Tamil (ta) கபச் சுரப்பி		44.0157
9	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		43.1538
10	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		43.006

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pituitary gland		16 232 029
2	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		11 851 836
3	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		3 924 193
4	German (de) Hypophyse		2 973 790
5	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		2 803 412
6	French (fr) Hypophyse		2 655 851
7	Italian (it) Ipofisi		2 308 973
8	Polish (pl) Przysadka mózgowa		1 491 057
9	Japanese (ja) 脳下垂体		1 345 473
10	Arabic (ar) غدة نخامية		1 305 994

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) Pituitary gland		31 802
2	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		9 096
3	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		6 240
4	French (fr) Hypophyse		3 938
5	German (de) Hypophyse		3 928
6	Chinese (zh) 腦下垂體		2 345
7	Korean (ko) 뇌하수체		2 264
8	Italian (it) Ipofisi		2 204
9	Polish (pl) Przysadka mózgowa		1 926
10	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		1 714

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pituitary gland		417
2	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		178
3	German (de) Hypophyse		170
4	French (fr) Hypophyse		131
5	Italian (it) Ipofisi		121
6	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		102
7	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		88
8	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		84
9	Hebrew (he) בלוטת יותרת המוח		74
10	Norwegian (no) Hypofyse		69

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	Czech (cs) Hypofýza		2
2	English (en) Pituitary gland		2
3	Indonesian (id) Kelenjar pituitari		2
4	Urdu (ur) غدۂ نخامیہ		2
5	Chinese (zh) 腦下垂體		2
6	Persian (fa) هیپوفیز		1
7	Italian (it) Ipofisi		1
8	Arabic (ar) غدة نخامية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Hipofiz		0
10	Belarusian (be) Гіпофіз		0

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

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