Pituitary gland

Quality:

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 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 8438^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2591^st most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2446^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pituitary gland” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2446^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pituitary gland”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10798 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): #1423 in May 2012
• Global: #1512 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, 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) Pituitary gland		69.0049
2	Slovenian (sl) Hipofiza		53.632
3	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		52.6474
4	Estonian (et) Ajuripats		48.0962
5	Latin (la) Glandula pituitaria		47.267
6	Turkish (tr) Hipofiz		46.931
7	Catalan (ca) Hipòfisi		44.7288
8	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		44.1761
9	Tamil (ta) கபச் சுரப்பி		43.7596
10	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		42.8662

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pituitary gland		16 551 076
2	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		11 927 788
3	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		4 690 102
4	German (de) Hypophyse		3 027 946
5	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		2 819 184
6	French (fr) Hypophyse		2 716 634
7	Italian (it) Ipofisi		2 339 138
8	Polish (pl) Przysadka mózgowa		1 517 387
9	Japanese (ja) 脳下垂体		1 363 305
10	Arabic (ar) غدة نخامية		1 323 908

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		19 342
2	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		5 124
3	French (fr) Hypophyse		4 867
4	German (de) Hypophyse		4 074
5	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		3 271
6	Italian (it) Ipofisi		1 942
7	Persian (fa) هیپوفیز		1 777
8	Polish (pl) Przysadka mózgowa		1 617
9	Chinese (zh) 腦下垂體		1 316
10	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		1 081

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		421
2	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		179
3	German (de) Hypophyse		170
4	French (fr) Hypophyse		134
5	Italian (it) Ipofisi		122
6	Russian (ru) Гипофиз человека		108
7	Dutch (nl) Hypofyse		91
8	Portuguese (pt) Hipófise		85
9	Hebrew (he) בלוטת יותרת המוח		76
10	Danish (da) Hypofyse		60

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	Serbian (sr) Хипофиза		3
2	English (en) Pituitary gland		2
3	Catalan (ca) Hipòfisi		1
4	Spanish (es) Hipófisis		1
5	Hebrew (he) בלוטת יותרת המוח		1
6	Japanese (ja) 脳下垂体		1
7	Simple English (simple) Pituitary gland		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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