Speciation

Quality:

Speciation - evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. Article “Speciation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 88.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 50 references and 14 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Speciation”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1488 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 111 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6801 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #374 in November 2022
• Global: #245 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #655 in April 2012
• Global: #6881 in December 2014

There are 46 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	Thai (th) การเกิดสปีชีส์		98.6517
2	English (en) Speciation		95.0131
3	Simple English (simple) Speciation		88.7575
4	Chinese (zh) 物种形成		55.9728
5	German (de) Artbildung		55.9671
6	Portuguese (pt) Especiação		55.0817
7	Estonian (et) Liigiteke		51.8188
8	Arabic (ar) انتواع		51.5508
9	Italian (it) Speciazione (evoluzione)		47.6722
10	Indonesian (id) Spesiasi		47.0523

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speciation		4 052 920
2	Spanish (es) Especiación		2 690 062
3	Russian (ru) Видообразование		848 169
4	Portuguese (pt) Especiação		699 267
5	French (fr) Spéciation		566 101
6	German (de) Artbildung		411 843
7	Italian (it) Speciazione (evoluzione)		385 914
8	Polish (pl) Powstawanie gatunków		227 369
9	Japanese (ja) 種分化		206 378
10	Chinese (zh) 物种形成		173 032

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) Speciation		5 014
2	German (de) Artbildung		769
3	Spanish (es) Especiación		734
4	French (fr) Spéciation		559
5	Italian (it) Speciazione (evoluzione)		490
6	Russian (ru) Видообразование		485
7	Chinese (zh) 物种形成		472
8	Japanese (ja) 種分化		420
9	Simple English (simple) Speciation		201
10	Polish (pl) Powstawanie gatunków		169

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Speciation		420
2	German (de) Artbildung		126
3	French (fr) Spéciation		114
4	Spanish (es) Especiación		87
5	Italian (it) Speciazione (evoluzione)		76
6	Russian (ru) Видообразование		75
7	Portuguese (pt) Especiação		50
8	Danish (da) Artsdannelse		45
9	Polish (pl) Powstawanie gatunków		42
10	Galician (gl) Especiación		32

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	English (en) Speciation		3
2	Spanish (es) Especiación		2
3	Arabic (ar) انتواع		1
4	Basque (eu) Espeziazio		1
5	French (fr) Spéciation		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Növləşmə		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Видообразуване		0
8	Catalan (ca) Especiació		0
9	Czech (cs) Speciace		0
10	Danish (da) Artsdannelse		0

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

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