Star anise

Quality:

Illicium verum - species of plant. This taxon is the 836^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 780^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Star anise” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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:

The 780^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 836^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Star anise”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 996 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Illicium verum is on the 780^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 836^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 86 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4190 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #771 in January 2014
• Global: #6678 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5818 in August 2020
• Global: #15813 in December 2020

There are 42 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) Illicium verum		57.5901
2	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		53.9721
3	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		47.6865
4	Greek (el) Αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος		44.3679
5	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		43.4996
6	Hebrew (he) כוכב אניס		42.1864
7	Polish (pl) Badian właściwy		41.9015
8	Romanian (ro) Anason stelat		41.8177
9	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		35.7527
10	Chinese (zh) 八角		34.9946

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Illicium verum		5 078 511
2	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		1 334 784
3	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		829 062
4	German (de) Echter Sternanis		806 565
5	Chinese (zh) 八角		559 876
6	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		490 560
7	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		465 302
8	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		429 230
9	Italian (it) Illicium verum		408 869
10	Polish (pl) Badian właściwy		266 695

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) Illicium verum		11 824
2	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		2 836
3	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		2 648
4	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		1 922
5	Chinese (zh) 八角		1 604
6	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		1 556
7	German (de) Echter Sternanis		1 257
8	Italian (it) Illicium verum		1 039
9	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		942
10	Persian (fa) بادیان ختایی		788

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Illicium verum		241
2	German (de) Echter Sternanis		77
3	Italian (it) Illicium verum		56
4	Chinese (zh) 八角		47
5	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		44
6	Hungarian (hu) Csillagánizs		39
7	Vietnamese (vi) Đại hồi		39
8	French (fr) Badianier de Chine		36
9	Dutch (nl) Steranijs		33
10	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		31

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) Badyáník pravý		1
2	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		1
3	Galician (gl) Anís estrelado		1
4	Hebrew (he) כוכב אניס		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đại hồi		1
6	Arabic (ar) ليسوم حقيقي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Illicium verum		0
8	Belarusian (be) Бадзян сапраўдны		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Звездовиден анасон		0
10	Catalan (ca) Anís estrellat		0

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

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