Star anise

Quality:

Illicium verum - species of plant. This taxon is the 826^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 731^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Star anise” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 731^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 826^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 1018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Illicium verum is on the 731^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 826^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 86 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4215 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #770 in January 2014
• Global: #6097 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5783 in August 2020
• Global: #15557 in December 2020

There are 43 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) Illicium verum		57.7563
2	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		54.2417
3	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		48.1526
4	Greek (el) Αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος		44.2313
5	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		43.5641
6	Polish (pl) Badian właściwy		43.1026
7	Hebrew (he) כוכב אניס		42.712
8	Romanian (ro) Anason stelat		41.8866
9	Persian (fa) بادیان ختایی		36.6893
10	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		35.732

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Illicium verum		4 868 425
2	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		1 282 113
3	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		784 395
4	German (de) Echter Sternanis		775 075
5	Chinese (zh) 八角		536 969
6	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		465 471
7	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		437 401
8	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		410 169
9	Italian (it) Illicium verum		390 138
10	Polish (pl) Badian właściwy		255 679

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		16 183
2	Spanish (es) Illicium verum		4 072
3	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		3 739
4	Indonesian (id) Bunga lawang		3 209
5	Chinese (zh) 八角		1 993
6	Portuguese (pt) Illicium verum		1 991
7	Russian (ru) Бадьян настоящий		1 970
8	German (de) Echter Sternanis		1 599
9	Italian (it) Illicium verum		1 382
10	Turkish (tr) Yıldız anason		580

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		236
2	German (de) Echter Sternanis		76
3	Italian (it) Illicium verum		55
4	Chinese (zh) 八角		47
5	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		42
6	Hungarian (hu) Csillagánizs		39
7	Vietnamese (vi) Đại hồi		38
8	Norwegian (no) Stjerneanis		34
9	Dutch (nl) Steranijs		33
10	French (fr) Badianier de Chine		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	Japanese (ja) トウシキミ		1
2	Arabic (ar) ليسوم حقيقي		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Illicium verum		0
4	Belarusian (be) Бадзян сапраўдны		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Звездовиден анасон		0
6	Catalan (ca) Anís estrellat		0
7	Czech (cs) Badyáník pravý		0
8	Danish (da) Stjerneanis (plante)		0
9	German (de) Echter Sternanis		0
10	Greek (el) Αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος		0

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

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