Y chromosome

Quality:

Y chromosome - sex chromosome in the XY sex-determination system. Article “Y chromosome” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.55 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Y chromosome”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1164 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5040 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #798 in March 2015
• Global: #9063 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8483 in July 2010
• Global: #15952 in August 2024

There are 41 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) Y chromosome		74.6227
2	Greek (el) Χρωμόσωμα Υ		71.7897
3	Uzbek (uz) Y xromosoma		70.5349
4	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		58.8182
5	Estonian (et) Y-kromosoom		46.9538
6	Galician (gl) Cromosoma Y		46.1552
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Y-kromosom		43.5404
8	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		40.5721
9	German (de) Y-Chromosom		38.1077
10	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		34.9774

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Y chromosome		5 835 495
2	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		898 134
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		815 646
4	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		698 282
5	French (fr) Chromosome Y		497 534
6	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		271 544
7	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		270 418
8	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		265 262
9	Hindi (hi) वाई गुण सूत्र		191 929
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		181 614

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) Y chromosome		16 651
2	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		3 760
3	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		1 543
4	German (de) Y-Chromosom		1 535
5	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		1 216
6	French (fr) Chromosome Y		1 169
7	Persian (fa) کروموزوم Y		666
8	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		538
9	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		413
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		381

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Y chromosome		411
2	French (fr) Chromosome Y		94
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		78
4	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		60
5	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		52
6	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		43
7	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		41
8	Norwegian (no) Y-kromosom		40
9	Hungarian (hu) Y-kromoszóma		36
10	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		25

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) Y chromosome		3
2	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Y-хромосома		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nhiễm sắc thể Y		1
5	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		1
6	Arabic (ar) الصبغي Y		0
7	Belarusian (be) Y-храмасома		0
8	Catalan (ca) Cromosoma Y		0
9	Czech (cs) Chromozom Y		0
10	German (de) Y-Chromosom		0

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

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