Y chromosome

Quality:

Y chromosome - sex chromosome in the XY sex-determination system. Article “Y chromosome” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.51 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Y chromosome”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1172 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5295 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #798 in March 2015
• Global: #9060 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8530 in July 2010
• Global: #15932 in August 2024

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	Greek (el) Χρωμόσωμα Υ		72.5776
2	English (en) Y chromosome		70.7762
3	Uzbek (uz) Y xromosoma		70.6117
4	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		58.7023
5	Galician (gl) Cromosoma Y		46.3217
6	Estonian (et) Y-kromosoom		45.6648
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Y-kromosom		43.5404
8	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		40.6261
9	German (de) Y-Chromosom		37.2792
10	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		36.7953

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Y chromosome		5 980 397
2	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		991 519
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		841 647
4	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		721 024
5	French (fr) Chromosome Y		511 168
6	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		280 683
7	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		276 668
8	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		275 601
9	Hindi (hi) वाई गुण सूत्र		193 138
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		186 150

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		10 713
2	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		2 497
3	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		2 242
4	German (de) Y-Chromosom		2 058
5	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		1 062
6	Persian (fa) کروموزوم Y		822
7	French (fr) Chromosome Y		779
8	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		294
9	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		294
10	Turkish (tr) Y Kromozomu		216

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		422
2	French (fr) Chromosome Y		97
3	German (de) Y-Chromosom		81
4	Russian (ru) Y-хромосома		61
5	Dutch (nl) Y-chromosoom		52
6	Japanese (ja) Y染色体		46
7	Chinese (zh) Y染色體		41
8	Hungarian (hu) Y-kromoszóma		36
9	Polish (pl) Chromosom Y		26
10	Hebrew (he) כרומוזום Y		23

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	Catalan (ca) Cromosoma Y		1
2	Persian (fa) کروموزوم Y		1
3	Korean (ko) Y 염색체		1
4	Arabic (ar) الصبغي Y		0
5	Belarusian (be) Y-храмасома		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Y-хромозома		0
7	Czech (cs) Chromozom Y		0
8	German (de) Y-Chromosom		0
9	Greek (el) Χρωμόσωμα Υ		0
10	English (en) Y chromosome		0

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

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