Forceps

Forceps - handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects. Article “Forceps” in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.49 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Forceps”, its content was written by 128 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 212 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 389 times in English Wikipedia and cited 957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24858 in September 2010
• Global: #49540 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42744 in June 2009
• Global: #68775 in June 2009

There are 12 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		64.1097
2	English (en) Forceps		31.3913
3	Malay (ms) Forsep		31.2199
4	Latin (la) Forceps (instrumentum medicum)		31.207
5	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		23.6061
6	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		17.6873
7	Persian (fa) فورسپس		11.3027
8	Korean (ko) 겸자		4.3934
9	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		4.2472
10	Tamil (ta) சாவணம்		3.9154

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Forceps" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forceps		2 784 103
2	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		471 686
3	Persian (fa) فورسپس		123 115
4	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		27 544
5	Turkish (tr) Forseps		25 948
6	Korean (ko) 겸자		22 347
7	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		6 613
8	Tamil (ta) சாவணம்		3 007
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		2 614
10	Esperanto (eo) Forcepso		1 633

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Forceps" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forceps		7 418
2	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		879
3	Persian (fa) فورسپس		483
4	Korean (ko) 겸자		179
5	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		112
6	Turkish (tr) Forseps		86
7	Malay (ms) Forsep		31
8	Tamil (ta) சாவணம்		25
9	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		14
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		14

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

Language versions of the article "Forceps" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forceps		128
2	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		22
3	Persian (fa) فورسپس		16
4	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		13
5	Tamil (ta) சாவணம்		10
6	Korean (ko) 겸자		6
7	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		5
8	Esperanto (eo) Forcepso		4
9	Turkish (tr) Forseps		4
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		2

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

Language versions of the article "Forceps" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 겸자		1
2	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		0
4	English (en) Forceps		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Forcepso		0
6	Persian (fa) فورسپس		0
7	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		0
8	Latin (la) Forceps (instrumentum medicum)		0
9	Malay (ms) Forsep		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		0

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

Language versions of the article "Forceps" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Forceps		389
2	Arabic (ar) ملقط (أداة طبية)		324
3	Korean (ko) 겸자		67
4	Japanese (ja) 鉗子		58
5	Persian (fa) فورسپس		51
6	Catalan (ca) Fòrceps		21
7	Turkish (tr) Forseps		20
8	Tamil (ta) சாவணம்		7
9	Latin (la) Forceps (instrumentum medicum)		6
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forceps		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ملقط (أداة طبية)
ca	Catalan Fòrceps
en	English Forceps
eo	Esperanto Forcepso
fa	Persian فورسپس
ja	Japanese 鉗子
ko	Korean 겸자
la	Latin Forceps (instrumentum medicum)
ms	Malay Forsep
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Forceps
ta	Tamil சாவணம்
tr	Turkish Forseps

Best Rank

English: #42744 06.2009

Global: #68775 06.2009

Best Rank

English: #24858 09.2010

Global: #49540 09.2010

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