Catcher

Catcher - defensive position in baseball and softball played behind home plate, facing the field. Article “Catcher” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.5 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.

Since the creation of article “Catcher”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 77 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 18581 times in all languages (8968^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2636 in June 2008
• Global: #13649 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9883 in September 2008
• Global: #38791 in May 2008

There are 16 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) Catcher		70.9902
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		66.3712
3	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		30.9623
4	Korean (ko) 포수		20.7259
5	Swedish (sv) Catcher		20.0307
6	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		19.5822
7	German (de) Catcher		18.789
8	Spanish (es) Cácher		18.3605
9	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		16.2223
10	Chinese (zh) 捕手		15.4846

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catcher		1 764 453
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		1 047 085
3	Spanish (es) Cácher		461 181
4	German (de) Catcher		112 651
5	Chinese (zh) 捕手		111 026
6	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		76 388
7	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		72 069
8	Korean (ko) 포수		67 998
9	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		64 460
10	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		42 317

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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 "Catcher" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catcher		9 619
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		3 358
3	Spanish (es) Cácher		786
4	Chinese (zh) 捕手		601
5	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		455
6	Korean (ko) 포수		360
7	German (de) Catcher		298
8	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		244
9	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		165
10	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		90

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catcher		310
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		154
3	German (de) Catcher		38
4	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		38
5	Korean (ko) 포수		34
6	Spanish (es) Cácher		30
7	Chinese (zh) 捕手		26
8	Dutch (nl) Achtervanger		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		14
10	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		12

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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 "Catcher" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catcher		1
2	Spanish (es) Cácher		1
3	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		1
4	Korean (ko) 포수		1
5	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		1
6	Arabic (ar) ملتقط		0
7	German (de) Catcher		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Ricevulo		0
9	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 捕手		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 "Catcher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Catcher		7 460
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		5 035
3	Korean (ko) 포수		1 413
4	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		1 086
5	Arabic (ar) ملتقط		1 072
6	Chinese (zh) 捕手		918
7	Spanish (es) Cácher		501
8	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		244
9	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		216
10	German (de) Catcher		204

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ملتقط
de	German Catcher
en	English Catcher
eo	Esperanto Ricevulo
es	Spanish Cácher
fr	French Receveur (baseball)
it	Italian Ricevitore (baseball)
ja	Japanese 捕手
ko	Korean 포수
ms	Malay Penangkap (besbol)
nl	Dutch Achtervanger
pt	Portuguese Receptor (beisebol)
ru	Russian Кетчер (бейсбол)
simple	Simple English Catcher
sv	Swedish Catcher
zh	Chinese 捕手

Best Rank

Simple English: #9883 09.2008

Global: #38791 05.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #2636 06.2008

Global: #13649 06.2004

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