Virus

Quality:

Virus - non-cellular, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. This taxon is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 15^th most popular taxon in Catalan Wikipedia. Article “Virus” in Catalan Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 192 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Catalan Wikipedia:

ca

The 259^th most popular in Catalan Wikipedia.

ca

The 656^th most editable in Catalan Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in taxon in Catalan Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 543^rd most popular in all topics.

The 754^th most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Catalan Wikipedia:

ca

The 5951^st most popular in Catalan Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3574^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Virus” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 34 authors in all languages (3574^th place).

Since the creation of article “Virus”, its content was written by 85 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia (656^th place) and edited by 7118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (754^th place).

Virus is on the 15^th place in local ranking of taxon in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 920 times in Catalan Wikipedia (3086^th place) and cited 38225 times in all languages (4416^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #10 in April 2021
• Global: #10 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #29 in May 2020
• Global: #12 in March 2020

There are 54 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	Polish (pl) Wirusy		100
2	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		100
3	Indonesian (id) Virus		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		100
5	Catalan (ca) Virus		100
6	Armenian (hy) Վիրուսներ		100
7	Arabic (ar) فيروس		100
8	Vietnamese (vi) Virus		99.105
9	Spanish (es) Virus		98.8921
10	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		98.8812

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virus		31 990 990
2	Spanish (es) Virus		22 979 369
3	Russian (ru) Вирусы		9 582 164
4	German (de) Viren		6 745 434
5	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		5 935 507
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 302 662
7	Indonesian (id) Virus		4 757 080
8	French (fr) Virus		4 662 704
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 936 797
10	Polish (pl) Wirusy		3 195 764

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) Virus		39 516
2	Russian (ru) Вирусы		11 195
3	Spanish (es) Virus		6 311
4	German (de) Viren		4 698
5	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		4 413
6	Persian (fa) ویروس		3 705
7	Chinese (zh) 病毒		3 663
8	French (fr) Virus		3 194
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		2 799
10	Polish (pl) Wirusy		2 330

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virus		1 323
2	German (de) Viren		569
3	French (fr) Virus		427
4	Spanish (es) Virus		395
5	Russian (ru) Вирусы		336
6	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		287
7	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		238
8	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		235
9	Hebrew (he) נגיף		208
10	Chinese (zh) 病毒		193

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) Virus		6
2	German (de) Viren		4
3	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		4
4	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		4
5	Arabic (ar) فيروس		2
6	Danish (da) Virus		2
7	Basque (eu) Birus		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		2
9	Catalan (ca) Virus		1
10	Spanish (es) Virus		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information