Phototaxis

Phototaxis - directed movement of a motile cell or organism in response to light. Article “Phototaxis” in German Wikipedia has 38 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Phototaxis”, its content was written by 48 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 72 times in German Wikipedia and cited 545 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #13810 in July 2018
• Global: #53615 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #103756 in February 2010
• Global: #205569 in September 2014

There are 18 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	English (en) Phototaxis		90.9172
2	German (de) Phototaxis		37.9544
3	Turkish (tr) Fototaksi		35.8219
4	Japanese (ja) 走光性		22.1962
5	Swedish (sv) Fototaxis		19.7433
6	Persian (fa) نوربازکنش		19.6813
7	Catalan (ca) Fototàxia		19.0247
8	Basque (eu) Fototaktismo		18.7609
9	Chinese (zh) 趋光性		17.1285
10	Greek (el) Φωτοτακτισμός		15.0002

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phototaxis		483 007
2	Japanese (ja) 走光性		237 646
3	Spanish (es) Fototaxia		160 346
4	Russian (ru) Фототаксис		133 115
5	German (de) Phototaxis		100 657
6	Chinese (zh) 趋光性		94 841
7	Polish (pl) Fototaksja		52 016
8	French (fr) Phototaxie		28 410
9	Ukrainian (uk) Фототаксис		23 873
10	Dutch (nl) Fototaxis		6 683

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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 "Phototaxis" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 走光性		1 378
2	English (en) Phototaxis		1 135
3	Chinese (zh) 趋光性		402
4	German (de) Phototaxis		140
5	Russian (ru) Фототаксис		135
6	Spanish (es) Fototaxia		130
7	French (fr) Phototaxie		109
8	Polish (pl) Fototaksja		70
9	Turkish (tr) Fototaksi		38
10	Korean (ko) 주광성		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phototaxis		65
2	German (de) Phototaxis		48
3	Russian (ru) Фототаксис		17
4	Spanish (es) Fototaxia		16
5	French (fr) Phototaxie		15
6	Japanese (ja) 走光性		12
7	Dutch (nl) Fototaxis		12
8	Polish (pl) Fototaksja		9
9	Turkish (tr) Fototaksi		7
10	Ukrainian (uk) Фототаксис		7

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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 "Phototaxis" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Fototaktismo		1
2	Arabic (ar) استجابة ضوئية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Fototàxia		0
4	German (de) Phototaxis		0
5	Greek (el) Φωτοτακτισμός		0
6	English (en) Phototaxis		0
7	Spanish (es) Fototaxia		0
8	Persian (fa) نوربازکنش		0
9	French (fr) Phototaxie		0
10	Japanese (ja) 走光性		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 "Phototaxis" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Phototaxis		144
2	German (de) Phototaxis		72
3	Chinese (zh) 趋光性		65
4	Japanese (ja) 走光性		63
5	French (fr) Phototaxie		42
6	Russian (ru) Фототаксис		37
7	Spanish (es) Fototaxia		26
8	Polish (pl) Fototaksja		25
9	Ukrainian (uk) Фототаксис		16
10	Persian (fa) نوربازکنش		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استجابة ضوئية
ca	Catalan Fototàxia
de	German Phototaxis
el	Greek Φωτοτακτισμός
en	English Phototaxis
es	Spanish Fototaxia
eu	Basque Fototaktismo
fa	Persian نوربازکنش
fr	French Phototaxie
ja	Japanese 走光性
ko	Korean 주광성
nl	Dutch Fototaxis
pl	Polish Fototaksja
ru	Russian Фототаксис
sv	Swedish Fototaxis
tr	Turkish Fototaksi
uk	Ukrainian Фототаксис
zh	Chinese 趋光性

Best Rank

German: #103756 02.2010

Global: #205569 09.2014

Best Rank

German: #13810 07.2018

Global: #53615 12.2003

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