Prion

Quality:

Prion - pathogenic type of misfolded protein. Article “Prion” in German Wikipedia has 50.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 33 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7562^nd most popular in all topics.

The 8232^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8703^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Prion” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Prion”, its content was written by 213 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2827 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8232^nd place).

The article is cited 135 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3275 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #647 in August 2002
• Global: #82 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3294 in March 2020
• Global: #2099 in March 2020

There are 49 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) Prion		89.1965
2	Chinese (zh) 朊毒體		89.1544
3	Russian (ru) Прионы		84.3433
4	Armenian (hy) Պրիոններ		74.7643
5	Estonian (et) Prioonid		58.8579
6	Slovak (sk) Prión		57.0253
7	Catalan (ca) Prió		51.0998
8	German (de) Prion		50.3773
9	French (fr) Prion (protéine)		46.6556
10	Italian (it) Prione		42.834

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prion		14 826 577
2	Spanish (es) Prion		3 197 796
3	Russian (ru) Прионы		3 012 524
4	Japanese (ja) プリオン		1 881 429
5	German (de) Prion		1 781 249
6	Chinese (zh) 朊毒體		1 288 861
7	French (fr) Prion (protéine)		1 158 146
8	Polish (pl) Priony		992 788
9	Italian (it) Prione		917 832
10	Portuguese (pt) Príon		854 798

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) Prion		51 079
2	Russian (ru) Прионы		16 305
3	German (de) Prion		6 601
4	Chinese (zh) 朊毒體		5 922
5	Japanese (ja) プリオン		5 168
6	Polish (pl) Priony		3 918
7	Spanish (es) Prion		3 767
8	French (fr) Prion (protéine)		3 464
9	Italian (it) Prione		2 229
10	Portuguese (pt) Príon		1 503

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prion		803
2	German (de) Prion		213
3	French (fr) Prion (protéine)		160
4	Spanish (es) Prion		155
5	Chinese (zh) 朊毒體		141
6	Russian (ru) Прионы		139
7	Italian (it) Prione		126
8	Dutch (nl) Prion		89
9	Japanese (ja) プリオン		75
10	Hebrew (he) פריון (חלבון)		66

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) Prion		4
2	German (de) Prion		3
3	Arabic (ar) بريون		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Прион		1
5	Catalan (ca) Prió		1
6	Basque (eu) Prioi		1
7	Japanese (ja) プリオン		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Prion		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Пріони		1
10	Chinese (zh) 朊毒體		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