Archaea

Quality:

This taxon is the 132^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 163^rd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Archaea” in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 316 references and 36 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9583^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 163^rd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6515^th most popular in all topics.

The 5157^th most popular in AI.

The 132^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8651^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2944^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Archaea” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (8651^st place) and written by 38 authors in all languages (2944^th place).

Since the creation of article “Archaea”, its content was written by 866 registered users of English Wikipedia (9583^rd place) and edited by 3544 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5157^th place).

Archaea is on the 163^rd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 132^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2464 times in English Wikipedia and cited 14122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #621 in January 2011
• Global: #244 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3654 in September 2014
• Global: #3682 in September 2014

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	Slovenian (sl) Arheje		100
2	Spanish (es) Archaea		98.6443
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cổ khuẩn		97.8233
4	Japanese (ja) 古細菌		97.0953
5	Catalan (ca) Arqueus		96.9231
6	English (en) Archaea		96.2293
7	Portuguese (pt) Archaea		95.8192
8	Russian (ru) Археи		95.1379
9	Indonesian (id) Arkea		95.0089
10	Galician (gl) Arqueas		93.9727

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Archaea		14 065 949
2	Spanish (es) Archaea		7 143 053
3	Russian (ru) Археи		2 370 478
4	German (de) Archaeen		2 069 108
5	Japanese (ja) 古細菌		1 431 035
6	French (fr) Archaea		1 351 394
7	Portuguese (pt) Archaea		856 920
8	Italian (it) Archaea		745 441
9	Polish (pl) Archeony		684 114
10	Chinese (zh) 古菌		682 055

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) Archaea		35 746
2	Russian (ru) Археи		6 637
3	Spanish (es) Archaea		4 770
4	Japanese (ja) 古細菌		4 760
5	German (de) Archaeen		4 327
6	French (fr) Archaea		3 611
7	Chinese (zh) 古菌		2 322
8	Polish (pl) Archeony		1 975
9	Portuguese (pt) Archaea		1 501
10	Italian (it) Archaea		1 429

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Archaea		866
2	German (de) Archaeen		236
3	French (fr) Archaea		207
4	Spanish (es) Archaea		200
5	Italian (it) Archaea		147
6	Russian (ru) Археи		144
7	Japanese (ja) 古細菌		109
8	Dutch (nl) Archaea		97
9	Hungarian (hu) Archeák		87
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cổ khuẩn		82

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) Archaea		9
2	Czech (cs) Archea		2
3	Basque (eu) Archaea		2
4	Finnish (fi) Arkeonit		2
5	Hebrew (he) ארכאונים		2
6	Croatian (hr) Arheje		2
7	Hungarian (hu) Archeák		2
8	Italian (it) Archaea		2
9	Chinese (zh) 古菌		2
10	Belarusian (be) Археі		1

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

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