Benzoic acid

Quality:

Benzoic acid - chemical compound. Article “Benzoic acid” in English Wikipedia has 80.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 64 references and 17 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Benzoic acid” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Benzoic acid”, its content was written by 283 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1414 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 680 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5017 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #339 in February 2002
• Global: #466 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4526 in September 2008
• Global: #5739 in September 2008

There are 46 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) Benzoic acid		80.3104
2	Tamil (ta) பென்சாயிக் அமிலம்		78.6254
3	Chinese (zh) 苯甲酸		55.996
4	Malay (ms) Asid benzoik		53.8612
5	Esperanto (eo) Benzoata acido		53.6311
6	Greek (el) Βενζοϊκό οξύ		51.9187
7	Russian (ru) Бензойная кислота		51.008
8	German (de) Benzoesäure		48.1504
9	Hungarian (hu) Benzoesav		48.1008
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Benzojeva kiselina		47.5415

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benzoic acid		8 399 194
2	Spanish (es) Ácido benzoico		2 511 001
3	German (de) Benzoesäure		2 002 676
4	Japanese (ja) 安息香酸		1 938 599
5	Russian (ru) Бензойная кислота		1 177 340
6	French (fr) Acide benzoïque		918 477
7	Chinese (zh) 苯甲酸		760 059
8	Polish (pl) Kwas benzoesowy		639 563
9	Portuguese (pt) Ácido benzoico		633 650
10	Italian (it) Acido benzoico		564 239

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) Benzoic acid		8 083
2	Japanese (ja) 安息香酸		3 247
3	German (de) Benzoesäure		3 053
4	Russian (ru) Бензойная кислота		1 262
5	Chinese (zh) 苯甲酸		1 069
6	French (fr) Acide benzoïque		947
7	Spanish (es) Ácido benzoico		830
8	Italian (it) Acido benzoico		595
9	Polish (pl) Kwas benzoesowy		566
10	Czech (cs) Kyselina benzoová		423

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benzoic acid		283
2	German (de) Benzoesäure		158
3	Italian (it) Acido benzoico		78
4	French (fr) Acide benzoïque		73
5	Russian (ru) Бензойная кислота		70
6	Dutch (nl) Benzoëzuur		68
7	Spanish (es) Ácido benzoico		55
8	Japanese (ja) 安息香酸		52
9	Chinese (zh) 苯甲酸		47
10	Polish (pl) Kwas benzoesowy		44

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	Chinese (zh) 苯甲酸		2
2	English (en) Benzoic acid		1
3	Finnish (fi) Bentsoehappo		1
4	French (fr) Acide benzoïque		1
5	Japanese (ja) 安息香酸		1
6	Polish (pl) Kwas benzoesowy		1
7	Tamil (ta) பென்சாயிக் அமிலம்		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Acid benzoic		1
9	Arabic (ar) حمض البنزويك		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Benzoy turşusu		0

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

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