Chinese alchemy

Chinese alchemy - ancient Chinese scientific and technological approach to alchemy. Article “Chinese alchemy” in English Wikipedia has 47.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.44 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Chinese alchemy”, its content was written by 119 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 308 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 348 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1018 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #30330 in March 2024
• Global: #60779 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #233789 in October 2012
• Global: #66898 in July 2010

There are 8 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, 2025 (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) Chinese alchemy		47.8095
2	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		33.1843
3	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		28.1843
4	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		18.3794
5	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		16.2227
6	Korean (ko) 연단술		13.1787
7	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		9.339
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		1.7016

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		708 679
2	English (en) Chinese alchemy		684 241
3	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		247 901
4	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		121 081
5	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		93 751
6	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		56 705
7	Korean (ko) 연단술		17 998
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		2 357

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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 "Chinese alchemy" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chinese alchemy		4 127
2	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		2 668
3	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		1 088
4	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		257
5	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		209
6	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		180
7	Korean (ko) 연단술		65
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chinese alchemy		119
2	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		47
3	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		43
4	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		30
5	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		27
6	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		26
7	Korean (ko) 연단술		10
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		6

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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 "Chinese alchemy" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		1
2	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		0
3	English (en) Chinese alchemy		0
4	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		0
5	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		0
6	Korean (ko) 연단술		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		0
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		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 "Chinese alchemy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Chinese alchemy		348
2	Japanese (ja) 錬丹術		233
3	Chinese (zh) 炼丹		162
4	Portuguese (pt) Alquimia chinesa		123
5	French (fr) Alchimie taoïste		68
6	German (de) Chinesische Alchemie		63
7	Korean (ko) 연단술		15
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kineska alhemija		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German Chinesische Alchemie
en	English Chinese alchemy
fr	French Alchimie taoïste
ja	Japanese 錬丹術
ko	Korean 연단술
pt	Portuguese Alquimia chinesa
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kineska alhemija
zh	Chinese 炼丹

Best Rank

English: #233789 10.2012

Global: #66898 07.2010

Best Rank

English: #30330 03.2024

Global: #60779 05.2008

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