Common cold

Quality:

Common cold - common viral infection of upper respiratory tract. Article “Common cold” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 208 references and 24 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9077^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4357^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4274^th most popular in all topics.

The 3581^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7317^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Common cold” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7317^th place).

Since the creation of article “Common cold”, its content was written by 1199 registered users of English Wikipedia (4357^th place) and edited by 4200 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3581^st place).

The article is cited 1049 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8115 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #907 in September 2002
• Global: #576 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #539 in March 2020
• Global: #422 in March 2020

There are 53 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) Common cold		100
2	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		100
3	German (de) Erkältung		93.3333
4	Basque (eu) Hotzeri		89.1844
5	Estonian (et) Tavaline nohu		88.8889
6	Simple English (simple) Common cold		88.5714
7	Turkish (tr) Nezle		88.2064
8	Slovenian (sl) Prehlad		88.0039
9	Croatian (hr) Obična prehlada		85.8165
10	Indonesian (id) Pilek		84.8511

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common cold		15 375 869
2	German (de) Erkältung		4 578 484
3	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		4 169 594
4	Japanese (ja) 風邪		3 815 389
5	French (fr) Rhume		1 962 417
6	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		1 907 778
7	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		1 860 378
8	Russian (ru) Простуда		1 547 758
9	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		1 394 695
10	Arabic (ar) زكام		977 755

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) Common cold		13 503
2	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		3 169
3	Russian (ru) Простуда		2 752
4	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		1 942
5	German (de) Erkältung		1 644
6	Japanese (ja) 風邪		1 455
7	French (fr) Rhume		1 225
8	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		1 009
9	Polish (pl) Przeziębienie		452
10	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		449

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common cold		1 199
2	German (de) Erkältung		412
3	French (fr) Rhume		201
4	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		192
5	Japanese (ja) 風邪		180
6	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		156
7	Dutch (nl) Verkoudheid		138
8	Hebrew (he) הצטננות		119
9	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		104
10	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		103

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) Common cold		5
2	Hungarian (hu) Megfázás		3
3	Arabic (ar) زكام		2
4	Indonesian (id) Pilek		2
5	Catalan (ca) Refredat		1
6	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		1
7	Estonian (et) Tavaline nohu		1
8	Basque (eu) Hotzeri		1
9	Croatian (hr) Obična prehlada		1
10	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		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