Decompression sickness

Quality:

Decompression sickness - disorder caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution. Article “Decompression sickness” in English Wikipedia has 97.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 318 references and 44 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 “Decompression sickness” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Decompression sickness”, its content was written by 395 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1504 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1712 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3878 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2526 in February 2003
• Global: #6118 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3560 in October 2013
• Global: #8023 in October 2013

There are 38 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) Decompression sickness		97.7417
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Dekompresiona bolest		91.9257
3	Serbian (sr) Dekompresiona bolest		69.4468
4	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		46.3988
5	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		45.5979
6	Finnish (fi) Sukeltajantauti		42.2592
7	French (fr) Accident de décompression		36.9106
8	Turkish (tr) Vurgun		36.1276
9	Swedish (sv) Tryckfallssjuka		26.7506
10	Estonian (et) Kessoontõbi		25.1088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Decompression sickness		8 658 662
2	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		2 732 075
3	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		1 420 580
4	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		998 840
5	French (fr) Accident de décompression		737 710
6	Spanish (es) Síndrome de descompresión		693 178
7	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		679 714
8	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		554 772
9	Polish (pl) Choroba dekompresyjna		550 512
10	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		362 065

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) Decompression sickness		23 374
2	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		4 791
3	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		2 684
4	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		2 377
5	French (fr) Accident de décompression		2 155
6	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		1 043
7	Spanish (es) Síndrome de descompresión		791
8	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		730
9	Polish (pl) Choroba dekompresyjna		701
10	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		657

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Decompression sickness		395
2	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		181
3	French (fr) Accident de décompression		133
4	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		83
5	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		80
6	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		55
7	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		55
8	Danish (da) Trykfaldssyge		46
9	Finnish (fi) Sukeltajantauti		44
10	Spanish (es) Síndrome de descompresión		41

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) Decompression sickness		3
2	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		2
3	Arabic (ar) مرض تخفيف الضغط		1
4	Catalan (ca) Síndrome de descompressió		1
5	Czech (cs) Dekompresní nemoc		1
6	Persian (fa) بیماری ناشی از کاهش ناگهانی فشار		1
7	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		1
8	Serbian (sr) Dekompresiona bolest		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dekompression xəstəlik		0
10	Danish (da) Trykfaldssyge		0

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

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