Decompression sickness

Quality:

Decompression sickness - disorder caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution. Article "Decompression sickness" in English Wikipedia has 92.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 269 references and 42 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Decompression sickness" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Decompression sickness", its content was written by 389 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1496 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1711 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3854 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2530 in February 2003
• Global: #6125 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3213 in October 2013
• Global: #7572 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, 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) Decompression sickness		92.1658
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Dekompresiona bolest		90.6947
3	Serbian (sr) Dekompresiona bolest		69.6677
4	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		46.5157
5	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		45.768
6	Finnish (fi) Sukeltajantauti		42.2892
7	French (fr) Accident de décompression		36.9238
8	Turkish (tr) Vurgun		36.0948
9	Swedish (sv) Tryckfallssjuka		27.4762
10	Estonian (et) Kessoontõbi		25.2356

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Decompression sickness		8 335 283
2	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		2 494 999
3	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		1 377 921
4	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		983 503
5	French (fr) Accident de décompression		715 575
6	Spanish (es) Síndrome de descompresión		680 836
7	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		651 866
8	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		541 665
9	Polish (pl) Choroba dekompresyjna		537 964
10	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		350 473

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		36 853
2	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		8 749
3	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		4 643
4	Chinese (zh) 減壓症		4 343
5	French (fr) Accident de décompression		1 993
6	Turkish (tr) Vurgun		1 787
7	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		1 612
8	Spanish (es) Síndrome de descompresión		1 350
9	Polish (pl) Choroba dekompresyjna		1 278
10	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		1 271

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		389
2	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		176
3	French (fr) Accident de décompression		130
4	Russian (ru) Декомпрессионная болезнь		83
5	Dutch (nl) Caissonziekte		80
6	Italian (it) Malattia da decompressione		54
7	Japanese (ja) 減圧症		54
8	Danish (da) Trykfaldssyge		45
9	Finnish (fi) Sukeltajantauti		43
10	Norwegian (no) Trykkfallsyke		42

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		2
2	Serbian (sr) Dekompresiona bolest		2
3	Czech (cs) Dekompresní nemoc		1
4	Swedish (sv) Tryckfallssjuka		1
5	Arabic (ar) مرض تخفيف الضغط		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dekompression xəstəlik		0
7	Catalan (ca) Síndrome de descompressió		0
8	Danish (da) Trykfaldssyge		0
9	German (de) Dekompressionskrankheit		0
10	Greek (el) Νόσος των δυτών		0

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

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