Digital signature

Quality:

Digital signature - mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital documents. Article “Digital signature” in English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.53 points.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Digital signature” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Digital signature”, its content was written by 543 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2224 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1118 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4476 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1176 in June 2002
• Global: #1496 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11416 in April 2015
• Global: #7146 in March 2015

There are 40 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	Tamil (ta) எண்முறைக் கையொப்பம்		62.3263
2	Russian (ru) Электронная подпись		55.9616
3	Hindi (hi) डिजिटल हस्ताक्षर		50.3304
4	Estonian (et) Digitaalallkiri		48.6846
5	English (en) Digital signature		48.3288
6	Romanian (ro) Semnătură digitală		38.3215
7	Japanese (ja) デジタル署名		35.482
8	Chinese (zh) 數位簽章		34.7545
9	Hebrew (he) חתימה דיגיטלית		33.1368
10	Italian (it) Firma digitale		33.1058

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Digital signature		8 227 779
2	Russian (ru) Электронная подпись		3 760 610
3	Spanish (es) Firma digital		1 579 836
4	Italian (it) Firma digitale		1 550 671
5	French (fr) Signature numérique		1 221 512
6	German (de) Digitale Signatur		1 162 681
7	Portuguese (pt) Assinatura digital		624 043
8	Chinese (zh) 數位簽章		497 043
9	Ukrainian (uk) Електронний цифровий підпис		458 053
10	Polish (pl) Podpis cyfrowy		420 181

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) Digital signature		10 669
2	Russian (ru) Электронная подпись		3 796
3	French (fr) Signature numérique		1 723
4	Italian (it) Firma digitale		905
5	German (de) Digitale Signatur		808
6	Chinese (zh) 數位簽章		682
7	Spanish (es) Firma digital		594
8	Ukrainian (uk) Електронний цифровий підпис		371
9	Japanese (ja) デジタル署名		269
10	Persian (fa) امضای دیجیتال		249

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Digital signature		543
2	Russian (ru) Электронная подпись		200
3	Italian (it) Firma digitale		183
4	French (fr) Signature numérique		147
5	Spanish (es) Firma digital		126
6	German (de) Digitale Signatur		124
7	Hebrew (he) חתימה דיגיטלית		86
8	Portuguese (pt) Assinatura digital		76
9	Dutch (nl) Digitale handtekening		69
10	Chinese (zh) 數位簽章		69

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	Italian (it) Firma digitale		4
2	English (en) Digital signature		2
3	Hebrew (he) חתימה דיגיטלית		1
4	Romanian (ro) Semnătură digitală		1
5	Simple English (simple) Digital signature		1
6	Tamil (ta) எண்முறைக் கையொப்பம்		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Електронний цифровий підпис		1
8	Arabic (ar) توقيع رقمي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Rəqəmsal imza		0
10	Catalan (ca) Signatura digital		0

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

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