Embalming

Quality:

Embalming - method of preserving human remains by treating them to forestall decomposition. Article “Embalming” in English Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 94 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 17.32 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.

In June 2026 the article “Embalming” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Embalming”, its content was written by 536 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1563 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 601 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3454 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3327 in October 2005
• Global: #5385 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2270 in December 2016
• Global: #1073 in March 2013

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	English (en) Embalming		69.2822
2	Simple English (simple) Embalming		48.8691
3	Norwegian (no) Balsamering		41.4923
4	Polish (pl) Mumifikacja		41.1085
5	Esperanto (eo) Enbalzamigo		37.6219
6	Malay (ms) Tahmitan		35.1694
7	Finnish (fi) Palsamointi		33.3797
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Balsamering		33.1961
9	Spanish (es) Embalsamamiento		33.1061
10	Italian (it) Imbalsamazione		30.7761

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Embalming		7 661 323
2	Japanese (ja) エンバーミング		2 747 990
3	Spanish (es) Embalsamamiento		2 010 187
4	Russian (ru) Бальзамирование		873 206
5	Polish (pl) Mumifikacja		782 380
6	Italian (it) Imbalsamazione		644 391
7	French (fr) Embaumement		610 193
8	Arabic (ar) تحنيط		461 105
9	German (de) Einbalsamierung		436 596
10	Portuguese (pt) Embalsamamento		324 839

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) Embalming		12 372
2	Japanese (ja) エンバーミング		7 932
3	Russian (ru) Бальзамирование		1 786
4	German (de) Einbalsamierung		721
5	Polish (pl) Mumifikacja		661
6	French (fr) Embaumement		600
7	Italian (it) Imbalsamazione		578
8	Spanish (es) Embalsamamiento		555
9	Finnish (fi) Palsamointi		383
10	Chinese (zh) 遺體保存技術		374

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Embalming		536
2	Polish (pl) Mumifikacja		107
3	Japanese (ja) エンバーミング		99
4	Italian (it) Imbalsamazione		90
5	French (fr) Embaumement		88
6	German (de) Einbalsamierung		76
7	Spanish (es) Embalsamamiento		75
8	Hebrew (he) חניטה		65
9	Russian (ru) Бальзамирование		47
10	Finnish (fi) Palsamointi		44

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) Embalming		2
2	Greek (el) Ταρίχευση		1
3	Indonesian (id) Pembalsaman		1
4	Arabic (ar) تحنيط		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Балсамиране		0
6	Catalan (ca) Momificació		0
7	Czech (cs) Balzamování		0
8	Danish (da) Balsamering		0
9	German (de) Einbalsamierung		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Enbalzamigo		0

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

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