Essential oil

Quality:

Essential oil - hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Article “Essential oil” in English Wikipedia has 52.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 88 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 22.57 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Essential oil”, its content was written by 576 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1040 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11160 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6401 in December 2014
• Global: #2977 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5073 in October 2011
• Global: #6489 in October 2011

There are 51 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	Japanese (ja) 精油		60.408
2	Russian (ru) Эфирные масла		58.8053
3	French (fr) Huile essentielle		52.883
4	English (en) Essential oil		52.6586
5	German (de) Ätherische Öle		52.534
6	Polish (pl) Olejek eteryczny		48.2874
7	Chinese (zh) 精油		45.4318
8	Catalan (ca) Oli essencial		43.584
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh dầu		37.4406
10	Greek (el) Αιθέριο έλαιο		34.2212

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Essential oil		7 418 314
2	Russian (ru) Эфирные масла		1 855 349
3	French (fr) Huile essentielle		1 739 250
4	Spanish (es) Aceite esencial		1 729 632
5	German (de) Ätherische Öle		1 487 409
6	Japanese (ja) 精油		1 005 749
7	Polish (pl) Olejek eteryczny		662 050
8	Indonesian (id) Minyak asiri		604 026
9	Italian (it) Olio essenziale		571 640
10	Portuguese (pt) Óleo essencial		513 015

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) Essential oil		8 449
2	Russian (ru) Эфирные масла		2 511
3	German (de) Ätherische Öle		2 134
4	French (fr) Huile essentielle		1 317
5	Japanese (ja) 精油		1 102
6	Spanish (es) Aceite esencial		920
7	Italian (it) Olio essenziale		686
8	Chinese (zh) 精油		640
9	Dutch (nl) Etherische olie		606
10	Polish (pl) Olejek eteryczny		569

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Essential oil		576
2	German (de) Ätherische Öle		251
3	French (fr) Huile essentielle		235
4	Russian (ru) Эфирные масла		110
5	Italian (it) Olio essenziale		100
6	Spanish (es) Aceite esencial		95
7	Dutch (nl) Etherische olie		90
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh dầu		85
9	Japanese (ja) 精油		74
10	Hungarian (hu) Illóolajok		68

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	French (fr) Huile essentielle		4
2	Russian (ru) Эфирные масла		2
3	Basque (eu) Esentzia olio		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Illóolajok		1
5	Indonesian (id) Minyak asiri		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh dầu		1
7	Arabic (ar) زيت عطري		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Efir yağı		0
9	Belarusian (be) Эфірныя алеі		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Етерично масло		0

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

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