Fatty acid

Quality:

Fatty acid - carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic chain, either saturated or unsaturated. Article “Fatty acid” in English Wikipedia has 74.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 76 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5306^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Fatty acid”, its content was written by 531 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2340 times in English Wikipedia and cited 18885 times in all languages (9159^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #856 in August 2003
• Global: #1173 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5402 in October 2014
• Global: #2546 in December 2014

There are 49 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	German (de) Fettsäuren		94.2897
2	English (en) Fatty acid		74.8158
3	Russian (ru) Жирные кислоты		66.8622
4	Estonian (et) Rasvhapped		60.9
5	Indonesian (id) Asam lemak		60.2265
6	Finnish (fi) Rasvahapot		57.7455
7	French (fr) Acide gras		56.8893
8	Korean (ko) 지방산		55.4851
9	Turkish (tr) Yağ asidi		47.6022
10	Galician (gl) Ácido graxo		45.3323

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fatty acid		11 735 052
2	Spanish (es) Ácido graso		5 541 592
3	German (de) Fettsäuren		4 416 004
4	Japanese (ja) 脂肪酸		2 378 857
5	French (fr) Acide gras		1 872 618
6	Italian (it) Acidi grassi		1 766 765
7	Russian (ru) Жирные кислоты		1 597 516
8	Portuguese (pt) Ácido graxo		1 573 385
9	Polish (pl) Kwasy tłuszczowe		1 533 764
10	Indonesian (id) Asam lemak		1 135 300

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) Fatty acid		10 194
2	German (de) Fettsäuren		3 782
3	Japanese (ja) 脂肪酸		2 055
4	Russian (ru) Жирные кислоты		1 663
5	French (fr) Acide gras		1 348
6	Spanish (es) Ácido graso		1 272
7	Chinese (zh) 脂肪酸		1 008
8	Italian (it) Acidi grassi		945
9	Polish (pl) Kwasy tłuszczowe		882
10	Persian (fa) اسید چرب		593

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fatty acid		531
2	German (de) Fettsäuren		312
3	French (fr) Acide gras		168
4	Italian (it) Acidi grassi		134
5	Spanish (es) Ácido graso		109
6	Russian (ru) Жирные кислоты		107
7	Hebrew (he) חומצת שומן		101
8	Dutch (nl) Vetzuur		88
9	Danish (da) Fedtsyre		71
10	Hungarian (hu) Zsírsavak		65

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	Arabic (ar) حمض دهني		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Grasacido		1
3	Belarusian (be) Тлустыя кіслоты		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Мастна киселина		0
5	Catalan (ca) Àcid gras		0
6	Czech (cs) Mastná kyselina		0
7	Danish (da) Fedtsyre		0
8	German (de) Fettsäuren		0
9	Greek (el) Λιπαρό οξύ		0
10	English (en) Fatty acid		0

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

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