Introduction to viruses

Quality:

Introduction to viruses - non-technical introduction to viruses. Article "Introduction to viruses" in English Wikipedia has 95.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 117 references and 20 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Introduction to viruses" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Introduction to viruses", its content was written by 265 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 454 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 85 times in English Wikipedia and cited 279 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #194 in March 2020
• Global: #601 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #516 in March 2020
• Global: #1382 in March 2020

There are 14 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	Indonesian (id) Pengantar tentang virus		97.2405
2	English (en) Introduction to viruses		95.7127
3	Chinese (zh) 病毒概論		93.5465
4	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu về virus		85.1106
5	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στους ιούς		83.4375
6	Catalan (ca) Introducció als virus		80.3635
7	Persian (fa) مقدمه‌ای بر ویروس		80.252
8	Tamil (ta) வைரசுகளைப் பற்றிய அறிமுகம்		73.6812
9	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの紹介		59.275
10	Portuguese (pt) Introdução aos vírus		50.9788

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Introduction to viruses		2 087 968
2	Portuguese (pt) Introdução aos vírus		457 948
3	Indonesian (id) Pengantar tentang virus		203 191
4	Chinese (zh) 病毒概論		186 121
5	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στους ιούς		117 719
6	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى الفيروسات		89 375
7	Persian (fa) مقدمه‌ای بر ویروس		84 699
8	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu về virus		76 765
9	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの紹介		56 495
10	Catalan (ca) Introducció als virus		42 349

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) Introduction to viruses		2 368
2	Chinese (zh) 病毒概論		487
3	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu về virus		403
4	Tamil (ta) வைரசுகளைப் பற்றிய அறிமுகம்		255
5	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στους ιούς		188
6	Portuguese (pt) Introdução aos vírus		121
7	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى الفيروسات		119
8	Persian (fa) مقدمه‌ای بر ویروس		93
9	Malay (ms) Pengenalan kepada virus		93
10	Catalan (ca) Introducció als virus		92

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Introduction to viruses		265
2	Portuguese (pt) Introdução aos vírus		34
3	Chinese (zh) 病毒概論		23
4	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى الفيروسات		19
5	Persian (fa) مقدمه‌ای بر ویروس		19
6	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στους ιούς		18
7	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu về virus		18
8	Catalan (ca) Introducció als virus		16
9	Indonesian (id) Pengantar tentang virus		16
10	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの紹介		12

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) Introduction to viruses		2
2	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى الفيروسات		0
3	Catalan (ca) Introducció als virus		0
4	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στους ιούς		0
5	Persian (fa) مقدمه‌ای بر ویروس		0
6	Indonesian (id) Pengantar tentang virus		0
7	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの紹介		0
8	Korean (ko) 바이러스의 개요		0
9	Malay (ms) Pengenalan kepada virus		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Introdução aos vírus		0

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

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