Passive transport

Passive transport - membrane transport that occurs down an electrochemical gradient and does not require energy. Article “Passive transport” in English Wikipedia has 51.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.7 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.

Since the creation of article “Passive transport”, its content was written by 213 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 456 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 121 times in English Wikipedia and cited 612 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5922 in November 2008
• Global: #16203 in November 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23957 in October 2012
• Global: #24941 in October 2020

There are 24 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) Passive transport		51.3532
2	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		40.3236
3	Galician (gl) Transporte pasivo		38.8073
4	Chinese (zh) 被动运输		28.3892
5	Indonesian (id) Transpor pasif		19.942
6	Armenian (hy) Պասիվ տրանսպորտ		15.0235
7	Romanian (ro) Transport pasiv		14.0703
8	Hungarian (hu) Passzív transzport		11.6237
9	Japanese (ja) 受動輸送		9.9934
10	Slovenian (sl) Pasivni transport		9.2172

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Passive transport" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Passive transport		3 103 776
2	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		1 589 126
3	Indonesian (id) Transpor pasif		507 993
4	Russian (ru) Пассивный транспорт		433 230
5	Italian (it) Trasporto passivo		364 017
6	Portuguese (pt) Transporte passivo		274 342
7	Japanese (ja) 受動輸送		240 525
8	Chinese (zh) 被动运输		154 307
9	Arabic (ar) نقل سلبي		153 130
10	French (fr) Transport passif		145 063

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Passive transport" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Passive transport		1 087
2	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		508
3	Chinese (zh) 被动运输		188
4	Russian (ru) Пассивный транспорт		173
5	Italian (it) Trasporto passivo		89
6	Turkish (tr) Pasif taşıma		59
7	Japanese (ja) 受動輸送		56
8	Norwegian (no) Passiv transport		33
9	Vietnamese (vi) Vận chuyển thụ động		31
10	French (fr) Transport passif		30

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

Language versions of the article "Passive transport" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Passive transport		213
2	Italian (it) Trasporto passivo		35
3	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		34
4	Arabic (ar) نقل سلبي		18
5	Russian (ru) Пассивный транспорт		18
6	Portuguese (pt) Transporte passivo		16
7	French (fr) Transport passif		14
8	Indonesian (id) Transpor pasif		14
9	Chinese (zh) 被动运输		13
10	Turkish (tr) Pasif taşıma		11

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

Language versions of the article "Passive transport" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hungarian (hu) Passzív transzport		1
2	Arabic (ar) نقل سلبي		0
3	Catalan (ca) Transport passiu		0
4	English (en) Passive transport		0
5	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		0
6	French (fr) Transport passif		0
7	Galician (gl) Transporte pasivo		0
8	Armenian (hy) Պասիվ տրանսպորտ		0
9	Indonesian (id) Transpor pasif		0
10	Italian (it) Trasporto passivo		0

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

Language versions of the article "Passive transport" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Passive transport		121
2	Italian (it) Trasporto passivo		80
3	Catalan (ca) Transport passiu		47
4	Galician (gl) Transporte pasivo		41
5	French (fr) Transport passif		39
6	Chinese (zh) 被动运输		39
7	Korean (ko) 수동수송		31
8	Spanish (es) Transporte pasivo		30
9	Slovenian (sl) Pasivni transport		29
10	Japanese (ja) 受動輸送		25

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقل سلبي
ca	Catalan Transport passiu
en	English Passive transport
es	Spanish Transporte pasivo
fr	French Transport passif
gl	Galician Transporte pasivo
hu	Hungarian Passzív transzport
hy	Armenian Պասիվ տրանսպորտ
id	Indonesian Transpor pasif
it	Italian Trasporto passivo
ja	Japanese 受動輸送
ko	Korean 수동수송
nl	Dutch Passief transport
no	Norwegian Passiv transport
pt	Portuguese Transporte passivo
ro	Romanian Transport pasiv
ru	Russian Пассивный транспорт
sh	Serbo-Croatian Pasivan transport
sl	Slovenian Pasivni transport
sr	Serbian Пасиван транспорт
tr	Turkish Pasif taşıma
uk	Ukrainian Пасивний транспорт
vi	Vietnamese Vận chuyển thụ động
zh	Chinese 被动运输

Best Rank

English: #23957 10.2012

Global: #24941 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #5922 11.2008

Global: #16203 11.2008

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