Pasteurization

Quality:

Pasteurization - process in which certain foods are treated with mild heat in order to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life. Article “Pasteurization” in English Wikipedia has 91.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 95 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8602^nd most popular in all topics.

In June 2025 the article “Pasteurization” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pasteurization”, its content was written by 637 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2370 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 692 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5086 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #353 in August 2001
• Global: #392 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3001 in September 2014
• Global: #3766 in September 2014

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, 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	English (en) Pasteurization		91.2391
2	Malay (ms) Pempasteuran		86.899
3	Greek (el) Παστερίωση		79.7517
4	Latin (la) Pasteurizatio		55.8836
5	Korean (ko) 저온 살균법		51.3788
6	Spanish (es) Pasteurización		49.3165
7	Galician (gl) Pasteurización		44.9775
8	French (fr) Pasteurisation		38.7334
9	German (de) Pasteurisierung		38.3315
10	Serbian (sr) Пастеризација		36.8424

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pasteurization		9 495 459
2	Spanish (es) Pasteurización		5 790 435
3	German (de) Pasteurisierung		1 823 926
4	French (fr) Pasteurisation		1 579 824
5	Portuguese (pt) Pasteurização		1 362 044
6	Italian (it) Pastorizzazione		1 101 308
7	Russian (ru) Пастеризация		1 091 606
8	Polish (pl) Pasteryzacja		1 054 927
9	Chinese (zh) 巴斯德消毒法		614 181
10	Dutch (nl) Pasteuriseren		598 863

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) Pasteurization		24 185
2	Spanish (es) Pasteurización		4 822
3	Chinese (zh) 巴斯德消毒法		3 251
4	German (de) Pasteurisierung		2 912
5	French (fr) Pasteurisation		2 634
6	Russian (ru) Пастеризация		2 415
7	Italian (it) Pastorizzazione		1 652
8	Simple English (simple) Pasteurization		1 513
9	Japanese (ja) パスチャライゼーション		1 008
10	Korean (ko) 저온 살균법		902

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pasteurization		637
2	German (de) Pasteurisierung		162
3	Spanish (es) Pasteurización		156
4	French (fr) Pasteurisation		151
5	Italian (it) Pastorizzazione		107
6	Dutch (nl) Pasteuriseren		92
7	Portuguese (pt) Pasteurização		84
8	Russian (ru) Пастеризация		68
9	Polish (pl) Pasteryzacja		64
10	Hebrew (he) פסטור		58

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) Pasteurization		3
2	Hebrew (he) פסטור		1
3	Russian (ru) Пастеризация		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Пастеризація		1
5	Chinese (zh) 巴斯德消毒法		1
6	Arabic (ar) بسترة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Pasterizə		0
8	Belarusian (be) Пастэрызацыя		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Пастьоризация		0
10	Catalan (ca) Pasteurització		0

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

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