Pathogen

Quality:

Pathogen - biological entity that causes disease in its host, which is typically an infectious microorganism or agent, such as a virus, bacterium, protozoan, prion, viroid, or fungus. Article “Pathogen” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 71 references and 24 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Pathogen” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pathogen”, its content was written by 365 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3129 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15473 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3086 in March 2013
• Global: #1107 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1939 in March 2020
• Global: #2141 in March 2020

There are 48 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	Catalan (ca) Patogen		80
2	English (en) Pathogen		76.377
3	Chinese (zh) 病原体		62.6804
4	Serbian (sr) Patogen		56.6936
5	Indonesian (id) Patogen		51.2396
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Patogen		47.1778
7	Greek (el) Παθογόνος μικροοργανισμός		45.0442
8	Estonian (et) Patogeen		41.4403
9	Portuguese (pt) Agente patogénico		39.1015
10	Spanish (es) Agente biológico patógeno		37.8983

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pathogen		9 941 155
2	Spanish (es) Agente biológico patógeno		2 987 596
3	German (de) Krankheitserreger		990 360
4	Portuguese (pt) Agente patogénico		775 009
5	Indonesian (id) Patogen		763 406
6	French (fr) Agent infectieux		677 278
7	Russian (ru) Патоген		646 224
8	Italian (it) Microrganismo patogeno		640 694
9	Polish (pl) Patogen		576 949
10	Japanese (ja) 病原体		480 760

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) Pathogen		11 762
2	Russian (ru) Патоген		1 337
3	German (de) Krankheitserreger		1 169
4	Chinese (zh) 病原体		913
5	Spanish (es) Agente biológico patógeno		880
6	Japanese (ja) 病原体		713
7	French (fr) Agent infectieux		551
8	Polish (pl) Patogen		459
9	Portuguese (pt) Agente patogénico		431
10	Dutch (nl) Pathogeen		364

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pathogen		365
2	German (de) Krankheitserreger		152
3	Spanish (es) Agente biológico patógeno		118
4	French (fr) Agent infectieux		108
5	Dutch (nl) Pathogeen		70
6	Italian (it) Microrganismo patogeno		57
7	Chinese (zh) 病原体		46
8	Russian (ru) Патоген		42
9	Portuguese (pt) Agente patogénico		39
10	Polish (pl) Patogen		36

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) ممراض		2
2	Catalan (ca) Patogen		1
3	English (en) Pathogen		1
4	Romanian (ro) Agent patogen		1
5	Serbian (sr) Patogen		1
6	Chinese (zh) 病原体		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Patogen		0
8	Belarusian (be) Патаген		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Патоген		0
10	Czech (cs) Patogen		0

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

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