Persistent organic pollutant

Persistent organic pollutant - organic compound that resists environmental degradation. Article “Persistent organic pollutant” in English Wikipedia has 69.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.72 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Persistent organic pollutant” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Persistent organic pollutant”, its content was written by 186 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 588 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 720 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2279 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15078 in June 2024
• Global: #23264 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #90223 in November 2014
• Global: #77683 in November 2014

There are 31 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	Catalan (ca) Contaminant orgànic persistent		100
2	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		69.4784
3	Ukrainian (uk) Стійкі органічні забруднювачі		62.4264
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chất ô nhiễm hữu cơ khó phân hủy		54.8614
5	Swedish (sv) Långlivad organisk förorening		36.2055
6	French (fr) Polluant organique persistant		31.0192
7	Arabic (ar) ملوث عضوي ثابت		29.6591
8	Japanese (ja) 残留性有機汚染物質		27.9613
9	Simple English (simple) Persistent organic pollutant		27.4603
10	Indonesian (id) Polutan organik persisten		26.0641

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Persistent organic pollutant" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		1 477 828
2	Spanish (es) Contaminante orgánico persistente		409 026
3	French (fr) Polluant organique persistant		189 627
4	German (de) Persistente organische Schadstoffe		189 603
5	Portuguese (pt) Poluentes orgânicos persistentes		164 213
6	Japanese (ja) 残留性有機汚染物質		139 249
7	Italian (it) Inquinante organico persistente		94 412
8	Russian (ru) Стойкие органические загрязнители		71 480
9	Chinese (zh) 持久性有機污染物		65 921
10	Czech (cs) Perzistentní organická látka		51 481

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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 "Persistent organic pollutant" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		4 239
2	German (de) Persistente organische Schadstoffe		526
3	French (fr) Polluant organique persistant		437
4	Russian (ru) Стойкие органические загрязнители		381
5	Spanish (es) Contaminante orgánico persistente		233
6	Polish (pl) Trwałe zanieczyszczenia organiczne		232
7	Japanese (ja) 残留性有機汚染物質		221
8	Italian (it) Inquinante organico persistente		202
9	Chinese (zh) 持久性有機污染物		163
10	Simple English (simple) Persistent organic pollutant		153

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		186
2	French (fr) Polluant organique persistant		64
3	German (de) Persistente organische Schadstoffe		56
4	Italian (it) Inquinante organico persistente		36
5	Spanish (es) Contaminante orgánico persistente		27
6	Catalan (ca) Contaminant orgànic persistent		26
7	Finnish (fi) POP-yhdiste		23
8	Norwegian (no) Persistente organiske forurensninger		17
9	Japanese (ja) 残留性有機汚染物質		16
10	Danish (da) Persistente organiske miljøgifte		15

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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 "Persistent organic pollutant" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) מזהם אורגני עמיד		3
2	Catalan (ca) Contaminant orgànic persistent		2
3	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		1
4	Russian (ru) Стойкие органические загрязнители		1
5	Arabic (ar) ملوث عضوي ثابت		0
6	Czech (cs) Perzistentní organická látka		0
7	Danish (da) Persistente organiske miljøgifte		0
8	German (de) Persistente organische Schadstoffe		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Persistaj organaj poluaĵoj		0
10	Spanish (es) Contaminante orgánico persistente		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 "Persistent organic pollutant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Persistent organic pollutant		720
2	French (fr) Polluant organique persistant		270
3	Chinese (zh) 持久性有機污染物		199
4	Arabic (ar) ملوث عضوي ثابت		183
5	Russian (ru) Стойкие органические загрязнители		95
6	Persian (fa) آلاینده‌های آلی دیرپا		89
7	Japanese (ja) 残留性有機汚染物質		80
8	German (de) Persistente organische Schadstoffe		73
9	Czech (cs) Perzistentní organická látka		72
10	Catalan (ca) Contaminant orgànic persistent		57

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ملوث عضوي ثابت
ca	Catalan Contaminant orgànic persistent
cs	Czech Perzistentní organická látka
da	Danish Persistente organiske miljøgifte
de	German Persistente organische Schadstoffe
en	English Persistent organic pollutant
eo	Esperanto Persistaj organaj poluaĵoj
es	Spanish Contaminante orgánico persistente
et	Estonian Püsivad orgaanilised saasteained
eu	Basque Poluitzaile organiko iraunkor
fa	Persian آلاینده‌های آلی دیرپا
fi	Finnish POP-yhdiste
fr	French Polluant organique persistant
he	Hebrew מזהם אורגני עמיד
id	Indonesian Polutan organik persisten
it	Italian Inquinante organico persistente
ja	Japanese 残留性有機汚染物質
ko	Korean 잔류성 유기 오염 물질
ms	Malay Pencemar organik berterusan
no	Norwegian Persistente organiske forurensninger
pl	Polish Trwałe zanieczyszczenia organiczne
pt	Portuguese Poluentes orgânicos persistentes
ro	Romanian Poluant organic persistent
ru	Russian Стойкие органические загрязнители
simple	Simple English Persistent organic pollutant
sl	Slovenian Obstojno organsko onesnaževalo
sr	Serbian Stalni organski zagađivač
sv	Swedish Långlivad organisk förorening
uk	Ukrainian Стійкі органічні забруднювачі
vi	Vietnamese Chất ô nhiễm hữu cơ khó phân hủy
zh	Chinese 持久性有機污染物

Best Rank

English: #90223 11.2014

Global: #77683 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #15078 06.2024

Global: #23264 09.2004

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