Phytanic acid

Phytanic acid - chemical compound. Article “Phytanic acid” in English Wikipedia has 25.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Phytanic acid”, its content was written by 31 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 156 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 609 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #80477 in October 2010
• Global: #83394 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #315141 in March 2011
• Global: #459307 in March 2011

There are 18 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	German (de) Phytansäure		34.5922
2	Chinese (zh) 植烷酸		30.153
3	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		28.8497
4	Norwegian (no) Fytansyre		27.2586
5	English (en) Phytanic acid		25.6247
6	Romanian (ro) Acid fitanic		25.249
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Fitaninska kiselina		24.6419
8	Korean (ko) 피탄산		23.1557
9	Serbian (sr) Fitaninska kiselina		22.1299
10	Spanish (es) Ácido fitánico		21.2875

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Phytanic acid" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phytanic acid		193 148
2	German (de) Phytansäure		50 659
3	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		23 908
4	French (fr) Acide phytanique		23 266
5	Russian (ru) Фитановая кислота		16 447
6	Japanese (ja) フィタン酸		12 109
7	Chinese (zh) 植烷酸		11 702
8	Dutch (nl) Fytaanzuur		7 605
9	Persian (fa) فیتانیک اسید		4 890
10	Spanish (es) Ácido fitánico		4 096

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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 "Phytanic acid" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phytanic acid		498
2	German (de) Phytansäure		101
3	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		83
4	French (fr) Acide phytanique		77
5	Russian (ru) Фитановая кислота		49
6	Spanish (es) Ácido fitánico		46
7	Chinese (zh) 植烷酸		36
8	Arabic (ar) حمض الفيتانيك		29
9	Korean (ko) 피탄산		27
10	Japanese (ja) フィタン酸		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phytanic acid		31
2	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		27
3	German (de) Phytansäure		26
4	Dutch (nl) Fytaanzuur		20
5	Russian (ru) Фитановая кислота		13
6	French (fr) Acide phytanique		8
7	Chinese (zh) 植烷酸		6
8	Japanese (ja) フィタン酸		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Ácido fitânico		4
10	Arabic (ar) حمض الفيتانيك		3

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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 "Phytanic acid" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Acide phytanique		1
2	Arabic (ar) حمض الفيتانيك		0
3	German (de) Phytansäure		0
4	English (en) Phytanic acid		0
5	Spanish (es) Ácido fitánico		0
6	Persian (fa) فیتانیک اسید		0
7	Galician (gl) Ácido fitánico		0
8	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		0
9	Japanese (ja) フィタン酸		0
10	Korean (ko) 피탄산		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 "Phytanic acid" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Acido fitanico		379
2	French (fr) Acide phytanique		107
3	English (en) Phytanic acid		29
4	Persian (fa) فیتانیک اسید		18
5	Korean (ko) 피탄산		14
6	German (de) Phytansäure		10
7	Japanese (ja) フィタン酸		10
8	Arabic (ar) حمض الفيتانيك		6
9	Russian (ru) Фитановая кислота		6
10	Spanish (es) Ácido fitánico		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حمض الفيتانيك
de	German Phytansäure
en	English Phytanic acid
es	Spanish Ácido fitánico
fa	Persian فیتانیک اسید
fr	French Acide phytanique
gl	Galician Ácido fitánico
it	Italian Acido fitanico
ja	Japanese フィタン酸
ko	Korean 피탄산
nl	Dutch Fytaanzuur
no	Norwegian Fytansyre
pt	Portuguese Ácido fitânico
ro	Romanian Acid fitanic
ru	Russian Фитановая кислота
sh	Serbo-Croatian Fitaninska kiselina
sr	Serbian Fitaninska kiselina
zh	Chinese 植烷酸

Best Rank

English: #315141 03.2011

Global: #459307 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #80477 10.2010

Global: #83394 01.2012

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