Polylactic acid

Polylactic acid - polymer. Article “Polylactic acid” in English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 79 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.

In June 2025 the article “Polylactic acid” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Polylactic acid”, its content was written by 305 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 874 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 272 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1207 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8194 in December 2013
• Global: #11491 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11509 in November 2019
• Global: #8077 in November 2019

There are 30 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) Polylactic acid		85.5701
2	German (de) Polylactide		75.3986
3	Turkish (tr) Polilaktik asit		70.8425
4	Czech (cs) Kyselina polymléčná		60.0807
5	Chinese (zh) 聚乳酸		54.6424
6	Arabic (ar) عديد حمض اللبنيك		53.2256
7	Vietnamese (vi) Acid polylactic		49.5938
8	Greek (el) Πολυγαλακτικό οξύ		45.3589
9	Portuguese (pt) Poliácido láctico		41.4428
10	Hungarian (hu) Politejsav		36.3812

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polylactic acid		5 700 147
2	German (de) Polylactide		1 612 861
3	Japanese (ja) ポリ乳酸		756 199
4	Spanish (es) Ácido poliláctico		675 664
5	Chinese (zh) 聚乳酸		663 586
6	French (fr) Acide polylactique		605 409
7	Russian (ru) Полилактид		406 838
8	Italian (it) Acido polilattico		386 805
9	Polish (pl) Polilaktyd		302 036
10	Dutch (nl) Polymelkzuur		261 627

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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 "Polylactic acid" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polylactic acid		17 868
2	German (de) Polylactide		4 010
3	French (fr) Acide polylactique		2 508
4	Spanish (es) Ácido poliláctico		2 371
5	Russian (ru) Полилактид		1 940
6	Chinese (zh) 聚乳酸		1 843
7	Japanese (ja) ポリ乳酸		1 586
8	Italian (it) Acido polilattico		1 243
9	Polish (pl) Polilaktyd		1 007
10	Portuguese (pt) Poliácido láctico		731

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

Language versions of the article "Polylactic 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) Polylactic acid		305
2	German (de) Polylactide		140
3	French (fr) Acide polylactique		53
4	Italian (it) Acido polilattico		50
5	Chinese (zh) 聚乳酸		42
6	Russian (ru) Полилактид		33
7	Japanese (ja) ポリ乳酸		28
8	Polish (pl) Polilaktyd		28
9	Dutch (nl) Polymelkzuur		26
10	Spanish (es) Ácido poliláctico		25

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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 "Polylactic acid" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polylactic acid		3
2	German (de) Polylactide		2
3	Dutch (nl) Polymelkzuur		1
4	Polish (pl) Polilaktyd		1
5	Simple English (simple) Polylactic acid		1
6	Arabic (ar) عديد حمض اللبنيك		0
7	Catalan (ca) Àcid polilàctic		0
8	Czech (cs) Kyselina polymléčná		0
9	Danish (da) Polymælkesyre		0
10	Greek (el) Πολυγαλακτικό οξύ		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 "Polylactic acid" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Polylactic acid		272
2	German (de) Polylactide		119
3	Italian (it) Acido polilattico		114
4	Arabic (ar) عديد حمض اللبنيك		103
5	Chinese (zh) 聚乳酸		67
6	Persian (fa) پلی‌لاکتیک اسید		60
7	Japanese (ja) ポリ乳酸		55
8	Russian (ru) Полилактид		52
9	Spanish (es) Ácido poliláctico		49
10	French (fr) Acide polylactique		49

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عديد حمض اللبنيك
ca	Catalan Àcid polilàctic
cs	Czech Kyselina polymléčná
da	Danish Polymælkesyre
de	German Polylactide
el	Greek Πολυγαλακτικό οξύ
en	English Polylactic acid
eo	Esperanto Polilaktoacido
es	Spanish Ácido poliláctico
eu	Basque Poli(azido laktiko)
fa	Persian پلی‌لاکتیک اسید
fi	Finnish Polylaktidi
fr	French Acide polylactique
he	Hebrew PLA (פלסטיק)
hu	Hungarian Politejsav
it	Italian Acido polilattico
ja	Japanese ポリ乳酸
ko	Korean 폴리젖산
nl	Dutch Polymelkzuur
no	Norwegian Polymelkesyre
pl	Polish Polilaktyd
pt	Portuguese Poliácido láctico
ro	Romanian Acid polilactic
ru	Russian Полилактид
simple	Simple English Polylactic acid
sv	Swedish Polylaktid
tr	Turkish Polilaktik asit
uk	Ukrainian Полілактид
vi	Vietnamese Acid polylactic
zh	Chinese 聚乳酸

Best Rank

English: #11509 11.2019

Global: #8077 11.2019

Best Rank

English: #8194 12.2013

Global: #11491 06.2019

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