Restriction enzyme

Quality:

Restriction enzyme - class of enzymes that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within the molecule known as restriction sites. Article “Restriction enzyme” in English Wikipedia has 80.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 104 references and 16 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 2026 the article “Restriction enzyme” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Restriction enzyme”, its content was written by 321 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 865 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3259 in June 2003
• Global: #3966 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8804 in April 2016
• Global: #13340 in April 2016

There are 43 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	English (en) Restriction enzyme		80.8236
2	Estonian (et) Restriktaasid		78.8738
3	Turkish (tr) Restriksiyon enzimi		71.6433
4	Indonesian (id) Enzim restriksi		69.092
5	Galician (gl) Encima de restrición		57.268
6	Hebrew (he) אנזים הגבלה		54.1791
7	Slovak (sk) Restrikčná endonukleáza		41.0742
8	Arabic (ar) إنزيمات الاقتطاع		38.8594
9	Hungarian (hu) Restrikciós endonukleáz		38.2219
10	Russian (ru) Эндонуклеазы рестрикции		35.8356

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Restriction enzyme		6 489 778
2	Spanish (es) Enzima de restricción		1 325 527
3	German (de) Restriktionsenzym		919 229
4	Japanese (ja) 制限酵素		598 424
5	French (fr) Enzyme de restriction		564 997
6	Polish (pl) Enzymy restrykcyjne		441 690
7	Portuguese (pt) Enzima de restrição		411 887
8	Chinese (zh) 限制酶		360 176
9	Russian (ru) Эндонуклеазы рестрикции		246 777
10	Italian (it) Deossiribonucleasi II (sito-specifica)		237 690

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) Restriction enzyme		2 723
2	Chinese (zh) 限制酶		453
3	Korean (ko) 제한 효소		449
4	German (de) Restriktionsenzym		393
5	Japanese (ja) 制限酵素		307
6	Russian (ru) Эндонуклеазы рестрикции		206
7	Portuguese (pt) Enzima de restrição		190
8	French (fr) Enzyme de restriction		189
9	Polish (pl) Enzymy restrykcyjne		171
10	Turkish (tr) Restriksiyon enzimi		115

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Restriction enzyme		321
2	German (de) Restriktionsenzym		102
3	French (fr) Enzyme de restriction		73
4	Italian (it) Deossiribonucleasi II (sito-specifica)		61
5	Russian (ru) Эндонуклеазы рестрикции		46
6	Spanish (es) Enzima de restricción		40
7	Dutch (nl) Restrictie-enzym		39
8	Turkish (tr) Restriksiyon enzimi		36
9	Danish (da) Restriktionsenzym		35
10	Polish (pl) Enzymy restrykcyjne		35

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) Restriction enzyme		2
2	Arabic (ar) إنزيمات الاقتطاع		1
3	Estonian (et) Restriktaasid		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Restrikciós endonukleáz		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Рестрикционна ендонуклеаза		0
6	Catalan (ca) Enzim de restricció		0
7	Czech (cs) Restrikční endonukleáza		0
8	Danish (da) Restriktionsenzym		0
9	German (de) Restriktionsenzym		0
10	Greek (el) Περιοριστικές ενδονουκλεάσες		0

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

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