Reverse transcriptase

Reverse transcriptase - an enzyme which generates DNA from an RNA template, a process termed reverse transcription. Article "Reverse transcriptase" in English Wikipedia has 57.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Reverse transcriptase" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Reverse transcriptase", its content was written by 188 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 852 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1064 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3315 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1461 in November 2001
• Global: #1592 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29794 in April 2008
• Global: #20584 in December 2020

There are 41 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) Reverse transcriptase		57.3243
2	Greek (el) Αντίστροφη μεταγραφάση		50.6607
3	Chinese (zh) 逆转录酶		49.2791
4	Estonian (et) Pöördtranskriptaas		43.1094
5	Turkish (tr) Ters transkriptaz		42.17
6	Armenian (hy) Հակադարձ տրանսկրիպտազ		41.695
7	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		34.8132
8	Catalan (ca) Transcriptasa inversa		34.286
9	Galician (gl) Transcriptase inversa		32.6387
10	Dutch (nl) Reverse-transcriptase		32.0257

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Reverse transcriptase" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reverse transcriptase		3 894 167
2	Spanish (es) Transcriptasa inversa		863 173
3	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		590 253
4	Japanese (ja) 逆転写酵素		477 530
5	Portuguese (pt) Transcriptase reversa		404 476
6	French (fr) Transcriptase inverse		404 193
7	Italian (it) DNA polimerasi (RNA-dipendente)		365 561
8	Russian (ru) Обратная транскриптаза		217 917
9	Polish (pl) Odwrotna transkryptaza		215 503
10	Chinese (zh) 逆转录酶		196 012

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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 "Reverse transcriptase" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reverse transcriptase		4 499
2	Japanese (ja) 逆転写酵素		670
3	French (fr) Transcriptase inverse		488
4	Russian (ru) Обратная транскриптаза		477
5	Vietnamese (vi) Enzyme phiên mã ngược		460
6	Chinese (zh) 逆转录酶		437
7	Italian (it) DNA polimerasi (RNA-dipendente)		385
8	Spanish (es) Transcriptasa inversa		381
9	Korean (ko) 역전사 효소		338
10	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		318

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reverse transcriptase		188
2	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		74
3	French (fr) Transcriptase inverse		62
4	Italian (it) DNA polimerasi (RNA-dipendente)		49
5	Hebrew (he) רוורס טרנסקריפטאז		37
6	Russian (ru) Обратная транскриптаза		35
7	Spanish (es) Transcriptasa inversa		32
8	Japanese (ja) 逆転写酵素		30
9	Dutch (nl) Reverse-transcriptase		30
10	Chinese (zh) 逆转录酶		30

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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 "Reverse transcriptase" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Slovak (sk) Reverzná transkriptáza		2
2	English (en) Reverse transcriptase		1
3	Dutch (nl) Reverse-transcriptase		1
4	Arabic (ar) منتسخة عكسية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Transcriptasa inversa		0
6	Czech (cs) Reverzní transkriptáza		0
7	Danish (da) Revers transkriptase		0
8	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		0
9	Greek (el) Αντίστροφη μεταγραφάση		0
10	Spanish (es) Transcriptasa inversa		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 "Reverse transcriptase" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Reverse transcriptase		1 064
2	Japanese (ja) 逆転写酵素		155
3	Chinese (zh) 逆转录酶		155
4	Persian (fa) آنزیم رونوشت‌بردار معکوس		137
5	German (de) Reverse Transkriptase		136
6	French (fr) Transcriptase inverse		130
7	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотна транскриптаза		127
8	Spanish (es) Transcriptasa inversa		126
9	Galician (gl) Transcriptase inversa		117
10	Russian (ru) Обратная транскриптаза		101

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic منتسخة عكسية
ca	Catalan Transcriptasa inversa
cs	Czech Reverzní transkriptáza
da	Danish Revers transkriptase
de	German Reverse Transkriptase
el	Greek Αντίστροφη μεταγραφάση
en	English Reverse transcriptase
es	Spanish Transcriptasa inversa
et	Estonian Pöördtranskriptaas
eu	Basque Alderantzizko transkriptasa
fa	Persian آنزیم رونوشت‌بردار معکوس
fi	Finnish Käänteiskopioijaentsyymi
fr	French Transcriptase inverse
gl	Galician Transcriptase inversa
he	Hebrew רוורס טרנסקריפטאז
hu	Hungarian Reverz transzkriptáz
hy	Armenian Հակադարձ տրանսկրիպտազ
id	Indonesian Transkriptase balik
it	Italian DNA polimerasi (RNA-dipendente)
ja	Japanese 逆転写酵素
ka	Georgian უკუტრანსკრიპტაზა
kk	Kazakh Кері транскриптаза
ko	Korean 역전사 효소
lt	Lithuanian Atvirkštinė transkriptazė
nl	Dutch Reverse-transcriptase
no	Norwegian Revers transkriptase
pl	Polish Odwrotna transkryptaza
pt	Portuguese Transcriptase reversa
ru	Russian Обратная транскриптаза
sh	Serbo-Croatian Reverzna transkriptaza
simple	Simple English Reverse transcriptase
sk	Slovak Reverzná transkriptáza
sl	Slovenian Reverzna transkriptaza
sr	Serbian Reverzna transkriptaza
sv	Swedish Omvänt transkriptas
th	Thai รีเวิร์สแทรนสคริปเทส
tr	Turkish Ters transkriptaz
uk	Ukrainian Зворотна транскриптаза
ur	Urdu معکوس انتساخہ
vi	Vietnamese Enzyme phiên mã ngược
zh	Chinese 逆转录酶

Best Rank

English: #29794 04.2008

Global: #20584 12.2020

Best Rank

English: #1461 11.2001

Global: #1592 11.2001

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