SAM (file format)

Sequence Alignment/Map - file format. Article "SAM (file format)" in English Wikipedia has 23.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "SAM (file format)", its content was written by 34 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 57 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 91 times in English Wikipedia and cited 106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #79620 in August 2018
• Global: #258409 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #222152 in April 2019
• Global: #377279 in October 2019

There are 7 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	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		29.3244
2	English (en) SAM (file format)		23.2639
3	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		22.5586
4	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		22.2335
5	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		21.9365
6	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		19.9329
7	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		16.9091

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

The most popular language versions of the article "SAM (file format)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SAM (file format)		373 041
2	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		14 205
3	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		2 301
4	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		527
5	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		457
6	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		423
7	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		147

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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 "SAM (file format)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SAM (file format)		1 849
2	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		98
3	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		67
4	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		58
5	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		41
6	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		11
7	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SAM (file format)		34
2	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		8
3	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		8
4	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		3
5	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		2
6	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		1
7	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		1

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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 "SAM (file format)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		0
2	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		0
3	English (en) SAM (file format)		0
4	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		0
5	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		0
6	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		0
7	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		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 "SAM (file format)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) SAM (file format)		91
2	Spanish (es) Formato SAM		3
3	French (fr) SAM (format de fichier)		3
4	Hebrew (he) SAM (פורמט קובץ)		3
5	Chinese (zh) SAM格式		3
6	German (de) SAM (Dateiformat)		2
7	Catalan (ca) Format SAM		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Format SAM
de	German SAM (Dateiformat)
en	English SAM (file format)
es	Spanish Formato SAM
fr	French SAM (format de fichier)
he	Hebrew SAM (פורמט קובץ)
zh	Chinese SAM格式

Best Rank

English: #222152 04.2019

Global: #377279 10.2019

Best Rank

English: #79620 08.2018

Global: #258409 08.2018

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