Social history of viruses

Quality:

Social history of viruses - Influence of viruses and viral infections on human history. Article “Social history of viruses” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 360 references and 25 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 “Social history of viruses” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Social history of viruses”, its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 138 times in English Wikipedia and cited 306 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #607 in August 2013
• Global: #5169 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2097 in March 2020
• Global: #3127 in March 2020

There are 11 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) Social history of viruses		100
2	Indonesian (id) Virus dalam sejarah manusia		100
3	Portuguese (pt) História social dos vírus		100
4	Spanish (es) Historia social de los virus		100
5	Uzbek (uz) Viruslarning ijtimoiy tarixi		100
6	Estonian (et) Viirused inimkonna ajaloos		100
7	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの社会史		95.7742
8	Chinese (zh) 病毒社会史		95
9	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الاجتماعي للفيروسات		62.0302
10	Korean (ko) 바이러스의 사회사		6.8275

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social history of viruses		894 470
2	Spanish (es) Historia social de los virus		417 980
3	Indonesian (id) Virus dalam sejarah manusia		85 006
4	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الاجتماعي للفيروسات		77 863
5	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの社会史		61 679
6	Estonian (et) Viirused inimkonna ajaloos		30 880
7	Uzbek (uz) Viruslarning ijtimoiy tarixi		13 842
8	Chinese (zh) 病毒社会史		2 993
9	Portuguese (pt) História social dos vírus		912
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xã hội của virus		549

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) Social history of viruses		1 175
2	Indonesian (id) Virus dalam sejarah manusia		275
3	Portuguese (pt) História social dos vírus		274
4	Spanish (es) Historia social de los virus		264
5	Uzbek (uz) Viruslarning ijtimoiy tarixi		249
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの社会史		225
7	Chinese (zh) 病毒社会史		122
8	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الاجتماعي للفيروسات		99
9	Estonian (et) Viirused inimkonna ajaloos		65
10	Korean (ko) 바이러스의 사회사		14

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social history of viruses		139
2	Spanish (es) Historia social de los virus		25
3	Uzbek (uz) Viruslarning ijtimoiy tarixi		24
4	Indonesian (id) Virus dalam sejarah manusia		18
5	Estonian (et) Viirused inimkonna ajaloos		17
6	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الاجتماعي للفيروسات		15
7	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの社会史		8
8	Chinese (zh) 病毒社会史		3
9	Portuguese (pt) História social dos vírus		2
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xã hội của virus		2

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) Social history of viruses		1
2	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الاجتماعي للفيروسات		0
3	Spanish (es) Historia social de los virus		0
4	Estonian (et) Viirused inimkonna ajaloos		0
5	Indonesian (id) Virus dalam sejarah manusia		0
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルスの社会史		0
7	Korean (ko) 바이러스의 사회사		0
8	Portuguese (pt) História social dos vírus		0
9	Uzbek (uz) Viruslarning ijtimoiy tarixi		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xã hội của virus		0

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

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