Variola virus

Variola virus (vaccinia) - species of virus. This taxon is the 7882^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Variola virus” in Spanish Wikipedia has 22.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Variola virus”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 146 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Variola virus (vaccinia) is on the 7882^nd place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #13259 in May 2021
• Global: #91729 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #10695 in May 2022
• Global: #53681 in March 2020

There are 8 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	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		60.1895
2	Italian (it) Variola virus		39.69
3	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		32.5497
4	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		25.8552
5	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		22.5699
6	Spanish (es) Variola virus		22.3545
7	Danish (da) Koppevirus		15.9092
8	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		3.7682

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Variola virus" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		446 309
2	Spanish (es) Variola virus		217 081
3	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		104 761
4	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		77 199
5	Italian (it) Variola virus		77 167
6	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		30 975
7	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		9 761
8	Danish (da) Koppevirus		8 193

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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 "Variola virus" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		1 194
2	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		850
3	Italian (it) Variola virus		806
4	Spanish (es) Variola virus		702
5	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		163
6	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		129
7	Danish (da) Koppevirus		52
8	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Variola virus		76
2	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		23
3	Spanish (es) Variola virus		15
4	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		13
5	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		8
6	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		5
7	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		4
8	Danish (da) Koppevirus		2

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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 "Variola virus" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		1
2	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		0
3	Danish (da) Koppevirus		0
4	Spanish (es) Variola virus		0
5	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		0
6	Italian (it) Variola virus		0
7	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		0
8	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		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 "Variola virus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 天然痘ウイルス		47
2	Russian (ru) Вирус натуральной оспы		19
3	Italian (it) Variola virus		16
4	Spanish (es) Variola virus		13
5	Turkish (tr) Çiçek virüsü		9
6	Czech (cs) Virus pravých neštovic		8
7	Danish (da) Koppevirus		6
8	Indonesian (id) Virus cacar		4

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Virus pravých neštovic
da	Danish Koppevirus
es	Spanish Variola virus
id	Indonesian Virus cacar
it	Italian Variola virus
ja	Japanese 天然痘ウイルス
ru	Russian Вирус натуральной оспы
tr	Turkish Çiçek virüsü

Best Rank

Spanish: #10695 05.2022

Global: #53681 03.2020

Best Rank

Spanish: #13259 05.2021

Global: #91729 02.2020

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