Novitchok

Quality:

Novichok - series of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union and Russia. Article “Novitchok” in French Wikipedia has 58.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 83 references and 19 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Novitchok”, its content was written by 70 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1042 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1762 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #362 in July 2018
• Global: #20 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #162 in September 2020
• Global: #44 in September 2020

There are 38 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) Novichok		99.4872
2	German (de) Nowitschok		98.6667
3	Russian (ru) Новичок (отравляющие вещества)		90.3077
4	Slovenian (sl) Novičok		86.6667
5	Polish (pl) Nowiczoki		71.601
6	Catalan (ca) Novitxok		61.4638
7	Chinese (zh) 諾維喬克		60.2108
8	French (fr) Novitchok		58.7776
9	Finnish (fi) Novitšok		54.268
10	Ukrainian (uk) Новичок (хімічна зброя)		51.6959

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Novichok		6 270 648
2	Russian (ru) Новичок (отравляющие вещества)		2 524 231
3	German (de) Nowitschok		2 082 698
4	Japanese (ja) ノビチョク		710 648
5	Polish (pl) Nowiczoki		643 961
6	French (fr) Novitchok		610 414
7	Spanish (es) Novichok		533 525
8	Italian (it) Novičok		332 224
9	Czech (cs) Novičok		268 995
10	Swedish (sv) Novitjok		159 623

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) Novichok		20 526
2	Russian (ru) Новичок (отравляющие вещества)		10 735
3	German (de) Nowitschok		4 952
4	Japanese (ja) ノビチョク		2 921
5	French (fr) Novitchok		2 221
6	Polish (pl) Nowiczoki		1 928
7	Spanish (es) Novichok		1 157
8	Italian (it) Novičok		950
9	Czech (cs) Novičok		650
10	Chinese (zh) 諾維喬克		549

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Novichok		290
2	German (de) Nowitschok		183
3	Russian (ru) Новичок (отравляющие вещества)		111
4	French (fr) Novitchok		70
5	Italian (it) Novičok		52
6	Czech (cs) Novičok		35
7	Japanese (ja) ノビチョク		31
8	Chinese (zh) 諾維喬克		30
9	Spanish (es) Novichok		22
10	Polish (pl) Nowiczoki		22

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	Catalan (ca) Novitxok		1
2	Czech (cs) Novičok		1
3	Greek (el) Νοβιτσόκ		1
4	Basque (eu) Novitxok seriea		1
5	Romanian (ro) Noviciok		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Novičok		1
7	Arabic (ar) نوفيتشوك		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Noviçok		0
9	Belarusian (be) Навічок (хімічная зброя)		0
10	German (de) Nowitschok		0

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

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