Protection planétaire

Planetary protection - guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth. Article “Protection planétaire” in French Wikipedia has 21.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Protection planétaire”, its content was written by 15 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 198 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1145 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #9067 in July 2016
• Global: #34029 in July 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #237205 in December 2019
• Global: #202365 in February 2015

There are 13 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	Chinese (zh) 行星保护		80.9128
2	English (en) Planetary protection		78.4377
3	Russian (ru) Планетарная защита		37.1889
4	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		30.7553
5	German (de) Planetary Protection		28.7698
6	Slovak (sk) Planetárna ochrana		27.7705
7	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		23.2581
8	French (fr) Protection planétaire		21.8709
9	Persian (fa) حفاظت از سیاره		17.0188
10	Arabic (ar) حماية كوكبية		16.6506

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Protection planétaire" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Planetary protection		475 557
2	German (de) Planetary Protection		60 239
3	Russian (ru) Планетарная защита		24 405
4	French (fr) Protection planétaire		14 138
5	Chinese (zh) 行星保护		3 814
6	Arabic (ar) حماية كوكبية		1 990
7	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		1 662
8	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		1 172
9	Japanese (ja) 惑星保護		641
10	Estonian (et) Planeetide kaitse		622

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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 "Protection planétaire" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Planetary protection		2 045
2	German (de) Planetary Protection		186
3	Russian (ru) Планетарная защита		140
4	French (fr) Protection planétaire		79
5	Chinese (zh) 行星保护		74
6	Japanese (ja) 惑星保護		43
7	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		23
8	Slovak (sk) Planetárna ochrana		14
9	Persian (fa) حفاظت از سیاره		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		12

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Planetary protection		114
2	German (de) Planetary Protection		30
3	French (fr) Protection planétaire		15
4	Russian (ru) Планетарная защита		15
5	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		5
6	Chinese (zh) 行星保护		4
7	Estonian (et) Planeetide kaitse		3
8	Japanese (ja) 惑星保護		3
9	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		3
10	Slovak (sk) Planetárna ochrana		3

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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 "Protection planétaire" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حماية كوكبية		0
2	German (de) Planetary Protection		0
3	English (en) Planetary protection		0
4	Estonian (et) Planeetide kaitse		0
5	Persian (fa) حفاظت از سیاره		0
6	French (fr) Protection planétaire		0
7	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		0
8	Japanese (ja) 惑星保護		0
9	Korean (ko) 행성 보호		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		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 "Protection planétaire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Planetary protection		497
2	Arabic (ar) حماية كوكبية		248
3	Russian (ru) Планетарная защита		95
4	Chinese (zh) 行星保护		94
5	Italian (it) Protezione planetaria		64
6	French (fr) Protection planétaire		63
7	Portuguese (pt) Proteção planetária		33
8	Korean (ko) 행성 보호		23
9	German (de) Planetary Protection		14
10	Japanese (ja) 惑星保護		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حماية كوكبية
de	German Planetary Protection
en	English Planetary protection
et	Estonian Planeetide kaitse
fa	Persian حفاظت از سیاره
fr	French Protection planétaire
it	Italian Protezione planetaria
ja	Japanese 惑星保護
ko	Korean 행성 보호
pt	Portuguese Proteção planetária
ru	Russian Планетарная защита
sk	Slovak Planetárna ochrana
zh	Chinese 行星保护

Best Rank

French: #237205 12.2019

Global: #202365 02.2015

Best Rank

French: #9067 07.2016

Global: #34029 07.2013

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