Université de Lyon

University of Lyon - French university system, in Lyon, France. This university is the 1680^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 343^rd most popular university in French Wikipedia. Article “Université de Lyon” in French Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.45 points.

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 “Université de Lyon”, its content was written by 101 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 442 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

University of Lyon is on the 343^rd place in local ranking of universities in French Wikipedia and on the 1680^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 700 times in French Wikipedia and cited 3525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #9433 in January 2012
• Global: #23267 in July 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #65650 in September 2017
• Global: #246462 in January 2015

There are 27 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) University of Lyon		40.1213
2	Chinese (zh) 里昂大学		39.3952
3	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת ליון		35.949
4	Ukrainian (uk) Ліонський університет		28.1607
5	French (fr) Université de Lyon		27.5217
6	Norwegian (no) Université de Lyon		25.5268
7	Arabic (ar) جامعة ليون		24.5885
8	Esperanto (eo) Universitato de Liono		20.7149
9	German (de) Universität Lyon		18.2191
10	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Λυών		15.6935

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Université de Lyon" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) University of Lyon		386 096
2	French (fr) Université de Lyon		198 428
3	Japanese (ja) リヨン大学		122 292
4	Chinese (zh) 里昂大学		69 499
5	Spanish (es) Universidad de Lyon		63 148
6	German (de) Universität Lyon		52 951
7	Arabic (ar) جامعة ليون		51 235
8	Russian (ru) Лионский университет		34 288
9	Portuguese (pt) Universidade de Lyon		33 052
10	Italian (it) Università di Lione		25 235

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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 "Université de Lyon" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) University of Lyon		1 493
2	French (fr) Université de Lyon		619
3	Chinese (zh) 里昂大学		479
4	Japanese (ja) リヨン大学		282
5	Arabic (ar) جامعة ليون		182
6	Russian (ru) Лионский университет		173
7	Spanish (es) Universidad de Lyon		148
8	German (de) Universität Lyon		142
9	Turkish (tr) Lyon Üniversitesi		124
10	Italian (it) Università di Lione		122

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Université de Lyon		101
2	English (en) University of Lyon		74
3	German (de) Universität Lyon		52
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Lyon		24
5	Chinese (zh) 里昂大学		21
6	Italian (it) Università di Lione		16
7	Russian (ru) Лионский университет		16
8	Portuguese (pt) Universidade de Lyon		15
9	Japanese (ja) リヨン大学		14
10	Turkish (tr) Lyon Üniversitesi		14

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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 "Université de Lyon" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) University of Lyon		1
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة ليون		0
3	Belarusian (be) Ліёнскі ўніверсітэт		0
4	Czech (cs) Lyonská univerzita		0
5	German (de) Universität Lyon		0
6	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Λυών		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Universitato de Liono		0
8	Spanish (es) Universidad de Lyon		0
9	Basque (eu) Lyongo unibertsitatea		0
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه لیون		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 "Université de Lyon" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Université de Lyon		700
2	English (en) University of Lyon		557
3	German (de) Universität Lyon		394
4	Russian (ru) Лионский университет		225
5	Chinese (zh) 里昂大学		225
6	Spanish (es) Universidad de Lyon		151
7	Japanese (ja) リヨン大学		151
8	Arabic (ar) جامعة ليون		148
9	Italian (it) Università di Lione		138
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ліонський університет		131

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جامعة ليون
be	Belarusian Ліёнскі ўніверсітэт
cs	Czech Lyonská univerzita
de	German Universität Lyon
el	Greek Πανεπιστήμιο της Λυών
en	English University of Lyon
eo	Esperanto Universitato de Liono
es	Spanish Universidad de Lyon
eu	Basque Lyongo unibertsitatea
fa	Persian دانشگاه لیون
fr	French Université de Lyon
he	Hebrew אוניברסיטת ליון
it	Italian Università di Lione
ja	Japanese リヨン大学
ko	Korean 리옹 대학교
la	Latin Universitas Lugdunensis
nl	Dutch Universiteit van Lyon
no	Norwegian Université de Lyon
pt	Portuguese Universidade de Lyon
ru	Russian Лионский университет
simple	Simple English University of Lyon
sv	Swedish Lyons universitet
tr	Turkish Lyon Üniversitesi
uk	Ukrainian Ліонський університет
uz	Uzbek Lion universitetlari guruhi
vi	Vietnamese Đại học Lyon
zh	Chinese 里昂大学

Best Rank

French: #65650 09.2017

Global: #246462 01.2015

Best Rank

French: #9433 01.2012

Global: #23267 07.2013

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