TeX

TeX - typesetting system. This programming language is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 24^th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “TeX” in Japanese Wikipedia has 36.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 49 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.92 points.

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

Since the creation of article “TeX”, its content was written by 99 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 2251 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

TeX is on the 24^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 397 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 3753 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #126 in March 2003
• Global: #71 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #13773 in January 2013
• Global: #10210 in December 2025

There are 40 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) TeX		70.0854
2	German (de) TeX		59.3926
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) TeX		55.51
4	Indonesian (id) TeX		54.65
5	Chinese (zh) TeX		50.2895
6	Portuguese (pt) TeX		36.6898
7	French (fr) TeX		36.6324
8	Japanese (ja) TeX		36.5179
9	Tamil (ta) டெக்சு		36.3925
10	Serbian (sr) TeX		33.3906

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) TeX		4 058 115
2	Japanese (ja) TeX		1 068 838
3	German (de) TeX		922 461
4	Russian (ru) TeX		751 489
5	Spanish (es) TeX		369 242
6	French (fr) TeX		302 598
7	Chinese (zh) TeX		287 073
8	Polish (pl) TeX		214 724
9	Italian (it) TeX		145 233
10	Czech (cs) TeX		113 254

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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 "TeX" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) TeX		10 565
2	Japanese (ja) TeX		1 863
3	German (de) TeX		1 086
4	Russian (ru) TeX		748
5	French (fr) TeX		553
6	Chinese (zh) TeX		497
7	Spanish (es) TeX		330
8	Polish (pl) TeX		215
9	Portuguese (pt) TeX		202
10	Czech (cs) TeX		169

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) TeX		611
2	German (de) TeX		260
3	French (fr) TeX		160
4	Russian (ru) TeX		125
5	Japanese (ja) TeX		99
6	Chinese (zh) TeX		99
7	Italian (it) TeX		90
8	Polish (pl) TeX		71
9	Spanish (es) TeX		69
10	Dutch (nl) TeX		65

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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 "TeX" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) TeX		8
2	Arabic (ar) تخ (برمجية)		1
3	Catalan (ca) TeX		1
4	Czech (cs) TeX		1
5	Danish (da) TeX		1
6	Basque (eu) TeX		1
7	Armenian (hy) TeX		1
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) TeX		1
9	Serbian (sr) TeX		1
10	Chinese (zh) TeX		1

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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 "TeX" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) TeX		861
2	Japanese (ja) TeX		397
3	German (de) TeX		287
4	Chinese (zh) TeX		273
5	French (fr) TeX		215
6	Russian (ru) TeX		205
7	Ukrainian (uk) TeX		147
8	Spanish (es) TeX		136
9	Korean (ko) TeX		121
10	Dutch (nl) TeX		102

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تخ (برمجية)
be	Belarusian TeX
bg	Bulgarian TeX
ca	Catalan TeX
cs	Czech TeX
da	Danish TeX
de	German TeX
en	English TeX
eo	Esperanto TeX
es	Spanish TeX
et	Estonian TeX
eu	Basque TeX
fa	Persian تک (نرم‌افزار)
fi	Finnish TeX
fr	French TeX
gl	Galician TeX
hu	Hungarian TeX
hy	Armenian TeX
id	Indonesian TeX
it	Italian TeX
ja	Japanese TeX
ko	Korean TeX
lt	Lithuanian TeX
nl	Dutch TeX
no	Norwegian TeX
pl	Polish TeX
pt	Portuguese TeX
ro	Romanian TeX
ru	Russian TeX
sh	Serbo-Croatian TeX
sk	Slovak TeX
sl	Slovenian TeX
sr	Serbian TeX
sv	Swedish Tex
ta	Tamil டெக்சு
th	Thai เทกซ์
uk	Ukrainian TeX
ur	Urdu ٹیک
vi	Vietnamese TeX
zh	Chinese TeX

Best Rank

Japanese: #13773 01.2013

Global: #10210 12.2025

Best Rank

Japanese: #126 03.2003

Global: #71 09.2002

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