Virus herpes simpleks

Quality:

Herpes simplex virus type 1 - species of virus. This taxon is the 313^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Virus herpes simpleks” in Malay Wikipedia has 42.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 313^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Virus herpes simpleks”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 1299 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 is on the 313^th place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 2695 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #7040 in January 2026
• Global: #5535 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #49525 in February 2026
• Global: #6447 in November 2019

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, 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) Herpes simplex virus		87.0596
2	Turkish (tr) Herpes simpleks virüsü		65.5217
3	Serbian (sr) Херпес симплекс вирус		51.091
4	Malay (ms) Virus herpes simpleks		42.7255
5	Spanish (es) Virus del herpes simple		42.2613
6	Chinese (zh) 单纯疱疹病毒		38.2056
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Herpes simplexvirus		35.4298
8	Russian (ru) Вирус простого герпеса первого типа		33.4555
9	Romanian (ro) Virus herpes simplex		30.8797
10	Slovenian (sl) Virus herpesa simpleksa		30.8107

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Herpes simplex virus		13 724 291
2	Spanish (es) Virus del herpes simple		2 106 847
3	Chinese (zh) 单纯疱疹病毒		946 104
4	Japanese (ja) 単純ヘルペスウイルス		920 806
5	German (de) Herpes-simplex-Viren		909 910
6	Polish (pl) Wirus opryszczki pospolitej		848 838
7	Italian (it) Virus dell'herpes simplex		597 907
8	Persian (fa) ویروس هرپس سیمپلکس		580 885
9	Russian (ru) Вирус простого герпеса первого типа		571 006
10	Dutch (nl) Herpes-simplexvirus		448 333

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) Herpes simplex virus		12 381
2	Chinese (zh) 单纯疱疹病毒		2 148
3	Persian (fa) ویروس هرپس سیمپلکس		2 050
4	Russian (ru) Вирус простого герпеса первого типа		1 232
5	German (de) Herpes-simplex-Viren		812
6	Polish (pl) Wirus opryszczki pospolitej		748
7	Spanish (es) Virus del herpes simple		715
8	Japanese (ja) 単純ヘルペスウイルス		397
9	Italian (it) Virus dell'herpes simplex		339
10	Czech (cs) Herpes simplex virus		296

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Herpes simplex virus		703
2	Italian (it) Virus dell'herpes simplex		78
3	German (de) Herpes-simplex-Viren		63
4	Turkish (tr) Herpes simpleks virüsü		59
5	Dutch (nl) Herpes-simplexvirus		53
6	Spanish (es) Virus del herpes simple		50
7	Chinese (zh) 单纯疱疹病毒		44
8	Japanese (ja) 単純ヘルペスウイルス		38
9	Polish (pl) Wirus opryszczki pospolitej		32
10	Czech (cs) Herpes simplex virus		27

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	Arabic (ar) فيروس الهربس البسيط		2
2	English (en) Herpes simplex virus		2
3	Czech (cs) Herpes simplex virus		1
4	Spanish (es) Virus del herpes simple		1
5	Basque (eu) Herpes birus soil		1
6	Russian (ru) Вирус простого герпеса первого типа		1
7	Catalan (ca) Herpesvirus simple		0
8	German (de) Herpes-simplex-Viren		0
9	Persian (fa) ویروس هرپس سیمپلکس		0
10	Hindi (hi) हर्पिस सिम्प्लेक्स		0

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

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