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PLOS ONE

Quality:

PLOS One - peer-reviewed open-access journal. Article “PLOS ONE” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “PLOS ONE”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 440 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 164 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 7011 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Portuguese): #9348 in September 2012
  • Global: #13893 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Portuguese): #75320 in December 2023
  • Global: #54664 in February 2013

There are 22 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
PLOS One
68.1358
2Vietnamese (vi)
PLOS One
44.8668
3Japanese (ja)
PLOS ONE
31.4934
4Ukrainian (uk)
PLOS One
31.1103
5Catalan (ca)
PLOS One
30.312
6Simple English (simple)
PLOS ONE
29.5967
7Basque (eu)
PLOS ONE
29.0318
8Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
27.5866
9Chinese (zh)
PLOS ONE
27.198
10German (de)
PLOS ONE
27.1631
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "PLOS ONE" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
PLOS One
2 610 637
2Japanese (ja)
PLOS ONE
293 361
3German (de)
PLOS ONE
197 599
4French (fr)
PLOS One
128 795
5Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
114 638
6Chinese (zh)
PLOS ONE
76 830
7Portuguese (pt)
PLOS ONE
55 451
8Polish (pl)
PLOS One
53 071
9Italian (it)
PLOS ONE
38 116
10Korean (ko)
PLOS ONE
29 946
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "PLOS ONE" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
PLOS One
5 915
2Japanese (ja)
PLOS ONE
869
3Chinese (zh)
PLOS ONE
533
4German (de)
PLOS ONE
389
5Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
319
6French (fr)
PLOS One
291
7Simple English (simple)
PLOS ONE
198
8Russian (ru)
PLOS One
191
9Korean (ko)
PLOS ONE
148
10Italian (it)
PLOS ONE
141
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "PLOS ONE" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
PLOS One
209
2French (fr)
PLOS One
39
3German (de)
PLOS ONE
33
4Chinese (zh)
PLOS ONE
18
5Polish (pl)
PLOS One
17
6Japanese (ja)
PLOS ONE
15
7Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
14
8Swedish (sv)
PLOS ONE
12
9Portuguese (pt)
PLOS ONE
11
10Italian (it)
PLOS ONE
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "PLOS ONE" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
PLOS One
3
2Arabic (ar)
بلوس ون
0
3Catalan (ca)
PLOS One
0
4German (de)
PLOS ONE
0
5Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
0
6Basque (eu)
PLOS ONE
0
7Persian (fa)
پلاس وان
0
8Finnish (fi)
Plos One
0
9French (fr)
PLOS One
0
10Italian (it)
PLOS ONE
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "PLOS ONE" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
PLOS One
2 527
2French (fr)
PLOS One
885
3Russian (ru)
PLOS One
652
4German (de)
PLOS ONE
647
5Polish (pl)
PLOS One
456
6Spanish (es)
PLOS ONE
429
7Chinese (zh)
PLOS ONE
210
8Arabic (ar)
بلوس ون
209
9Japanese (ja)
PLOS ONE
175
10Catalan (ca)
PLOS One
169
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بلوس ون
caCatalan
PLOS One
deGerman
PLOS ONE
enEnglish
PLOS One
esSpanish
PLOS ONE
euBasque
PLOS ONE
faPersian
پلاس وان
fiFinnish
Plos One
frFrench
PLOS One
itItalian
PLOS ONE
jaJapanese
PLOS ONE
koKorean
PLOS ONE
nlDutch
PLOS ONE
plPolish
PLOS One
ptPortuguese
PLOS ONE
ruRussian
PLOS One
simpleSimple English
PLOS ONE
svSwedish
PLOS ONE
thThai
PLOS ONE
ukUkrainian
PLOS One
viVietnamese
PLOS One
zhChinese
PLOS ONE

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Portuguese:
#75320
12.2023
Global:
#54664
02.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Portuguese:
#9348
09.2012
Global:
#13893
09.2012

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on PLOS One from Wikipedia articles about Scientific Reports, Public Library of Science, Mega journal, Impact factor and Adrian helmet. Whereas reading the article about PLOS One people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Public Library of Science, Impact factor, Mega journal, Scientific Reports and Journal Citation Reports.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: PLOS ONE

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