2001 anthrax attacks

Quality:

2001 anthrax attacks - terrorist attack in the United States. Article “2001 anthrax attacks” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2001 anthrax attacks”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1299 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1097 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #191 in September 2018
• Global: #144 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18602 in June 2026
• Global: #6286 in September 2022

There are 25 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) 2001 anthrax attacks		93.4484
2	Chinese (zh) 2001年美國炭疽攻擊事件		89.0397
3	Russian (ru) Письма со спорами сибирской язвы		83.6887
4	Japanese (ja) アメリカ炭疽菌事件		40.5284
5	German (de) Anthrax-Anschläge 2001		36.7141
6	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ tấn công bệnh than 2001		34.4033
7	Serbian (sr) Антраксна кампања у САД 2001.		31.1545
8	Thai (th) เหตุโจมตีด้วยแอนแทรกซ์ พ.ศ. 2544		28.1077
9	Spanish (es) Ataques con carbunco en 2001		24.626
10	Italian (it) Attacchi all'antrace del 2001		23.6508

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2001 anthrax attacks		7 031 519
2	Japanese (ja) アメリカ炭疽菌事件		844 078
3	German (de) Anthrax-Anschläge 2001		502 064
4	Spanish (es) Ataques con carbunco en 2001		483 865
5	Russian (ru) Письма со спорами сибирской язвы		334 211
6	French (fr) Enveloppes contaminées au bacille du charbon		262 639
7	Chinese (zh) 2001年美國炭疽攻擊事件		258 453
8	Italian (it) Attacchi all'antrace del 2001		137 717
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataques com carbúnculo nos Estados Unidos em 2001		111 200
10	Swedish (sv) Mjältbrandsattackerna i USA 2001		100 583

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) 2001 anthrax attacks		27 197
2	Japanese (ja) アメリカ炭疽菌事件		2 762
3	Russian (ru) Письма со спорами сибирской язвы		2 136
4	German (de) Anthrax-Anschläge 2001		1 212
5	Spanish (es) Ataques con carbunco en 2001		1 056
6	French (fr) Enveloppes contaminées au bacille du charbon		993
7	Chinese (zh) 2001年美國炭疽攻擊事件		819
8	Italian (it) Attacchi all'antrace del 2001		505
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataques com carbúnculo nos Estados Unidos em 2001		208
10	Swedish (sv) Mjältbrandsattackerna i USA 2001		192

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2001 anthrax attacks		700
2	German (de) Anthrax-Anschläge 2001		108
3	French (fr) Enveloppes contaminées au bacille du charbon		92
4	Japanese (ja) アメリカ炭疽菌事件		49
5	Hebrew (he) מתקפת האנתרקס		41
6	Spanish (es) Ataques con carbunco en 2001		38
7	Russian (ru) Письма со спорами сибирской язвы		36
8	Chinese (zh) 2001年美國炭疽攻擊事件		35
9	Italian (it) Attacchi all'antrace del 2001		33
10	Finnish (fi) Pernaruttokirjeet		32

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	English (en) 2001 anthrax attacks		4
2	Hebrew (he) מתקפת האנתרקס		1
3	Japanese (ja) アメリカ炭疽菌事件		1
4	Russian (ru) Письма со спорами сибирской язвы		1
5	Arabic (ar) هجمات الجمرة الخبيثة 2001		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Атаки с антракс от 2001 г.		0
7	Czech (cs) Anthraxové dopisy ve Spojených státech amerických		0
8	Danish (da) Miltbrandangrebet i USA 2001		0
9	German (de) Anthrax-Anschläge 2001		0
10	Spanish (es) Ataques con carbunco en 2001		0

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

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