CTAN

Comprehensive TeX Archive Network - authoritative place where TeX related material and software can be found for download. This website is the 4485^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 902^nd most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “CTAN” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “CTAN”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is on the 902^nd place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 4485^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 340 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3320 in July 2020
• Global: #12864 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #42268 in July 2020
• Global: #316952 in February 2008

There are 16 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	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		33.7634
2	Simple English (simple) CTAN		29.39
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) CTAN		17.1925
4	English (en) CTAN		14.2965
5	Serbian (sr) CTAN		12.2476
6	Ukrainian (uk) CTAN		11.8461
7	Korean (ko) CTAN		10.0134
8	Japanese (ja) CTAN		9.4249
9	Portuguese (pt) CTAN		9.212
10	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		8.6863

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) CTAN		133 162
2	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		39 606
3	Russian (ru) CTAN		22 833
4	Spanish (es) CTAN		17 574
5	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		14 780
6	Polish (pl) CTAN		14 059
7	Italian (it) CTAN		13 181
8	Chinese (zh) CTAN		10 376
9	Japanese (ja) CTAN		4 260
10	Swedish (sv) CTAN		3 655

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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 "CTAN" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) CTAN		210
2	Chinese (zh) CTAN		62
3	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		53
4	Japanese (ja) CTAN		51
5	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		20
6	Spanish (es) CTAN		19
7	Russian (ru) CTAN		16
8	Serbian (sr) CTAN		15
9	Polish (pl) CTAN		12
10	Simple English (simple) CTAN		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) CTAN		43
2	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		34
3	Italian (it) CTAN		33
4	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		30
5	Russian (ru) CTAN		11
6	Spanish (es) CTAN		9
7	Swedish (sv) CTAN		9
8	Chinese (zh) CTAN		7
9	Japanese (ja) CTAN		5
10	Polish (pl) CTAN		5

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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 "CTAN" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) CTAN		1
2	Korean (ko) CTAN		1
3	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		0
4	Spanish (es) CTAN		0
5	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		0
6	Italian (it) CTAN		0
7	Japanese (ja) CTAN		0
8	Polish (pl) CTAN		0
9	Portuguese (pt) CTAN		0
10	Russian (ru) CTAN		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 "CTAN" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) CTAN		101
2	English (en) CTAN		60
3	French (fr) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		41
4	German (de) Comprehensive TeX Archive Network		31
5	Russian (ru) CTAN		25
6	Chinese (zh) CTAN		17
7	Serbian (sr) CTAN		15
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) CTAN		10
9	Spanish (es) CTAN		8
10	Ukrainian (uk) CTAN		8

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#	Language	Value
de	German Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
en	English CTAN
es	Spanish CTAN
fr	French Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
it	Italian CTAN
ja	Japanese CTAN
ko	Korean CTAN
pl	Polish CTAN
pt	Portuguese CTAN
ru	Russian CTAN
sh	Serbo-Croatian CTAN
simple	Simple English CTAN
sr	Serbian CTAN
sv	Swedish CTAN
uk	Ukrainian CTAN
zh	Chinese CTAN

Best Rank

Simple English: #42268 07.2020

Global: #316952 02.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #3320 07.2020

Global: #12864 02.2003

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