Cataract

Quality:

Cataract - clouding of the lens inside the eye, which leads to low vision. Article “Cataract” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5959^th most popular in all topics.

The 9577^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Cataract”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2622 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9577^th place).

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #399 in July 2008
• Global: #2013 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1825 in January 2026
• Global: #2694 in April 2013

There are 53 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) Cataract		97.7475
2	German (de) Katarakt (Medizin)		92.7725
3	Armenian (hy) Կատարակտ		80.8774
4	Tamil (ta) கண்புரை நோய்		69.4176
5	Arabic (ar) الساد		63.1643
6	Thai (th) ต้อกระจก		60.1882
7	Korean (ko) 백내장		53.9337
8	French (fr) Cataracte (maladie)		50.7086
9	Dutch (nl) Cataract (oogaandoening)		50.3745
10	Ukrainian (uk) Катаракта		50.1989

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cataract		13 193 489
2	German (de) Katarakt (Medizin)		4 825 780
3	Japanese (ja) 白内障		2 778 862
4	Russian (ru) Катаракта		2 598 228
5	French (fr) Cataracte (maladie)		2 222 509
6	Spanish (es) Catarata		2 124 848
7	Polish (pl) Zaćma		1 550 018
8	Chinese (zh) 白内障		1 345 193
9	Italian (it) Cataratta		1 188 875
10	Portuguese (pt) Catarata		752 241

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) Cataract		17 425
2	German (de) Katarakt (Medizin)		6 532
3	French (fr) Cataracte (maladie)		2 320
4	Russian (ru) Катаракта		1 938
5	Japanese (ja) 白内障		1 825
6	Persian (fa) آب‌مروارید		1 695
7	Chinese (zh) 白内障		1 387
8	Polish (pl) Zaćma		1 102
9	Dutch (nl) Cataract (oogaandoening)		747
10	Spanish (es) Catarata		730

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cataract		587
2	German (de) Katarakt (Medizin)		295
3	French (fr) Cataracte (maladie)		170
4	Russian (ru) Катаракта		111
5	Italian (it) Cataratta		106
6	Spanish (es) Catarata		96
7	Japanese (ja) 白内障		84
8	Dutch (nl) Cataract (oogaandoening)		79
9	Hebrew (he) קטרקט		77
10	Chinese (zh) 白内障		69

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	German (de) Katarakt (Medizin)		2
2	Finnish (fi) Harmaakaihi		1
3	Tamil (ta) கண்புரை நோய்		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đục thủy tinh thể		1
5	Arabic (ar) الساد		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Katarakta		0
7	Belarusian (be) Катаракта		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Катаракта		0
9	Catalan (ca) Cataracta		0
10	Czech (cs) Šedý zákal		0

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

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