Citric acid

Quality:

Citric acid - weak organic acid. Article “Citric acid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 3 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 4175^th most popular in all topics.

The 9830^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Citric acid”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2590 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9830^th place).

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8655 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #391 in September 2009
• Global: #2275 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4110 in September 2009
• Global: #3001 in April 2015

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) Citric acid		86.5245
2	Tamil (ta) சிட்ரிக் அமிலம்		79.4961
3	Korean (ko) 시트르산		66.68
4	Malay (ms) Asid sitrik		64.6607
5	German (de) Citronensäure		63.9304
6	Slovenian (sl) Citronska kislina		61.8003
7	Catalan (ca) Àcid cítric		60.8734
8	Indonesian (id) Asam sitrat		57.1125
9	Russian (ru) Лимонная кислота		55.9127
10	Spanish (es) Ácido cítrico		49.1491

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Citric acid		15 305 372
2	Japanese (ja) クエン酸		4 873 253
3	German (de) Citronensäure		4 536 583
4	Spanish (es) Ácido cítrico		3 929 334
5	Russian (ru) Лимонная кислота		2 337 991
6	French (fr) Acide citrique		2 284 618
7	Italian (it) Acido citrico		1 608 979
8	Chinese (zh) 檸檬酸		1 216 976
9	Polish (pl) Kwas cytrynowy		1 130 627
10	Portuguese (pt) Ácido cítrico		1 118 796

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) Citric acid		22 188
2	German (de) Citronensäure		9 089
3	Japanese (ja) クエン酸		8 998
4	Russian (ru) Лимонная кислота		4 546
5	French (fr) Acide citrique		3 967
6	Italian (it) Acido citrico		3 217
7	Chinese (zh) 檸檬酸		2 689
8	Spanish (es) Ácido cítrico		2 599
9	Polish (pl) Kwas cytrynowy		1 653
10	Dutch (nl) Citroenzuur		1 503

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Citric acid		693
2	German (de) Citronensäure		269
3	French (fr) Acide citrique		163
4	Spanish (es) Ácido cítrico		109
5	Italian (it) Acido citrico		104
6	Russian (ru) Лимонная кислота		100
7	Japanese (ja) クエン酸		88
8	Dutch (nl) Citroenzuur		87
9	Hungarian (hu) Citromsav		64
10	Polish (pl) Kwas cytrynowy		55

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) Citronensäure		2
2	Catalan (ca) Àcid cítric		1
3	Basque (eu) Azido zitriko		1
4	Japanese (ja) クエン酸		1
5	Kazakh (kk) Лимон қышқылы		1
6	Tamil (ta) சிட்ரிக் அமிலம்		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Acid citric		1
8	Arabic (ar) حمض الليمون		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Limon turşusu		0
10	Belarusian (be) Лімонная кіслата		0

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

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