Disinfectant

Quality:

Disinfectant - antimicrobial agent that is applied to non-living objects (compare: antisepsis) to reduce the number of microorganisms (unwanted germs and parasites) on them (compare:sterilization). Article “Disinfectant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Disinfectant”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 818 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #588 in May 2020
• Global: #5098 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12359 in March 2020
• Global: #5302 in April 2020

There are 32 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) Disinfectant		91.0759
2	Greek (el) Απολυμαντικό		66.9955
3	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		50.302
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Dezinfekcija		37.4696
5	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		37.1283
6	Persian (fa) گندزدا		34.1318
7	Hungarian (hu) Fertőtlenítőszerek		27.3788
8	Serbian (sr) Дезинфекција		27.0004
9	Malay (ms) Disinfektan		26.3376
10	Chinese (zh) 消毒		26.2903

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Disinfectant		5 135 297
2	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		986 730
3	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		651 624
4	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		380 280
5	Chinese (zh) 消毒		194 620
6	Uzbek (uz) Dezinfeksiya		189 306
7	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		168 776
8	Persian (fa) گندزدا		140 931
9	Dutch (nl) Ontsmettingsmiddel		132 408
10	Romanian (ro) Dezinfectare		108 468

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) Disinfectant		4 003
2	Chinese (zh) 消毒		391
3	Uzbek (uz) Dezinfeksiya		336
4	Persian (fa) گندزدا		266
5	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		232
6	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		215
7	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		146
8	Serbian (sr) Дезинфекција		101
9	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		100
10	Hebrew (he) חיטוי		95

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Disinfectant		380
2	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		53
3	Dutch (nl) Ontsmettingsmiddel		36
4	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		30
5	Finnish (fi) Desinfiointi		29
6	Hebrew (he) חיטוי		28
7	Persian (fa) گندزدا		27
8	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		24
9	Chinese (zh) 消毒		23
10	Hindi (hi) निस्संक्रामक		19

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	Catalan (ca) Desinfectant		1
2	Arabic (ar) مطهر		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Дезинфекция		0
4	Greek (el) Απολυμαντικό		0
5	English (en) Disinfectant		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Seninfektigo		0
7	Basque (eu) Desinfektatzaile		0
8	Persian (fa) گندزدا		0
9	Finnish (fi) Desinfiointi		0
10	Galician (gl) Desinfectante		0

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

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