Genetic engineering

Quality:

Genetic engineering - direct manipulation of an organism's genome using biotechnology. Article “Genetic engineering” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5550^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2872^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5940^th most popular in all topics.

The 4336^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Genetic engineering”, its content was written by 49 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2872^nd place) and edited by 3833 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4336^th place).

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14590 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #132 in September 2012
• Global: #454 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #587 in May 2012
• Global: #2021 in November 2008

There are 52 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) Genetic engineering		94.5601
2	Chinese (zh) 基因工程		93.4716
3	Ukrainian (uk) Генетична інженерія		92.123
4	Hungarian (hu) Génsebészet		88.5714
5	Thai (th) พันธุวิศวกรรม		85.5825
6	Korean (ko) 유전공학		84.762
7	Basque (eu) Ingeniaritza genetiko		83.2955
8	Dutch (nl) Genetische technologie		78.2377
9	Estonian (et) Geenitehnoloogia		70.8711
10	German (de) Gentechnik		67.0609

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Genetic engineering		13 941 193
2	Spanish (es) Ingeniería genética		6 756 195
3	German (de) Gentechnik		2 815 036
4	Russian (ru) Генетическая инженерия		2 060 363
5	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia genética		1 589 056
6	Arabic (ar) هندسة وراثية		1 223 765
7	Turkish (tr) Genetik mühendisliği		1 093 838
8	Indonesian (id) Rekayasa genetik		873 329
9	Thai (th) พันธุวิศวกรรม		832 940
10	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子工学		745 008

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) Genetic engineering		11 346
2	Russian (ru) Генетическая инженерия		2 621
3	German (de) Gentechnik		1 527
4	Spanish (es) Ingeniería genética		932
5	Japanese (ja) 遺伝子工学		898
6	Chinese (zh) 基因工程		868
7	French (fr) Génie génétique		653
8	Italian (it) Ingegneria genetica		422
9	Persian (fa) مهندسی ژنتیک		405
10	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia genética		378

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Genetic engineering		1 337
2	German (de) Gentechnik		455
3	Spanish (es) Ingeniería genética		213
4	Dutch (nl) Genetische technologie		207
5	Russian (ru) Генетическая инженерия		124
6	French (fr) Génie génétique		106
7	Hebrew (he) הנדסה גנטית		105
8	Italian (it) Ingegneria genetica		91
9	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia genética		86
10	Turkish (tr) Genetik mühendisliği		82

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) Genetic engineering		3
2	Arabic (ar) هندسة وراثية		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Génsebészet		2
4	Dutch (nl) Genetische technologie		2
5	Catalan (ca) Enginyeria genètica		1
6	German (de) Gentechnik		1
7	Indonesian (id) Rekayasa genetik		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Генетична інженерія		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Genetik mühəndisliyi		0
10	Belarusian (be) Генетычная інжынерыя		0

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

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