Gram staining

Quality:

Gram staining - microbiological method for identification; method of staining used to differentiate bacterial species into two large groups (gram-positive and gram-negative). Article “Gram staining” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 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 9858^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Gram staining”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1538 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5190 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2218 in March 2015
• Global: #372 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9593 in October 2017
• Global: #3234 in September 2019

There are 44 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) Gram stain		71.9823
2	French (fr) Coloration de Gram		68.3835
3	Malay (ms) Pewarnaan Gram		52.4434
4	Korean (ko) 그람 염색		51.0666
5	Chinese (zh) 革蘭氏染色		39.3475
6	Dutch (nl) Gramkleuring		31.7764
7	German (de) Gram-Färbung		29.1393
8	Swedish (sv) Gramfärgning		27.4582
9	Polish (pl) Barwienie metodą Grama		26.3781
10	Croatian (hr) Metoda bojanja po Gramu		23.0663

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gram stain		8 371 814
2	Spanish (es) Tinción de Gram		5 333 528
3	German (de) Gram-Färbung		2 545 132
4	Portuguese (pt) Técnica de Gram		1 762 314
5	Japanese (ja) グラム染色		1 714 464
6	French (fr) Coloration de Gram		1 130 912
7	Russian (ru) Метод Грама		989 895
8	Italian (it) Colorazione di Gram		948 985
9	Dutch (nl) Gramkleuring		768 331
10	Chinese (zh) 革蘭氏染色		638 881

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) Gram stain		5 654
2	German (de) Gram-Färbung		3 135
3	French (fr) Coloration de Gram		1 357
4	Japanese (ja) グラム染色		1 252
5	Spanish (es) Tinción de Gram		1 213
6	Russian (ru) Метод Грама		1 069
7	Chinese (zh) 革蘭氏染色		923
8	Polish (pl) Barwienie metodą Grama		793
9	Dutch (nl) Gramkleuring		672
10	Ukrainian (uk) Фарбування за Грамом		630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gram stain		324
2	German (de) Gram-Färbung		158
3	Spanish (es) Tinción de Gram		104
4	Dutch (nl) Gramkleuring		97
5	Italian (it) Colorazione di Gram		87
6	French (fr) Coloration de Gram		77
7	Russian (ru) Метод Грама		51
8	Portuguese (pt) Técnica de Gram		47
9	Persian (fa) رنگ‌آمیزی گرم		43
10	Japanese (ja) グラム染色		42

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	Arabic (ar) صبغة غرام		1
2	Basque (eu) Gram tindaketa		1
3	Japanese (ja) グラム染色		1
4	Korean (ko) 그람 염색		1
5	Dutch (nl) Gramkleuring		1
6	Catalan (ca) Tinció de Gram		0
7	Czech (cs) Gramovo barvení		0
8	Danish (da) Gramfarvning		0
9	German (de) Gram-Färbung		0
10	Greek (el) Χρώση κατά Γκραμ		0

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

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