Hamilton O. Smith

Quality:

Hamilton Smith - American microbiologist (1931–2025). Article “Hamilton O. Smith” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 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.

Since the creation of article “Hamilton O. Smith”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 609 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 217 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7610 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #758 in October 2025
• Global: #1056 in October 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7288 in March 2014
• Global: #154592 in October 2025

There are 39 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) Hamilton O. Smith		38.2041
2	Swedish (sv) Hamilton O. Smith		36.6287
3	Malay (ms) Hamilton O. Smith		33.8242
4	Turkish (tr) Hamilton O. Smith		33.5632
5	Czech (cs) Hamilton O. Smith		29.918
6	Simple English (simple) Hamilton O. Smith		28.1166
7	Armenian (hy) Համիլթոն Սմիթ		27.7316
8	Dutch (nl) Hamilton Othanel Smith		27.2044
9	Belarusian (be) Гамільтан Сміт		26.5408
10	Norwegian (no) Hamilton O. Smith		26.285

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hamilton O. Smith		240 969
2	Spanish (es) Hamilton O. Smith		59 293
3	Polish (pl) Hamilton Othanel Smith		49 136
4	Russian (ru) Смит, Хамилтон		31 265
5	German (de) Hamilton Othanel Smith		30 447
6	Arabic (ar) هاملتون سميث		23 009
7	Japanese (ja) ハミルトン・スミス		22 910
8	Chinese (zh) 漢彌爾頓·史密斯		22 638
9	Italian (it) Hamilton Smith		21 441
10	French (fr) Hamilton Smith		20 449

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) Hamilton O. Smith		345
2	Chinese (zh) 漢彌爾頓·史密斯		93
3	Japanese (ja) ハミルトン・スミス		64
4	German (de) Hamilton Othanel Smith		53
5	Spanish (es) Hamilton O. Smith		45
6	Russian (ru) Смит, Хамилтон		31
7	French (fr) Hamilton Smith		29
8	Catalan (ca) Hamilton Othanel Smith		28
9	Simple English (simple) Hamilton O. Smith		28
10	Swedish (sv) Hamilton O. Smith		24

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hamilton O. Smith		93
2	German (de) Hamilton Othanel Smith		52
3	Italian (it) Hamilton Smith		40
4	French (fr) Hamilton Smith		37
5	Spanish (es) Hamilton O. Smith		30
6	Russian (ru) Смит, Хамилтон		29
7	Dutch (nl) Hamilton Othanel Smith		23
8	Catalan (ca) Hamilton Othanel Smith		19
9	Portuguese (pt) Hamilton Smith		18
10	Croatian (hr) Hamilton O. Smith		17

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) هاملتون سميث		1
2	English (en) Hamilton O. Smith		1
3	French (fr) Hamilton Smith		1
4	Malay (ms) Hamilton O. Smith		1
5	Belarusian (be) Гамільтан Сміт		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Хамилтън Смит		0
7	Catalan (ca) Hamilton Othanel Smith		0
8	Czech (cs) Hamilton O. Smith		0
9	German (de) Hamilton Othanel Smith		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Hamilton O. Smith		0

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

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