Hershey–Chase experiment

Quality:

Hershey–Chase experiment - experiment. Article “Hershey–Chase experiment” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.39 points.

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 “Hershey–Chase experiment”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 606 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 606 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #190 in November 2016
• Global: #416 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #289 in February 2016
• Global: #46260 in February 2016

There are 33 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, 2025 (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) Hershey–Chase experiment		41.712
2	Latin (la) Experimentum Hershey-Chase		36.4458
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thí nghiệm Hershey–Chase		27.94
4	Chinese (zh) 赫雪-蔡司實驗		27.0636
5	Tamil (ta) எர்சே - சேசு பரிசோதனை		25.6995
6	Arabic (ar) تجارب هرشي وتشيس		15.1742
7	Finnish (fi) Hersheyn-Chasen-koe		13.4345
8	Italian (it) Esperimento di Hershey-Chase		10.9377
9	Portuguese (pt) Experiência de Hershey–Chase		10.6307
10	French (fr) Expériences de Hershey et Chase		10.2148

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hershey–Chase experiment		2 675 597
2	Spanish (es) Experimento de Hershey y Chase		533 109
3	Japanese (ja) ハーシーとチェイスの実験		365 016
4	Italian (it) Esperimento di Hershey-Chase		226 074
5	German (de) Hershey-Chase-Experiment		211 276
6	Simple English (simple) Hershey–Chase experiment		151 715
7	Chinese (zh) 赫雪-蔡司實驗		80 754
8	French (fr) Expériences de Hershey et Chase		69 507
9	Korean (ko) 허시-체이스 실험		68 012
10	Portuguese (pt) Experiência de Hershey–Chase		61 303

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) Hershey–Chase experiment		3 637
2	Japanese (ja) ハーシーとチェイスの実験		1 888
3	Korean (ko) 허시-체이스 실험		532
4	Italian (it) Esperimento di Hershey-Chase		441
5	Simple English (simple) Hershey–Chase experiment		334
6	Chinese (zh) 赫雪-蔡司實驗		316
7	Spanish (es) Experimento de Hershey y Chase		294
8	Hungarian (hu) Hershey–Chase-kísérlet		233
9	German (de) Hershey-Chase-Experiment		148
10	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Херши — Чейз		136

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hershey–Chase experiment		200
2	Italian (it) Esperimento di Hershey-Chase		49
3	German (de) Hershey-Chase-Experiment		46
4	Greek (el) Πείραμα των Χέρσεϊ και Τσέις		28
5	Spanish (es) Experimento de Hershey y Chase		25
6	Japanese (ja) ハーシーとチェイスの実験		23
7	Dutch (nl) Experiment van Hershey en Chase		19
8	Simple English (simple) Hershey–Chase experiment		18
9	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Херши — Чейз		17
10	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Hersheya-Chase		16

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	Latin (la) Experimentum Hershey-Chase		1
2	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Херши — Чейз		1
3	Arabic (ar) تجارب هرشي وتشيس		0
4	Catalan (ca) Experiment de Hershey i Chase		0
5	Czech (cs) Hersheyho–Chaseové experiment		0
6	German (de) Hershey-Chase-Experiment		0
7	Greek (el) Πείραμα των Χέρσεϊ και Τσέις		0
8	English (en) Hershey–Chase experiment		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Eksperimento de Hershey kaj Chase		0
10	Spanish (es) Experimento de Hershey y Chase		0

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

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