Lactone

Lactone - class of compounds; cyclic ester. Article “Lactone” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 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 “Lactone”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 532 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2949 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #14379 in September 2025
• Global: #14162 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #47036 in October 2025
• Global: #62825 in April 2009

There are 37 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) Lactone		63.9964
2	Indonesian (id) Lakton		53.7728
3	Czech (cs) Lakton		50.2201
4	Chinese (zh) 内酯		49.2599
5	Swedish (sv) Lakton		48.8609
6	German (de) Lactone		45.23
7	Galician (gl) Lactona		37.9203
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lakton		35.6815
9	Polish (pl) Laktony		35.0264
10	Serbian (sr) Lakton		29.0834

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lactone" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lactone		1 781 493
2	German (de) Lactone		630 292
3	Japanese (ja) ラクトン		614 211
4	Spanish (es) Lactona		291 147
5	Polish (pl) Laktony		211 329
6	French (fr) Lactone		201 043
7	Russian (ru) Лактон		196 492
8	Italian (it) Lattoni		193 457
9	Portuguese (pt) Lactona		116 709
10	Chinese (zh) 内酯		115 315

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lactone" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lactone		2 730
2	Japanese (ja) ラクトン		2 495
3	German (de) Lactone		868
4	Chinese (zh) 内酯		518
5	Russian (ru) Лактон		374
6	Italian (it) Lattoni		334
7	French (fr) Lactone		317
8	Polish (pl) Laktony		279
9	Spanish (es) Lactona		266
10	Czech (cs) Lakton		131

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

Language versions of the article "Lactone" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lactone		109
2	German (de) Lactone		70
3	French (fr) Lactone		55
4	Italian (it) Lattoni		37
5	Japanese (ja) ラクトン		24
6	Dutch (nl) Lacton		24
7	Russian (ru) Лактон		23
8	Polish (pl) Laktony		18
9	Hebrew (he) לקטון		15
10	Chinese (zh) 内酯		13

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

Language versions of the article "Lactone" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Lakton		1
2	English (en) Lactone		1
3	Basque (eu) Laktona		1
4	Finnish (fi) Laktonit		1
5	Arabic (ar) لاكتون		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Лактон		0
7	Catalan (ca) Lactona		0
8	German (de) Lactone		0
9	Greek (el) Λακτόνες		0
10	Spanish (es) Lactona		0

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

Language versions of the article "Lactone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Lattoni		645
2	English (en) Lactone		399
3	German (de) Lactone		293
4	French (fr) Lactone		189
5	Japanese (ja) ラクトン		157
6	Chinese (zh) 内酯		123
7	Romanian (ro) Lactonă		108
8	Spanish (es) Lactona		105
9	Russian (ru) Лактон		96
10	Czech (cs) Lakton		88

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لاكتون
bg	Bulgarian Лактон
ca	Catalan Lactona
cs	Czech Lakton
de	German Lactone
el	Greek Λακτόνες
en	English Lactone
es	Spanish Lactona
et	Estonian Laktoonid
eu	Basque Laktona
fa	Persian لاکتون
fi	Finnish Laktonit
fr	French Lactone
gl	Galician Lactona
he	Hebrew לקטון
hu	Hungarian Lakton
hy	Armenian Լակտոն
id	Indonesian Lakton
it	Italian Lattoni
ja	Japanese ラクトン
ka	Georgian ლაქტონები
ko	Korean 락톤
ms	Malay Lakton
nl	Dutch Lacton
no	Norwegian Lakton
pl	Polish Laktony
pt	Portuguese Lactona
ro	Romanian Lactonă
ru	Russian Лактон
sh	Serbo-Croatian Lakton
simple	Simple English Lactone
sl	Slovenian Lakton
sr	Serbian Lakton
sv	Swedish Lakton
uk	Ukrainian Лактони
uz	Uzbek Laktonlar
zh	Chinese 内酯

Best Rank

Simple English: #47036 10.2025

Global: #62825 04.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #14379 09.2025

Global: #14162 08.2003

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