Linus Pauling

Quality:

Linus Pauling - American scientist (1901–1994). This person is the 6195^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Linus Pauling” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 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 9388^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5683^rd most popular in AI.

The 6195^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5874^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Linus Pauling” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5874^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Linus Pauling”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9388^th place) and edited by 3335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5683^rd place).

Linus Pauling is on the 6195^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 257 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19548 times in all languages (8506^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #174 in July 2009
• Global: #8 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1907 in March 2009
• Global: #4141 in May 2014

There are 54 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) Linus Pauling		98.1051
2	Polish (pl) Linus Pauling		97.4468
3	Hebrew (he) לינוס פאולינג		84.2308
4	Azerbaijani (az) Laynus Polinq		80.7396
5	Japanese (ja) ライナス・ポーリング		73.426
6	Portuguese (pt) Linus Pauling		62.8614
7	Turkish (tr) Linus Pauling		62.5748
8	Spanish (es) Linus Pauling		57.8206
9	Armenian (hy) Լայնուս Փոլինգ		57.42
10	French (fr) Linus Pauling		53.3744

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linus Pauling		6 456 144
2	Spanish (es) Linus Pauling		2 569 330
3	German (de) Linus Pauling		1 016 434
4	Portuguese (pt) Linus Pauling		803 060
5	Russian (ru) Полинг, Лайнус		599 533
6	French (fr) Linus Pauling		547 227
7	Japanese (ja) ライナス・ポーリング		502 266
8	Italian (it) Linus Pauling		455 244
9	Polish (pl) Linus Pauling		313 622
10	Chinese (zh) 萊納斯·鮑林		261 966

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) Linus Pauling		27 418
2	Spanish (es) Linus Pauling		3 397
3	German (de) Linus Pauling		2 887
4	Japanese (ja) ライナス・ポーリング		2 217
5	Russian (ru) Полинг, Лайнус		2 113
6	Portuguese (pt) Linus Pauling		1 480
7	Chinese (zh) 萊納斯·鮑林		1 184
8	Italian (it) Linus Pauling		961
9	French (fr) Linus Pauling		927
10	Korean (ko) 라이너스 폴링		662

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linus Pauling		885
2	German (de) Linus Pauling		255
3	French (fr) Linus Pauling		233
4	Spanish (es) Linus Pauling		161
5	Italian (it) Linus Pauling		135
6	Russian (ru) Полинг, Лайнус		123
7	Portuguese (pt) Linus Pauling		108
8	Dutch (nl) Linus Pauling		103
9	Hebrew (he) לינוס פאולינג		95
10	Japanese (ja) ライナス・ポーリング		85

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) Linus Pauling		7
2	Catalan (ca) Linus Carl Pauling		1
3	Czech (cs) Linus Pauling		1
4	German (de) Linus Pauling		1
5	Basque (eu) Linus Pauling		1
6	Polish (pl) Linus Pauling		1
7	Simple English (simple) Linus Pauling		1
8	Slovak (sk) Linus Carl Pauling		1
9	Turkish (tr) Linus Pauling		1
10	Arabic (ar) لينوس باولنغ		0

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

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