Michael Smith (chemist)

Michael Smith - Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry. Article “Michael Smith (chemist)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Michael Smith (chemist)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (8048^th place) and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Michael Smith (chemist)”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 635 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 136 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6369 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2488 in August 2021
• Global: #5191 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #27922 in January 2015
• Global: #251733 in April 2008

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, 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) Michael Smith (chemist)		53.444
2	Hebrew (he) מייקל סמית'		36.9624
3	Malay (ms) Michael Smith		36.6394
4	Hungarian (hu) Michael Smith (kémikus)		29.853
5	Arabic (ar) مايكل سميث		29.4768
6	Azerbaijani (az) Maykl Smit		27.2237
7	Latin (la) Michael Smith (chemicus)		27.078
8	Simple English (simple) Michael Smith (chemist)		26.5879
9	Swedish (sv) Michael Smith		26.44
10	Russian (ru) Смит, Майкл (биохимик)		25.9622

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Michael Smith (chemist)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Smith (chemist)		321 448
2	Polish (pl) Michael Smith (chemik)		59 615
3	French (fr) Michael Smith		45 334
4	Spanish (es) Michael Smith (químico)		36 073
5	German (de) Michael Smith (Chemiker)		28 396
6	Portuguese (pt) Michael Smith		24 077
7	Italian (it) Michael Smith (chimico)		18 021
8	Arabic (ar) مايكل سميث		17 405
9	Russian (ru) Смит, Майкл (биохимик)		13 694
10	Japanese (ja) マイケル・スミス (化学者)		13 675

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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 "Michael Smith (chemist)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Smith (chemist)		1 141
2	Turkish (tr) Michael Smith (kimyager)		130
3	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·史密斯 (化学家)		89
4	Russian (ru) Смит, Майкл (биохимик)		78
5	Simple English (simple) Michael Smith (chemist)		75
6	Spanish (es) Michael Smith (químico)		74
7	French (fr) Michael Smith		56
8	Portuguese (pt) Michael Smith		56
9	German (de) Michael Smith (Chemiker)		52
10	Italian (it) Michael Smith (chimico)		42

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Smith (chemist)		101
2	French (fr) Michael Smith		60
3	German (de) Michael Smith (Chemiker)		48
4	Italian (it) Michael Smith (chimico)		37
5	Russian (ru) Смит, Майкл (биохимик)		32
6	Dutch (nl) Michael Smith (scheikundige)		26
7	Hebrew (he) מייקל סמית'		20
8	Norwegian (no) Michael Smith (kjemiker)		20
9	Galician (gl) Michael Smith		19
10	Spanish (es) Michael Smith (químico)		18

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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 "Michael Smith (chemist)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Simple English (simple) Michael Smith (chemist)		1
2	Turkish (tr) Michael Smith (kimyager)		1
3	Urdu (ur) مائیکل سمتھ (کیمیا دان)		1
4	Arabic (ar) مايكل سميث		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Maykl Smit		0
6	Belarusian (be) Майкл Сміт		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Майкъл Смит (химик)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Michael Smith		0
9	Czech (cs) Michael Smith (chemik)		0
10	Danish (da) Michael Smith (kemiker)		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 "Michael Smith (chemist)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Michael Smith (chemist)		443
2	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·史密斯 (化学家)		400
3	Arabic (ar) مايكل سميث		317
4	French (fr) Michael Smith		263
5	Urdu (ur) مائیکل سمتھ (کیمیا دان)		229
6	German (de) Michael Smith (Chemiker)		214
7	Korean (ko) 마이클 스미스 (화학자)		209
8	Persian (fa) مایکل اسمیت		207
9	Italian (it) Michael Smith (chimico)		207
10	Swedish (sv) Michael Smith		207

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مايكل سميث
az	Azerbaijani Maykl Smit
be	Belarusian Майкл Сміт
bg	Bulgarian Майкъл Смит (химик)
ca	Catalan Michael Smith
cs	Czech Michael Smith (chemik)
da	Danish Michael Smith (kemiker)
de	German Michael Smith (Chemiker)
en	English Michael Smith (chemist)
es	Spanish Michael Smith (químico)
eu	Basque Michael Smith (kimikaria)
fa	Persian مایکل اسمیت
fi	Finnish Michael Smith
fr	French Michael Smith
gl	Galician Michael Smith
he	Hebrew מייקל סמית'
hu	Hungarian Michael Smith (kémikus)
id	Indonesian Michael Smith (kimiawan)
it	Italian Michael Smith (chimico)
ja	Japanese マイケル・スミス (化学者)
ko	Korean 마이클 스미스 (화학자)
la	Latin Michael Smith (chemicus)
ms	Malay Michael Smith
nl	Dutch Michael Smith (scheikundige)
no	Norwegian Michael Smith (kjemiker)
pl	Polish Michael Smith (chemik)
pt	Portuguese Michael Smith
ro	Romanian Michael Smith
ru	Russian Смит, Майкл (биохимик)
simple	Simple English Michael Smith (chemist)
sk	Slovak Michael Smith (chemik)
sv	Swedish Michael Smith
tr	Turkish Michael Smith (kimyager)
uk	Ukrainian Майкл Сміт
ur	Urdu مائیکل سمتھ (کیمیا دان)
vi	Vietnamese Michael Smith
zh	Chinese 迈克尔·史密斯 (化学家)

Best Rank

Simple English: #27922 01.2015

Global: #251733 04.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #2488 08.2021

Global: #5191 09.2011

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