Prion disease

Quality:

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - group of brain diseases induced by prion proteins. Article “Prion disease” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 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 2026 the article “Prion disease” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3013^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Prion disease”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 663 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 810 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #385 in July 2007
• Global: #6350 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #864 in July 2018
• Global: #18221 in June 2025

There are 26 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) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		85.7143
2	Slovenian (sl) Prionska bolezen		49.6991
3	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		38.3652
4	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		34.6197
5	Turkish (tr) Bulaşıcı süngerimsi ensefalopati		32.6155
6	Indonesian (id) Ensefalopati spongiform menular		30.531
7	Portuguese (pt) Doença priónica		28.7225
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bệnh Prion		27.9094
9	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		27.2117
10	Finnish (fi) Tarttuva sienimäinen aivosairaus		24.2416

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		3 785 154
2	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		773 392
3	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		494 522
4	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		352 523
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		203 524
6	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		175 684
7	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		172 843
8	Russian (ru) Трансмиссивные губчатые энцефалопатии		132 103
9	Czech (cs) Transmisivní spongiformní encefalopatie		61 513
10	French (fr) Encéphalopathie subaiguë spongiforme transmissible		53 380

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) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		30 906
2	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		2 416
3	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		1 862
4	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		1 614
5	Russian (ru) Трансмиссивные губчатые энцефалопатии		1 334
6	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		946
7	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		478
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		466
9	French (fr) Encéphalopathie subaiguë spongiforme transmissible		437
10	Italian (it) Encefalopatia spongiforme trasmissibile		297

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		261
2	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		75
3	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		40
4	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		35
5	Danish (da) TSE		32
6	Simple English (simple) Prion disease		24
7	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		24
8	Korean (ko) 전염성해면상뇌병증		22
9	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		22
10	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		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	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		8
2	Catalan (ca) Encefalopatia espongiforme transmissible		1
3	Persian (fa) انسفالوپاتی اسفنجی‌شکل		1
4	Finnish (fi) Tarttuva sienimäinen aivosairaus		1
5	Russian (ru) Трансмиссивные губчатые энцефалопатии		1
6	Simple English (simple) Prion disease		1
7	Turkish (tr) Bulaşıcı süngerimsi ensefalopati		1
8	Arabic (ar) اعتلال دماغي إسفنجي قابل للانتقال		0
9	Belarusian (be) Прыёнавыя хваробы		0
10	Czech (cs) Transmisivní spongiformní encefalopatie		0

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

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