Rubbing alcohol

Rubbing alcohol - alcohol used for germ protection. Article “Rubbing alcohol” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 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 “Rubbing alcohol”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 527 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11108 in November 2021
• Global: #6543 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16668 in November 2024
• Global: #2812 in March 2020

There are 9 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) Rubbing alcohol		30.5045
2	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		29.886
3	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		26.9057
4	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		26.5012
5	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		26.0963
6	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		23.5319
7	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		21.9176
8	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		12.8389
9	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		2.4195

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rubbing alcohol		5 961 669
2	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		913 264
3	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		634 372
4	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		159 842
5	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		15 147
6	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		13 662
7	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		7 061
8	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		3 945
9	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		2 391

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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 "Rubbing alcohol" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rubbing alcohol		9 876
2	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		669
3	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		661
4	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		606
5	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		226
6	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		83
7	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		79
8	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		49
9	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		20

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rubbing alcohol		257
2	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		36
3	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		32
4	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		21
5	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		8
6	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		4
7	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		3
8	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		3
9	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		1

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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 "Rubbing alcohol" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rubbing alcohol		1
2	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		0
3	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		0
4	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		0
5	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		0
6	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		0
8	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		0
9	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		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 "Rubbing alcohol" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 消毒用アルコール		461
2	English (en) Rubbing alcohol		51
3	Simple English (simple) Rubbing alcohol		4
4	Arabic (ar) كحول الفرك		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Álcool 70		3
6	Persian (fa) الکل مالشی		2
7	Hungarian (hu) Sósborszesz		2
8	Slovenian (sl) Alkoholna raztopina		1
9	German (de) Reinigungsalkohol		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كحول الفرك
de	German Reinigungsalkohol
en	English Rubbing alcohol
fa	Persian الکل مالشی
hu	Hungarian Sósborszesz
ja	Japanese 消毒用アルコール
pt	Portuguese Álcool 70
simple	Simple English Rubbing alcohol
sl	Slovenian Alkoholna raztopina

Best Rank

Simple English: #16668 11.2024

Global: #2812 03.2020

Best Rank

Simple English: #11108 11.2021

Global: #6543 07.2003

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