Virus

Quality:

Virus - non-cellular, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. This taxon is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 3^rd most popular taxon in Vietnamese Wikipedia. Article “Virus” in Vietnamese Wikipedia has 99.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 272 references and 39 sections.

This article has the best quality in Polish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Vietnamese Wikipedia:

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The 648^th most popular in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

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The 592^nd most editable in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in taxon in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 514^th most popular in all topics.

The 721^st most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Vietnamese Wikipedia:

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The 6345^th most popular in Vietnamese Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5657^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Virus”, its content was written by 135 registered users of Vietnamese Wikipedia (592^nd place) and edited by 7119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (721^st place).

Virus is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of taxon in Vietnamese Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 614 times in Vietnamese Wikipedia and cited 37548 times in all languages (4354^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Vietnamese): #32 in March 2024
• Global: #8 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Vietnamese): #19 in February 2020
• Global: #12 in March 2020

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	Polish (pl) Wirusy		100
2	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		100
3	Arabic (ar) فيروس		100
4	Indonesian (id) Virus		100
5	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		100
6	Armenian (hy) Վիրուսներ		100
7	Catalan (ca) Virus		100
8	Vietnamese (vi) Virus		99.5491
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		99.476
10	Russian (ru) Вирусы		98.4362

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virus		31 705 672
2	Spanish (es) Virus		22 800 454
3	Russian (ru) Вирусы		8 828 570
4	German (de) Viren		6 616 113
5	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		5 889 163
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 214 661
7	Indonesian (id) Virus		4 708 211
8	French (fr) Virus		4 605 697
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 874 692
10	Polish (pl) Wirusy		3 143 047

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) Virus		68 798
2	Russian (ru) Вирусы		15 619
3	Spanish (es) Virus		15 023
4	Chinese (zh) 病毒		6 117
5	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 996
6	German (de) Viren		5 187
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		4 078
8	French (fr) Virus		3 673
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 552
10	Simple English (simple) Virus		3 301

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virus		1 303
2	German (de) Viren		564
3	French (fr) Virus		423
4	Spanish (es) Virus		391
5	Russian (ru) Вирусы		334
6	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		282
7	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		236
8	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		234
9	Hebrew (he) נגיף		206
10	Chinese (zh) 病毒		193

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	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		4
2	English (en) Virus		2
3	Catalan (ca) Virus		1
4	Persian (fa) ویروس		1
5	French (fr) Virus		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		1
7	Russian (ru) Вирусы		1
8	Slovak (sk) Vírus		1
9	Arabic (ar) فيروس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Viruslar		0

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

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