Basic reproduction number

Quality:

Basic reproduction number - metric in epidemiology showing average measure of a pathogen’s infectiousness. Article "Basic reproduction number" in English Wikipedia has 67.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Basic reproduction number", its content was written by 233 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 299 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1377 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #410 in March 2020
• Global: #528 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #675 in March 2020
• Global: #1448 in March 2020

There are 34 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) Basic reproduction number		67.0785
2	German (de) Basisreproduktionszahl		59.0547
3	Italian (it) Numero di riproduzione di base		50.3175
4	Greek (el) Βασικός αναπαραγωγικός αριθμός		46.1692
5	Catalan (ca) Nombre reproductiu bàsic		43.7125
6	Russian (ru) Индекс репродукции		38.695
7	Basque (eu) Oinarrizko birsorkuntza tasa		37.1816
8	Japanese (ja) 基本再生産数		36.8507
9	Turkish (tr) Temel çoğalma sayısı		36.4272
10	Slovak (sk) Základné reprodukčné číslo		36.4018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basic reproduction number		2 795 893
2	German (de) Basisreproduktionszahl		462 618
3	Japanese (ja) 基本再生産数		244 554
4	Chinese (zh) 基本传染数		234 194
5	Spanish (es) Ritmo reproductivo básico		199 584
6	Dutch (nl) Reproductiegetal		117 719
7	Italian (it) Numero di riproduzione di base		113 838
8	Korean (ko) 기초감염재생산수		81 469
9	French (fr) Nombre de reproduction de base		74 525
10	Russian (ru) Индекс репродукции		46 531

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) Basic reproduction number		5 366
2	Simple English (simple) Basic reproduction number		1 139
3	Japanese (ja) 基本再生産数		645
4	Korean (ko) 기초감염재생산수		521
5	French (fr) Nombre de reproduction de base		443
6	Chinese (zh) 基本传染数		317
7	German (de) Basisreproduktionszahl		310
8	Italian (it) Numero di riproduzione di base		288
9	Russian (ru) Индекс репродукции		178
10	Dutch (nl) Reproductiegetal		171

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basic reproduction number		233
2	German (de) Basisreproduktionszahl		74
3	French (fr) Nombre de reproduction de base		33
4	Dutch (nl) Reproductiegetal		27
5	Japanese (ja) 基本再生産数		24
6	Chinese (zh) 基本传染数		24
7	Italian (it) Numero di riproduzione di base		22
8	Hebrew (he) מספר ההתרבות הבסיסי		17
9	Spanish (es) Ritmo reproductivo básico		16
10	Czech (cs) Reprodukční číslo		11

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	Russian (ru) Индекс репродукции		1
2	Arabic (ar) عدد التكاثر الأساسي		0
3	Catalan (ca) Nombre reproductiu bàsic		0
4	Czech (cs) Reprodukční číslo		0
5	Danish (da) Det basale reproduktionstal		0
6	German (de) Basisreproduktionszahl		0
7	Greek (el) Βασικός αναπαραγωγικός αριθμός		0
8	English (en) Basic reproduction number		0
9	Spanish (es) Ritmo reproductivo básico		0
10	Basque (eu) Oinarrizko birsorkuntza tasa		0

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

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