SARS-CoV-2

Quality:

SARS-CoV-2 - virus that causes COVID-19. This taxon is the 74^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 146^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article "SARS-CoV-2" in English Wikipedia has 81.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 237 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9409^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 146^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4119^th most popular in all topics.

The 2897^th most popular in AI.

The 74^th most popular in taxon.

In July 2024 the article "SARS-CoV-2" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "SARS-CoV-2", its content was written by 778 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4400 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2897^th place).

SARS-CoV-2 is on the 146^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 74^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3906 times in English Wikipedia (6231^st place) and cited 25405 times in all languages (6216^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6 in January 2020
• Global: #2 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20 in March 2020
• Global: #5 in February 2020

There are 53 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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) SARS-CoV-2		100
2	Thai (th) ไวรัสโคโรนาสายพันธุ์ใหม่ (SARS-CoV-2)		97.9063
3	Polish (pl) SARS-CoV-2		97.5755
4	Czech (cs) SARS-CoV-2		95.6967
5	Greek (el) SARS-CoV-2		91.7423
6	French (fr) SARS-CoV-2		89.5547
7	Hebrew (he) SARS-CoV-2		88.081
8	Korean (ko) SARS-CoV-2		87.7622
9	Simple English (simple) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2		87.2244
10	Spanish (es) SARS-CoV-2		87.0716

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SARS-CoV-2		13 613 299
2	Spanish (es) SARS-CoV-2		4 561 092
3	German (de) SARS-CoV-2		4 501 328
4	Japanese (ja) SARSコロナウイルス2		3 609 946
5	Russian (ru) SARS-CoV-2		2 915 456
6	Chinese (zh) 嚴重急性呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒2型		1 861 735
7	Italian (it) SARS-CoV-2		1 669 275
8	Polish (pl) SARS-CoV-2		1 438 504
9	French (fr) SARS-CoV-2		1 253 233
10	Persian (fa) کروناویروس سندرم حاد تنفسی ۲		805 436

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) SARS-CoV-2		37 266
2	German (de) SARS-CoV-2		6 961
3	Spanish (es) SARS-CoV-2		6 111
4	Japanese (ja) SARSコロナウイルス2		6 072
5	Russian (ru) SARS-CoV-2		5 997
6	Chinese (zh) 嚴重急性呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒2型		4 104
7	French (fr) SARS-CoV-2		3 198
8	Italian (it) SARS-CoV-2		2 802
9	Polish (pl) SARS-CoV-2		2 327
10	Persian (fa) کروناویروس سندرم حاد تنفسی ۲		1 560

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SARS-CoV-2		778
2	German (de) SARS-CoV-2		571
3	Chinese (zh) 嚴重急性呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒2型		322
4	French (fr) SARS-CoV-2		267
5	Japanese (ja) SARSコロナウイルス2		248
6	Spanish (es) SARS-CoV-2		217
7	Italian (it) SARS-CoV-2		195
8	Russian (ru) SARS-CoV-2		181
9	Polish (pl) SARS-CoV-2		127
10	Hebrew (he) SARS-CoV-2		110

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	German (de) SARS-CoV-2		4
2	English (en) SARS-CoV-2		2
3	Polish (pl) SARS-CoV-2		2
4	Chinese (zh) 嚴重急性呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒2型		2
5	Danish (da) SARS-CoV-2		1
6	Finnish (fi) SARS-CoV-2		1
7	Italian (it) SARS-CoV-2		1
8	Japanese (ja) SARSコロナウイルス2		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Coronavírus da síndrome respiratória aguda grave 2		1
10	Slovak (sk) SARS-CoV-2		1

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

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