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Taphonomy

Quality:

Taphonomy - the study of decomposition and fossilization of biological material. Article “Taphonomy” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 76 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.49 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Taphonomy” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Taphonomy”, its content was written by 149 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 659 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 677 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2562 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #19930 in February 2003
  • Global: #28208 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #130122 in October 2013
  • Global: #96640 in February 2015

There are 30 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Taphonomy
76.3958
2Chinese (zh)
埋藏学
74.0231
3Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
37.0227
4Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
36.8958
5Catalan (ca)
Tafonomia
36.2998
6German (de)
Fossilisation
33.1812
7Czech (cs)
Tafonomie
27.849
8Hebrew (he)
טפונומיה
27.2979
9French (fr)
Taphonomie
26.4732
10Russian (ru)
Тафономия
24.7653
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Taphonomy" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Taphonomy
829 794
2German (de)
Fossilisation
463 410
3Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
332 670
4Russian (ru)
Тафономия
157 015
5French (fr)
Taphonomie
120 016
6Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
77 312
7Italian (it)
Tafonomia
72 229
8Polish (pl)
Tafonomia
46 348
9Swedish (sv)
Tafonomi
23 482
10Dutch (nl)
Tafonomie
22 379
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Taphonomy" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Taphonomy
3 857
2German (de)
Fossilisation
954
3Russian (ru)
Тафономия
467
4Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
417
5French (fr)
Taphonomie
314
6Chinese (zh)
埋藏学
257
7Italian (it)
Tafonomia
212
8Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
187
9Polish (pl)
Tafonomia
118
10Swedish (sv)
Tafonomi
116
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Taphonomy" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Fossilisation
165
2English (en)
Taphonomy
149
3French (fr)
Taphonomie
48
4Italian (it)
Tafonomia
40
5Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
31
6Russian (ru)
Тафономия
24
7Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
23
8Dutch (nl)
Tafonomie
20
9Hungarian (hu)
Tafonómia
19
10Turkish (tr)
Tafonomi
14
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Taphonomy" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Taphonomy
2
2Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
2
3Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
2
4German (de)
Fossilisation
1
5Indonesian (id)
Tafonomi
1
6Arabic (ar)
علم التاريخ الحفري
0
7Belarusian (be)
Тафаномія
0
8Catalan (ca)
Tafonomia
0
9Czech (cs)
Tafonomie
0
10Greek (el)
Ταφονομία
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Taphonomy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Taphonomy
677
2German (de)
Fossilisation
266
3French (fr)
Taphonomie
225
4Portuguese (pt)
Tafonomia
179
5Spanish (es)
Tafonomía
154
6Persian (fa)
سنگواره‌شناسی
143
7Chinese (zh)
埋藏学
118
8Turkish (tr)
Tafonomi
110
9Vietnamese (vi)
Mồ học
103
10Arabic (ar)
علم التاريخ الحفري
100
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
علم التاريخ الحفري
beBelarusian
Тафаномія
caCatalan
Tafonomia
csCzech
Tafonomie
deGerman
Fossilisation
elGreek
Ταφονομία
enEnglish
Taphonomy
esSpanish
Tafonomía
euBasque
Tafonomia
faPersian
سنگواره‌شناسی
frFrench
Taphonomie
heHebrew
טפונומיה
hrCroatian
Tafonomija
huHungarian
Tafonómia
idIndonesian
Tafonomi
itItalian
Tafonomia
kkKazakh
Тафономия
ltLithuanian
Tafonomija
nlDutch
Tafonomie
noNorwegian
Tafonomi
plPolish
Tafonomia
ptPortuguese
Tafonomia
ruRussian
Тафономия
shSerbo-Croatian
Tafonomija
skSlovak
Tafonómia
svSwedish
Tafonomi
trTurkish
Tafonomi
ukUkrainian
Тафономія
viVietnamese
Mồ học
zhChinese
埋藏学

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#130122
10.2013
Global:
#96640
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19930
02.2003
Global:
#28208
02.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Taphonomy from Wikipedia articles about Ivan Yefremov, Fossil, Kelda Stagg, Wikipedia article and Forensic anthropology. Whereas reading the article about Taphonomy people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Fossil, Ivan Yefremov, La Brea Tar Pits, Diagenesis and Lagerstätte.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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