Tafonomía

Taphonomy - the study of decomposition and fossilization of biological material. Article “Tafonomía” in Spanish Wikipedia has 37 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 11 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Tafonomía”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 659 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 154 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 2562 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #10487 in October 2022
• Global: #28208 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #54364 in November 2011
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Taphonomy		76.3958
2	Chinese (zh) 埋藏学		74.0231
3	Spanish (es) Tafonomía		37.0227
4	Portuguese (pt) Tafonomia		36.8958
5	Catalan (ca) Tafonomia		36.2998
6	German (de) Fossilisation		33.1812
7	Czech (cs) Tafonomie		27.849
8	Hebrew (he) טפונומיה		27.2979
9	French (fr) Taphonomie		26.4732
10	Russian (ru) Тафономия		24.7653

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Taphonomy		829 794
2	German (de) Fossilisation		463 410
3	Spanish (es) Tafonomía		332 670
4	Russian (ru) Тафономия		157 015
5	French (fr) Taphonomie		120 016
6	Portuguese (pt) Tafonomia		77 312
7	Italian (it) Tafonomia		72 229
8	Polish (pl) Tafonomia		46 348
9	Swedish (sv) Tafonomi		23 482
10	Dutch (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.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tafonomía" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Taphonomy		3 857
2	German (de) Fossilisation		954
3	Russian (ru) Тафономия		467
4	Spanish (es) Tafonomía		417
5	French (fr) Taphonomie		314
6	Chinese (zh) 埋藏学		257
7	Italian (it) Tafonomia		212
8	Portuguese (pt) Tafonomia		187
9	Polish (pl) Tafonomia		118
10	Swedish (sv) Tafonomi		116

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fossilisation		165
2	English (en) Taphonomy		149
3	French (fr) Taphonomie		48
4	Italian (it) Tafonomia		40
5	Spanish (es) Tafonomía		31
6	Russian (ru) Тафономия		24
7	Portuguese (pt) Tafonomia		23
8	Dutch (nl) Tafonomie		20
9	Hungarian (hu) Tafonómia		19
10	Turkish (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.

Language versions of the article "Tafonomía" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Taphonomy		2
2	Spanish (es) Tafonomía		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Tafonomia		2
4	German (de) Fossilisation		1
5	Indonesian (id) Tafonomi		1
6	Arabic (ar) علم التاريخ الحفري		0
7	Belarusian (be) Тафаномія		0
8	Catalan (ca) Tafonomia		0
9	Czech (cs) Tafonomie		0
10	Greek (el) Ταφονομία		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 "Tafonomía" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

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

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic علم التاريخ الحفري
be	Belarusian Тафаномія
ca	Catalan Tafonomia
cs	Czech Tafonomie
de	German Fossilisation
el	Greek Ταφονομία
en	English Taphonomy
es	Spanish Tafonomía
eu	Basque Tafonomia
fa	Persian سنگواره‌شناسی
fr	French Taphonomie
he	Hebrew טפונומיה
hr	Croatian Tafonomija
hu	Hungarian Tafonómia
id	Indonesian Tafonomi
it	Italian Tafonomia
kk	Kazakh Тафономия
lt	Lithuanian Tafonomija
nl	Dutch Tafonomie
no	Norwegian Tafonomi
pl	Polish Tafonomia
pt	Portuguese Tafonomia
ru	Russian Тафономия
sh	Serbo-Croatian Tafonomija
sk	Slovak Tafonómia
sv	Swedish Tafonomi
tr	Turkish Tafonomi
uk	Ukrainian Тафономія
vi	Vietnamese Mồ học
zh	Chinese 埋藏学

Best Rank

Spanish: #54364 11.2011

Global: #96640 02.2015

Best Rank

Spanish: #10487 10.2022

Global: #28208 02.2003

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