Prion disease

Quality:

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - group of brain diseases induced by prion proteins. Article “Prion disease” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Prion disease”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 604 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 816 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #386 in July 2007
• Global: #6346 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #864 in July 2018
• Global: #18462 in June 2025

There are 23 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) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		65.6522
2	Slovenian (sl) Prionska bolezen		49.9706
3	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		39.8524
4	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		34.4955
5	Turkish (tr) Bulaşıcı süngerimsi ensefalopati		32.6066
6	Portuguese (pt) Doença de priónica		28.7728
7	Finnish (fi) Tarttuva sienimäinen aivosairaus		24.2261
8	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		23.5745
9	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		22.3706
10	Arabic (ar) اعتلال دماغي إسفنجي قابل للانتقال		18.8242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		2 939 412
2	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		726 148
3	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		437 674
4	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		331 733
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		195 639
6	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		166 321
7	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		159 979
8	Russian (ru) Трансмиссивные губчатые энцефалопатии		110 947
9	Czech (cs) Transmisivní spongiformní encefalopatie		58 489
10	French (fr) Encéphalopathie subaiguë spongiforme transmissible		47 249

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) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		58 439
2	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		7 284
3	Russian (ru) Трансмиссивные губчатые энцефалопатии		1 871
4	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		1 646
5	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		1 344
6	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		1 130
7	Spanish (es) Encefalopatía espongiforme transmisible		798
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		623
9	Simple English (simple) Prion disease		587
10	French (fr) Encéphalopathie subaiguë spongiforme transmissible		511

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		227
2	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		73
3	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		39
4	Polish (pl) Pasażowalne encefalopatie gąbczaste		33
5	Danish (da) TSE		32
6	Chinese (zh) 傳染性海綿狀腦病		23
7	Korean (ko) 전염성해면상뇌병증		22
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		22
9	Simple English (simple) Prion disease		21
10	Czech (cs) Transmisivní spongiformní encefalopatie		16

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	English (en) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy		3
2	Ukrainian (uk) Пріонові хвороби		2
3	French (fr) Encéphalopathie subaiguë spongiforme transmissible		1
4	Japanese (ja) 伝達性海綿状脳症		1
5	Arabic (ar) اعتلال دماغي إسفنجي قابل للانتقال		0
6	Belarusian (be) Прыёнавыя хваробы		0
7	Catalan (ca) Encefalopatia espongiforme transmissible		0
8	Czech (cs) Transmisivní spongiformní encefalopatie		0
9	Danish (da) TSE		0
10	German (de) Transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie		0

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

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