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Which bugs the world reads about

Public interest, measured in Wikipedia pageviews — the legitimate stand-in for the un-queryable 'Google count'.

Most-studied Most-viewed Fastest-rising

h-1,096

top h-index · Escherichia coli

641,098

most viewed · Helicobacter pylori

166.56×

fastest-rising · Akkermansia muciniphila

1905

taxa tracked · 6 ranks

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Distribution of Wikipedia views across 50 taxa

Studied vs sequenced — genomes (x) against papers (y), both log

#	Taxon	Papers	Title/abs	OA	h-index	Citations	Wiki/yr	Trend
1	Helicobacter pylori	122,701	54,399	47%	560	876,829	641,098	2.71×
2	Escherichia coli	1,019,027	354,837	37%	1,096	3,367,405	520,653	2.43×
3	Yersinia pestis	24,691	4,425	50%	333	406,507	430,962	1.5×
4	Staphylococcus aureus	410,959	163,459	48%	739	1,284,052	387,832	4.13×
5	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	247,415	89,234	51%	648	1,033,632	280,752	4.42×
6	Bacillus subtilis	135,774	44,461	44%	537	789,090	221,894	3.23×
7	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	211,735	65,297	47%	631	1,031,100	201,383	2.69×
8	Streptococcus pyogenes	55,124	10,780	47%	439	657,007	160,704	3.5×
9	Streptococcus pneumoniae	108,462	32,149	48%	504	737,224	151,826	2.74×
10	Enterococcus faecalis	69,055	18,103	59%	422	554,602	148,495	5.82×
11	Bacillus cereus	44,034	13,657	53%	343	409,630	133,459	4.31×
12	Klebsiella pneumoniae	119,593	40,381	59%	490	718,783	122,931	7.7×
13	Neisseria meningitidis	39,154	10,359	40%	371	511,145	116,345	1.93×
14	Neisseria gonorrhoeae	38,765	12,966	34%	354	448,802	104,746	2.72×
15	Proteus mirabilis	31,632	7,230	51%	319	375,426	102,808	5.16×
16	Vibrio cholerae	43,634	12,622	42%	432	571,853	100,367	2.09×
17	Staphylococcus epidermidis	52,575	14,751	55%	371	445,604	93,373	4.54×
18	Listeria monocytogenes	75,683	26,967	48%	547	785,502	93,083	2.84×
19	Acinetobacter baumannii	51,623	18,685	67%	356	466,464	82,448	9.3×
20	Clostridioides difficile	28,525	7,213	52%	273	278,847	79,937	7.39×
21	Streptococcus agalactiae	29,364	5,711	48%	276	307,587	75,956	3.8×
22	Campylobacter jejuni	32,055	10,568	50%	366	454,388	65,212	2.49×
23	Salmonella enterica	68,570	20,625	54%	483	697,872	63,543	2.5×
24	Akkermansia muciniphila	15,435	2,688	83%	305	340,078	63,176	166.56×
25	Legionella pneumophila	24,079	7,147	46%	341	415,696	50,473	1.9×
26	Bordetella pertussis	39,424	6,750	47%	344	428,843	50,123	3.08×
27	Enterococcus faecium	36,230	9,919	64%	339	406,254	45,756	7.26×
28	Lactiplantibacillus plantarum	11,923	4,095	53%	129	89,204	44,253	17.04×
29	Citrobacter freundii	14,208	2,804	54%	249	254,646	39,032	4.4×
30	Bifidobacterium longum	15,354	3,211	74%	317	350,030	36,787	11.24×
31	Vibrio parahaemolyticus	15,485	6,501	46%	247	285,994	20,074	4.24×
32	Phocaeicola vulgatus	3,456	129	75%	186	157,384	19,120	22.19×
33	Burkholderia mallei	1,918	496	57%	122	76,139	18,773	0.82×
34	Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron	8,747	1,386	65%	315	365,315	14,451	7.37×
35	Brucella melitensis	7,802	2,683	44%	178	139,686	11,687	2.76×
36	Klebsiella variicola	1,702	376	80%	87	41,904	10,443	57.25×
37	Streptococcus suis	7,231	2,854	59%	169	148,587	10,077	3.54×
38	Campylobacter coli	5,696	2,121	41%	175	144,939	7,382	1.9×
39	Bacteroides uniformis	4,392	438	73%	187	170,639	5,032	12.02×
40	Parabacteroides distasonis	3,178	383	83%	177	130,370	4,707	24.73×
41	Enterobacter hormaechei	2,544	663	76%	93	49,740	3,261	30.64×
42	Mycobacterium abscessus	6,889	3,076	58%	163	122,882	2,521	7.22×
43	Wolbachia pipientis	1,611	527	62%	132	80,605	1,561	1.96×
44	Klebsiella quasipneumoniae	808	228	80%	62	17,852	4	51.67×
45	Bacillus velezensis	4,523	2,025	69%	103	53,326	1	58.25×
46	Lepagella muris	13	1	85%	5	429	—	1×
47	Aquipseudomonas viridiflava	0	0	—	0	0	—	—
48	Enterobacter intestinihominis	9	3	78%	2	38	—	1×
49	Sarcina perfringens	11	2	91%	5	66	—	1×
50	Muribaculum gordoncarteri	68	13	87%	11	680	—	23×

Cohort attention over time

How this is tracked

Cohortphylum/class/order in full; top-by-genome species & genera; top 50 species & genera by GTDB genome count. Higher ranks fill in over repeated runs

PapersEurope PMC hitCount (name anywhere; phyla OR-in legacy synonym); Europe PMC TITLE_ABS: (papers about the taxon)

h-indexlargest k with k papers cited ≥ k (capped at 4000 papers)

Open accessEurope PMC OPEN_ACCESS:y count; oaShare = openAccess/papers

Pageviewsen.wikipedia trailing 12 months (202510–202610) · the legitimate stand-in for the un-queryable “Google count”

Trendpapers in anchor years 2010/2015/2020/2025; growth = newest/oldest-nonzero

Methodscripts/check-taxon-popularity.mjs · open JSON at /api/taxon-popularity · snapshot 2026-10-19

Attention is not importance, and name-matching counts carry homonym noise (mitigated for renamed phyla) — read these as a rough map of where the field’s effort and the public’s curiosity land. Aggregate counts only. · back to all research data