James Clerk Maxwell

Quality:

James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist (1831–1879). This person is the 3695^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James Clerk Maxwell” in Czech Wikipedia has 42.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 30 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Czech Wikipedia:

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The 9095^th most editable in Czech Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5176^th most popular in AI.

The 3695^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “James Clerk Maxwell”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Czech Wikipedia (9095^th place) and edited by 3538 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5176^th place).

James Clerk Maxwell is on the 3695^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 154 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 10912 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Czech): #81 in January 2013
• Global: #393 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Czech): #4499 in February 2010
• Global: #3583 in June 2012

There are 54 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, 2026 (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	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦		100
2	English (en) James Clerk Maxwell		96.774
3	Romanian (ro) James Clerk Maxwell		96.7277
4	Greek (el) Τζέιμς Κλερκ Μάξγουελ		96.3255
5	Esperanto (eo) James Clerk Maxwell		92.381
6	Armenian (hy) Ջեյմս Մաքսվել		91.1103
7	Vietnamese (vi) James Clerk Maxwell		90.2532
8	Russian (ru) Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк		85.9902
9	Indonesian (id) James Clerk Maxwell		78.8871
10	Spanish (es) James Clerk Maxwell		74.1913

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Clerk Maxwell		9 259 911
2	Spanish (es) James Clerk Maxwell		4 445 341
3	Russian (ru) Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк		1 593 916
4	Portuguese (pt) James Clerk Maxwell		897 707
5	German (de) James Clerk Maxwell		881 066
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クラーク・マクスウェル		777 242
7	French (fr) James Clerk Maxwell		746 076
8	Italian (it) James Clerk Maxwell		731 405
9	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦		568 369
10	Polish (pl) James Clerk Maxwell		407 268

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) James Clerk Maxwell		25 915
2	Spanish (es) James Clerk Maxwell		3 110
3	Russian (ru) Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк		3 024
4	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クラーク・マクスウェル		2 362
5	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦		2 077
6	German (de) James Clerk Maxwell		1 857
7	French (fr) James Clerk Maxwell		1 773
8	Portuguese (pt) James Clerk Maxwell		1 350
9	Polish (pl) James Clerk Maxwell		1 274
10	Italian (it) James Clerk Maxwell		1 102

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Clerk Maxwell		819
2	German (de) James Clerk Maxwell		223
3	French (fr) James Clerk Maxwell		195
4	Spanish (es) James Clerk Maxwell		172
5	Russian (ru) Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк		165
6	Italian (it) James Clerk Maxwell		154
7	Dutch (nl) James Clerk Maxwell		113
8	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦		97
9	Portuguese (pt) James Clerk Maxwell		78
10	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס קלרק מקסוול		75

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	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦		2
2	Arabic (ar) جيمس ماكسويل		1
3	Belarusian (be) Джэймс Максвел		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Джеймс Кларк Максуел		1
5	Basque (eu) James Clerk Maxwell		1
6	French (fr) James Clerk Maxwell		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ceyms Maksvell		0
8	Catalan (ca) James Clerk Maxwell		0
9	Czech (cs) James Clerk Maxwell		0
10	Danish (da) James Clerk Maxwell		0

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

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