H.C. Ørsted

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Hans Christian Ørsted - Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851). This person is the 8236^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 186^th most popular person in Danish Wikipedia. Article “H.C. Ørsted” in Danish Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.78 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 527^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia.

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The 319^th most editable in Danish Wikipedia.

The 186^th most popular in people in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8236^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 1097^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “H.C. Ørsted”, its content was written by 136 registered users of Danish Wikipedia (319^th place) and edited by 2432 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hans Christian Ørsted is on the 186^th place in local ranking of people in Danish Wikipedia and on the 8236^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 628 times in Danish Wikipedia (1924^th place) and cited 5599 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #11 in September 2010
• Global: #17 in August 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #4 in August 2009
• Global: #8 in August 2009

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, 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) Hans Christian Ørsted		67.9116
2	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Ørsted		57.911
3	German (de) Hans Christian Ørsted		55.1263
4	Danish (da) H.C. Ørsted		43.0426
5	Greek (el) Χανς Κρίστιαν Έρστεντ		42.0257
6	Malay (ms) Hans Christian Ørsted		40.3551
7	Romanian (ro) Hans Christian Ørsted		40.3255
8	Armenian (hy) Հանս Քրիստիան Էրստեդ		39.2848
9	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Ørsted		38.5704
10	Turkish (tr) Hans Christian Ørsted		37.7964

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hans Christian Ørsted		3 905 304
2	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Ørsted		2 447 628
3	German (de) Hans Christian Ørsted		783 116
4	French (fr) Hans Christian Ørsted		642 991
5	Danish (da) H.C. Ørsted		549 256
6	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Ørsted		482 882
7	Russian (ru) Эрстед, Ханс Кристиан		345 832
8	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Ørsted		308 453
9	Italian (it) Hans Christian Ørsted		297 706
10	Arabic (ar) هانز أورستد		207 841

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) Hans Christian Ørsted		5 464
2	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Ørsted		1 850
3	Danish (da) H.C. Ørsted		1 265
4	German (de) Hans Christian Ørsted		1 213
5	Italian (it) Hans Christian Ørsted		511
6	Russian (ru) Эрстед, Ханс Кристиан		471
7	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Ørsted		420
8	Japanese (ja) ハンス・クリスティアン・エルステッド		410
9	French (fr) Hans Christian Ørsted		382
10	Chinese (zh) 汉斯·克里斯蒂安·奥斯特		342

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hans Christian Ørsted		371
2	German (de) Hans Christian Ørsted		281
3	French (fr) Hans Christian Ørsted		147
4	Danish (da) H.C. Ørsted		136
5	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Ørsted		118
6	Italian (it) Hans Christian Ørsted		102
7	Russian (ru) Эрстед, Ханс Кристиан		90
8	Norwegian (no) Hans Christian Ørsted		72
9	Dutch (nl) Hans Christian Ørsted		67
10	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Ørsted		54

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	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
2	German (de) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
3	Basque (eu) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
4	French (fr) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
5	Italian (it) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
6	Turkish (tr) Hans Christian Ørsted		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ганс Крістіан Ерстед		1
8	Arabic (ar) هانز أورستد		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Hans Ersted		0
10	Belarusian (be) Ганс Хрысціян Эрстэд		0

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

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