Automatic Identification System

Automatic identification system - automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services. Article “Automatic Identification System” in German Wikipedia has 50.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.66 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Automatic Identification System”, its content was written by 142 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1050 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 227 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1720 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #6056 in January 2012
• Global: #7971 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #15378 in March 2021
• Global: #40227 in January 2012

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, 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	English (en) Automatic identification system		78.0996
2	German (de) Automatic Identification System		50.4624
3	Dutch (nl) Automatisch identificatiesysteem		40.0651
4	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		39.1416
5	Catalan (ca) Sistema d'Identificació Automàtica		39.1384
6	Greek (el) Αυτόματο Σύστημα Αναγνώρισης		33.2055
7	Polish (pl) Automatic Identification System		32.6694
8	Hebrew (he) מערכת זיהוי אוטומטי		27.9145
9	Finnish (fi) AIS-järjestelmä		23.5123
10	Spanish (es) Sistema de Identificación Automática		22.396

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Automatic Identification System" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Automatic identification system		3 760 196
2	German (de) Automatic Identification System		628 740
3	Russian (ru) Автоматическая идентификационная система		422 261
4	Japanese (ja) 自動船舶識別装置		399 007
5	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		318 997
6	Spanish (es) Sistema de Identificación Automática		281 328
7	Polish (pl) Automatic Identification System		172 993
8	Dutch (nl) Automatisch identificatiesysteem		164 814
9	Chinese (zh) 自動識別系統		120 285
10	Swedish (sv) Automatic Identification System		105 140

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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 "Automatic Identification System" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Automatic identification system		8 791
2	German (de) Automatic Identification System		2 149
3	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		882
4	Japanese (ja) 自動船舶識別装置		799
5	Russian (ru) Автоматическая идентификационная система		606
6	Chinese (zh) 自動識別系統		562
7	Polish (pl) Automatic Identification System		360
8	Spanish (es) Sistema de Identificación Automática		295
9	Italian (it) Sistema di identificazione automatica		261
10	Swedish (sv) Automatic Identification System		193

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Automatic identification system		377
2	German (de) Automatic Identification System		142
3	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		71
4	Dutch (nl) Automatisch identificatiesysteem		62
5	Russian (ru) Автоматическая идентификационная система		43
6	Polish (pl) Automatic Identification System		38
7	Spanish (es) Sistema de Identificación Automática		34
8	Turkish (tr) Otomatik tanımlama sistemi		33
9	Japanese (ja) 自動船舶識別装置		32
10	Swedish (sv) Automatic Identification System		32

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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 "Automatic Identification System" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Automatic identification system		4
2	Turkish (tr) Otomatik tanımlama sistemi		2
3	Catalan (ca) Sistema d'Identificació Automàtica		1
4	Finnish (fi) AIS-järjestelmä		1
5	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		1
6	Arabic (ar) نظام تحديد الهوية الآلي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Avtomatik identifikasiya sistemi		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Система за автоматична идентификация		0
9	Danish (da) Automatic Identification System		0
10	German (de) Automatic Identification System		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 "Automatic Identification System" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 自動船舶識別装置		338
2	English (en) Automatic identification system		319
3	French (fr) Système d'identification automatique		288
4	German (de) Automatic Identification System		227
5	Indonesian (id) Sistem Identifikasi Otomatis		69
6	Dutch (nl) Automatisch identificatiesysteem		57
7	Italian (it) Sistema di identificazione automatica		54
8	Polish (pl) Automatic Identification System		46
9	Spanish (es) Sistema de Identificación Automática		34
10	Russian (ru) Автоматическая идентификационная система		33

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظام تحديد الهوية الآلي
az	Azerbaijani Avtomatik identifikasiya sistemi
bg	Bulgarian Система за автоматична идентификация
ca	Catalan Sistema d'Identificació Automàtica
da	Danish Automatic Identification System
de	German Automatic Identification System
el	Greek Αυτόματο Σύστημα Αναγνώρισης
en	English Automatic identification system
es	Spanish Sistema de Identificación Automática
et	Estonian Automaatne identifitseerimissüsteem
fi	Finnish AIS-järjestelmä
fr	French Système d'identification automatique
he	Hebrew מערכת זיהוי אוטומטי
hr	Croatian Automatski identifikacijski sustav
id	Indonesian Sistem Identifikasi Otomatis
it	Italian Sistema di identificazione automatica
ja	Japanese 自動船舶識別装置
ms	Malay Sistem Pengenalan Automatik
nl	Dutch Automatisch identificatiesysteem
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Automatisk identifikasjonssystem
no	Norwegian Automatisk identifikasjonssystem
pl	Polish Automatic Identification System
pt	Portuguese Automatic Identification System
ru	Russian Автоматическая идентификационная система
sh	Serbo-Croatian Automatski identifikacijski sistem
simple	Simple English Automatic Identification System
sv	Swedish Automatic Identification System
tr	Turkish Otomatik tanımlama sistemi
uk	Ukrainian Автоматична ідентифікаційна система
zh	Chinese 自動識別系統

Best Rank

German: #15378 03.2021

Global: #40227 01.2012

Best Rank

German: #6056 01.2012

Global: #7971 01.2012

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