A* search algorithm

Quality:

A* search algorithm - algorithm used for pathfinding and graph traversal. Article "A* search algorithm" in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "A* search algorithm" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "A* search algorithm", its content was written by 431 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 121 times in English Wikipedia and cited 803 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2195 in November 2004
• Global: #5323 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #196 in October 2012
• Global: #984 in October 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, 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) A* search algorithm		70.1955
2	Hungarian (hu) A* algoritmus		60.1165
3	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo A*		52.7774
4	Catalan (ca) Algorisme de cerca A*		42.7465
5	German (de) A*-Algorithmus		37.1742
6	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ای استار		35.869
7	Thai (th) การค้นหาแบบเอสตาร์		35.0829
8	Polish (pl) Algorytm A*		29.0067
9	French (fr) Algorithme A*		24.6127
10	Bulgarian (bg) Алгоритъм А*		24.0223

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A* search algorithm		15 404 301
2	Russian (ru) A*		786 847
3	German (de) A*-Algorithmus		782 995
4	French (fr) Algorithme A*		570 216
5	Japanese (ja) A*		471 505
6	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda A*		454 412
7	Chinese (zh) A*搜尋演算法		342 085
8	Polish (pl) Algorytm A*		256 726
9	Korean (ko) A* 알고리즘		182 829
10	Vietnamese (vi) Giải thuật tìm kiếm A*		169 772

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) A* search algorithm		33 433
2	Russian (ru) A*		2 296
3	French (fr) Algorithme A*		2 004
4	German (de) A*-Algorithmus		1 895
5	Japanese (ja) A*		1 294
6	Chinese (zh) A*搜尋演算法		1 179
7	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda A*		960
8	Polish (pl) Algorytm A*		669
9	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo A*		449
10	Simple English (simple) A* search algorithm		446

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A* search algorithm		431
2	German (de) A*-Algorithmus		137
3	French (fr) Algorithme A*		78
4	Italian (it) Algoritmo A*		47
5	Russian (ru) A*		41
6	Polish (pl) Algorytm A*		39
7	Chinese (zh) A*搜尋演算法		39
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda A*		30
9	Dutch (nl) A*-algoritme		28
10	Vietnamese (vi) Giải thuật tìm kiếm A*		27

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	Polish (pl) Algorytm A*		2
2	English (en) A* search algorithm		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo A*		1
4	Thai (th) การค้นหาแบบเอสตาร์		1
5	Chinese (zh) A*搜尋演算法		1
6	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية البحث بأولوية الأفضل		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Алгоритъм А*		0
8	Catalan (ca) Algorisme de cerca A*		0
9	Czech (cs) A*		0
10	German (de) A*-Algorithmus		0

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

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