Activated carbon

Quality:

Activated carbon - form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area. Article “Activated carbon” in English Wikipedia has 93 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 123 references and 43 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Activated carbon” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Activated carbon”, its content was written by 465 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1841 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1855 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5211 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4989 in December 2003
• Global: #3253 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8138 in October 2014
• Global: #6149 in August 2016

There are 42 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) Activated carbon		92.9975
2	German (de) Aktivkohle		64.4909
3	Greek (el) Ενεργός άνθρακας		58.5537
4	Swedish (sv) Aktivt kol		57.9013
5	Estonian (et) Aktiivsüsi		57.4492
6	Russian (ru) Активированный уголь		42.9027
7	Spanish (es) Carbón activado		39.504
8	French (fr) Charbon actif		38.059
9	Dutch (nl) Actieve kool		36.3253
10	Ukrainian (uk) Активоване вугілля		35.6654

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Activated carbon		8 661 435
2	Spanish (es) Carbón activado		3 260 067
3	Russian (ru) Активированный уголь		2 821 748
4	German (de) Aktivkohle		1 991 942
5	French (fr) Charbon actif		1 603 394
6	Japanese (ja) 活性炭		1 045 010
7	Portuguese (pt) Carvão ativado		947 975
8	Polish (pl) Węgiel aktywny		712 917
9	Chinese (zh) 活性炭		636 184
10	Italian (it) Carbone attivo		509 711

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) Activated carbon		16 950
2	Russian (ru) Активированный уголь		4 257
3	German (de) Aktivkohle		3 224
4	French (fr) Charbon actif		2 832
5	Japanese (ja) 活性炭		2 119
6	Spanish (es) Carbón activado		2 028
7	Chinese (zh) 活性炭		1 457
8	Korean (ko) 활성탄		1 061
9	Czech (cs) Aktivní uhlí		893
10	Polish (pl) Węgiel aktywny		829

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Activated carbon		465
2	German (de) Aktivkohle		242
3	French (fr) Charbon actif		120
4	Russian (ru) Активированный уголь		102
5	Dutch (nl) Actieve kool		94
6	Spanish (es) Carbón activado		93
7	Swedish (sv) Aktivt kol		62
8	Italian (it) Carbone attivo		50
9	Czech (cs) Aktivní uhlí		48
10	Polish (pl) Węgiel aktywny		47

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	English (en) Activated carbon		5
2	Czech (cs) Aktivní uhlí		1
3	Polish (pl) Węgiel aktywny		1
4	Arabic (ar) كربون نشط		0
5	Belarusian (be) Актывіраваны вугаль		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Активен въглен		0
7	Catalan (ca) Carbó actiu		0
8	German (de) Aktivkohle		0
9	Greek (el) Ενεργός άνθρακας		0
10	Spanish (es) Carbón activado		0

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

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