Alpha decay

Quality:

Alpha decay - emission of alpha particles by a decaying radioactive atom. Article “Alpha decay” in English Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Alpha decay”, its content was written by 256 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1092 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 443 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4825 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1364 in June 2002
• Global: #2065 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23074 in March 2011
• Global: #8805 in March 2011

There are 45 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	Croatian (hr) Alfa raspad		59.8586
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Alfa raspad		53.9384
3	Russian (ru) Альфа-распад		45.0059
4	Catalan (ca) Desintegració α		44.4429
5	English (en) Alpha decay		38.0565
6	Swedish (sv) Alfasönderfall		36.349
7	Malay (ms) Pereputan alfa		35.0558
8	Chinese (zh) Α衰变		30.8189
9	Italian (it) Decadimento alfa		29.3696
10	Tamil (ta) அல்ஃபா சிதைவு		27.9037

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alpha decay		3 488 115
2	Russian (ru) Альфа-распад		898 672
3	Japanese (ja) アルファ崩壊		735 926
4	Polish (pl) Rozpad alfa		609 927
5	French (fr) Radioactivité α		509 435
6	Spanish (es) Desintegración alfa		421 724
7	Italian (it) Decadimento alfa		392 461
8	Chinese (zh) Α衰变		267 885
9	Portuguese (pt) Emissão alfa		220 313
10	Hebrew (he) קרינת אלפא		184 523

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) Alpha decay		5 386
2	Japanese (ja) アルファ崩壊		1 118
3	French (fr) Radioactivité α		1 057
4	Russian (ru) Альфа-распад		1 037
5	Chinese (zh) Α衰变		474
6	Italian (it) Decadimento alfa		414
7	Spanish (es) Desintegración alfa		330
8	Polish (pl) Rozpad alfa		303
9	Hebrew (he) קרינת אלפא		216
10	Turkish (tr) Alfa bozunması		204

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alpha decay		256
2	French (fr) Radioactivité α		88
3	Italian (it) Decadimento alfa		74
4	Hebrew (he) קרינת אלפא		61
5	Russian (ru) Альфа-распад		57
6	Japanese (ja) アルファ崩壊		42
7	Chinese (zh) Α衰变		42
8	Hungarian (hu) Alfa-részecske		37
9	Polish (pl) Rozpad alfa		31
10	Spanish (es) Desintegración alfa		30

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	Galician (gl) Desintegración alfa		4
2	Croatian (hr) Alfa raspad		2
3	Arabic (ar) اضمحلال ألفا		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Alfa dağılması		0
5	Belarusian (be) Альфа-распад		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Алфа-разпад		0
7	Catalan (ca) Desintegració α		0
8	Danish (da) Alfahenfald		0
9	Greek (el) Διάσπαση άλφα		0
10	English (en) Alpha decay		0

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

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