Alpha particle

Quality:

Alpha particle - particle of alpha radiation; helium-4 nucleus; particle of two protons and two neutrons. Article “Alpha particle” in English Wikipedia has 68.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 44 references and 19 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Alpha particle” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alpha particle”, its content was written by 410 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1495 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 709 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5796 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #206 in August 2001
• Global: #213 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9042 in March 2011
• Global: #7803 in March 2011

There are 44 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-čestica		72.3235
2	English (en) Alpha particle		68.4476
3	Chinese (zh) Α粒子		62.479
4	Catalan (ca) Partícula α		60.5822
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Alfa-čestica		56.8818
6	Portuguese (pt) Partícula alfa		50.9914
7	Ukrainian (uk) Альфа-частинка		50.7933
8	Slovak (sk) Častica alfa		41.9134
9	Basque (eu) Alfa partikula		41.2721
10	Spanish (es) Partícula alfa		40.8623

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alpha particle		6 719 230
2	Spanish (es) Partícula alfa		1 971 215
3	Russian (ru) Альфа-частица		1 429 522
4	Japanese (ja) アルファ粒子		944 921
5	Italian (it) Particella α		490 128
6	French (fr) Particule α		475 593
7	Portuguese (pt) Partícula alfa		470 039
8	Arabic (ar) جسيم ألفا		466 123
9	Chinese (zh) Α粒子		438 987
10	Thai (th) อนุภาคแอลฟา		363 628

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 particle		9 381
2	Russian (ru) Альфа-частица		1 679
3	Japanese (ja) アルファ粒子		1 202
4	Chinese (zh) Α粒子		1 022
5	Spanish (es) Partícula alfa		860
6	French (fr) Particule α		713
7	Italian (it) Particella α		472
8	Persian (fa) ذرات آلفا		363
9	Czech (cs) Záření alfa		362
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hạt alpha		327

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alpha particle		410
2	French (fr) Particule α		74
3	Russian (ru) Альфа-частица		72
4	Italian (it) Particella α		70
5	Spanish (es) Partícula alfa		67
6	Japanese (ja) アルファ粒子		60
7	Dutch (nl) Alfadeeltje		58
8	Chinese (zh) Α粒子		56
9	Portuguese (pt) Partícula alfa		45
10	Czech (cs) Záření alfa		42

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	Czech (cs) Záření alfa		3
2	English (en) Alpha particle		2
3	Croatian (hr) Alfa-čestica		2
4	Thai (th) อนุภาคแอลฟา		2
5	Catalan (ca) Partícula α		1
6	Basque (eu) Alfa partikula		1
7	Indonesian (id) Partikel Alfa		1
8	Slovak (sk) Častica alfa		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Альфа-частинка		1
10	Arabic (ar) جسيم ألفا		0

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

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