Backscatter

Backscatter - reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the approximate direction from which they came. Article “Backscatter” in English Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.99 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Backscatter”, its content was written by 105 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 148 times in English Wikipedia and cited 297 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6481 in April 2002
• Global: #7331 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #32780 in April 2008
• Global: #56141 in April 2008

There are 11 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	Chinese (zh) 後向散射		22.7609
2	Arabic (ar) تبعثر مرتد		20.6638
3	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		20.3777
4	English (en) Backscatter		18.8739
5	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		14.6453
6	Italian (it) Backscatter		10.2799
7	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		9.9695
8	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		7.01
9	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотне розсіювання		6.0639
10	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		2.0346

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backscatter" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter		1 017 441
2	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		71 261
3	Italian (it) Backscatter		56 164
4	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		32 977
5	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		29 417
6	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie wsteczne		21 803
7	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		19 659
8	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		6 140
9	Chinese (zh) 後向散射		5 611
10	Arabic (ar) تبعثر مرتد		351

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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 "Backscatter" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter		2 639
2	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		265
3	Italian (it) Backscatter		142
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		127
5	Chinese (zh) 後向散射		119
6	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		89
7	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		76
8	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie wsteczne		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		17
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотне розсіювання		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backscatter		105
2	Italian (it) Backscatter		18
3	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		12
4	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie wsteczne		7
5	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		6
6	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		5
7	Chinese (zh) 後向散射		5
8	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		3
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотне розсіювання		3

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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 "Backscatter" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تبعثر مرتد		0
2	English (en) Backscatter		0
3	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		0
4	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		0
5	Italian (it) Backscatter		0
6	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		0
7	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie wsteczne		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		0
9	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотне розсіювання		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 "Backscatter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Backscatter		148
2	French (fr) Rétrodiffusion		36
3	Japanese (ja) 後方散乱		27
4	Spanish (es) Retrodispersión		19
5	Italian (it) Backscatter		17
6	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние		14
7	Portuguese (pt) Retrodifusão		10
8	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie wsteczne		9
9	Chinese (zh) 後向散射		9
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зворотне розсіювання		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تبعثر مرتد
en	English Backscatter
es	Spanish Retrodispersión
fr	French Rétrodiffusion
it	Italian Backscatter
ja	Japanese 後方散乱
pl	Polish Rozpraszanie wsteczne
pt	Portuguese Retrodifusão
ru	Russian Обратное рассеяние
uk	Ukrainian Зворотне розсіювання
zh	Chinese 後向散射

Best Rank

English: #32780 04.2008

Global: #56141 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #6481 04.2002

Global: #7331 04.2002

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