Carbon sink

Quality:

Carbon sink - natural or artificial process in which something absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Article “Carbon sink” in English Wikipedia has 80.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 77 references and 14 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 2026 the article “Carbon sink” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Carbon sink”, its content was written by 419 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 882 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 876 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #600 in July 2001
• Global: #829 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2370 in January 2014
• Global: #7965 in January 2014

There are 22 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	English (en) Carbon sink		80.177
2	French (fr) Puits de carbone		67.9785
3	Korean (ko) 탄소흡수원		63.0123
4	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		56.3832
5	Greek (el) Δεξαμενή άνθρακα		44.3677
6	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		41.2621
7	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		37.226
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bể chứa carbon		31.4479
9	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		30.2063
10	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		23.0107

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carbon sink		3 510 300
2	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		478 563
3	French (fr) Puits de carbone		476 720
4	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		443 452
5	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		241 179
6	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		139 430
7	Japanese (ja) 二酸化炭素吸収源		85 624
8	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		63 401
9	Swedish (sv) Kolsänka		46 614
10	Italian (it) Serbatoio di carbonio		22 952

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) Carbon sink		2 715
2	French (fr) Puits de carbone		800
3	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		525
4	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		319
5	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		137
6	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		128
7	Korean (ko) 탄소흡수원		81
8	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		76
9	Swedish (sv) Kolsänka		72
10	Japanese (ja) 二酸化炭素吸収源		52

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carbon sink		419
2	French (fr) Puits de carbone		145
3	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		96
4	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		50
5	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		29
6	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		28
7	Swedish (sv) Kolsänka		19
8	Italian (it) Serbatoio di carbonio		17
9	Arabic (ar) مصرف كربون		12
10	Czech (cs) Propad uhlíku		9

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) Carbon sink		2
2	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		2
3	Catalan (ca) Embornal de carboni		1
4	Czech (cs) Propad uhlíku		1
5	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		1
6	Basque (eu) Karbono-hustuleku		1
7	Arabic (ar) مصرف كربون		0
8	Danish (da) Kulstoflager		0
9	Greek (el) Δεξαμενή άνθρακα		0
10	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		0

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

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