Carl Sagan Medal

Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science - American award for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public. Article "Carl Sagan Medal" in English Wikipedia has 16 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Carl Sagan Medal", its content was written by 25 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 77 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 64 times in English Wikipedia and cited 242 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #110663 in July 2014
• Global: #55464 in May 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #856112 in July 2021
• Global: #1341777 in November 2014

There are 8 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		26.0247
2	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		19.5962
3	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		18.504
4	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		18.3628
5	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		16.0332
6	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		15.4587
7	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		8.2118
8	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		7.549

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Carl Sagan Medal" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		34 211
2	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		3 807
3	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		2 739
4	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		2 226
5	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		688
6	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		434
7	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		393
8	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		110

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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 "Carl Sagan Medal" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		95
2	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		15
3	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		15
4	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		14
5	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		9
6	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		8
7	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		7
8	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		25
2	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		14
3	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		13
4	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		8
5	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		8
6	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		4
7	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		3
8	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		2

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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 "Carl Sagan Medal" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		0
2	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		0
3	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		0
4	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		0
5	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		0
7	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		0
8	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		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 "Carl Sagan Medal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Carl Sagan Medal		64
2	French (fr) Médaille Carl-Sagan		42
3	Turkish (tr) Carl Sagan Madalyası		39
4	Italian (it) Medaglia Carl Sagan		29
5	Portuguese (pt) Medalha Carl Sagan		28
6	Arabic (ar) وسام كارل ساغان		24
7	Spanish (es) Medalla Carl Sagan		8
8	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·萨根奖章		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وسام كارل ساغان
en	English Carl Sagan Medal
es	Spanish Medalla Carl Sagan
fr	French Médaille Carl-Sagan
it	Italian Medaglia Carl Sagan
pt	Portuguese Medalha Carl Sagan
tr	Turkish Carl Sagan Madalyası
zh	Chinese 卡尔·萨根奖章

Best Rank

English: #856112 07.2021

Global: #1341777 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #110663 07.2014

Global: #55464 05.2016

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