Cathode ray tube

Quality:

Cathode ray tube - vacuum tube that can show moving pictures, vector graphics, or lines. Article “Cathode ray tube” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 814 references and 48 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 “Cathode ray tube” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cathode ray tube”, its content was written by 903 registered users of English Wikipedia (8699^th place) and edited by 2467 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1734 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8766 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #405 in October 2001
• Global: #419 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6440 in September 2008
• Global: #6039 in October 2009

There are 46 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) Cathode ray tube		100
2	Korean (ko) 브라운관		100
3	Spanish (es) Tubo de rayos catódicos		58.8683
4	German (de) Kathodenstrahlröhre		52.8328
5	Slovenian (sl) Katodna cev		49.5261
6	Catalan (ca) Tub de raigs catòdics		44.9419
7	Slovak (sk) Obrazovka (klasická)		44.1123
8	French (fr) Tube cathodique		40.9042
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ống tia âm cực		39.7634
10	Russian (ru) Электронно-лучевые приборы		31.6644

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cathode ray tube		10 976 519
2	Spanish (es) Tubo de rayos catódicos		2 095 913
3	German (de) Kathodenstrahlröhre		1 593 750
4	Japanese (ja) ブラウン管		1 321 731
5	French (fr) Tube cathodique		877 633
6	Russian (ru) Электронно-лучевые приборы		846 778
7	Italian (it) Tubo a raggi catodici		563 220
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubo de raios catódicos		491 018
9	Arabic (ar) صمام الأشعة المهبطية		386 762
10	Chinese (zh) 阴极射线管		381 830

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) Cathode ray tube		23 844
2	Japanese (ja) ブラウン管		4 852
3	German (de) Kathodenstrahlröhre		1 973
4	French (fr) Tube cathodique		1 517
5	Spanish (es) Tubo de rayos catódicos		1 251
6	Russian (ru) Электронно-лучевые приборы		1 231
7	Chinese (zh) 阴极射线管		969
8	Italian (it) Tubo a raggi catodici		956
9	Dutch (nl) Kathodestraalbuis		330
10	Persian (fa) لامپ پرتوی کاتدی		317

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cathode ray tube		903
2	German (de) Kathodenstrahlröhre		252
3	French (fr) Tube cathodique		164
4	Spanish (es) Tubo de rayos catódicos		160
5	Japanese (ja) ブラウン管		101
6	Dutch (nl) Kathodestraalbuis		84
7	Portuguese (pt) Tubo de raios catódicos		53
8	Russian (ru) Электронно-лучевые приборы		48
9	Italian (it) Tubo a raggi catodici		45
10	Swedish (sv) Katodstrålerör		44

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) Cathode ray tube		4
2	Korean (ko) 브라운관		2
3	Arabic (ar) صمام الأشعة المهبطية		1
4	German (de) Kathodenstrahlröhre		1
5	Basque (eu) Izpi katodikozko hodi		1
6	Thai (th) หลอดรังสีแคโทด		1
7	Urdu (ur) کیتھوڈ رے ٹیوب		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Elektron-şüa borusu		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Електроннолъчева тръба		0
10	Catalan (ca) Tub de raigs catòdics		0

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

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