Chemical element

Quality:

Chemical element - species of atoms having the same number of protons in the atomic nucleus and the same chemical properties, but not necessarily the same mass, or the same stability (or half-lifetime if they are unstable). Article “Chemical element” in English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 200 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8073^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 9057^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1407^th most popular in all topics.

The 2564^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9639^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Chemical element” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Chemical element”, its content was written by 864 registered users of English Wikipedia (9057^th place) and edited by 4675 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2564^th place).

The article is cited 1852 times in English Wikipedia and cited 31047 times in all languages (5291^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #394 in October 2001
• Global: #174 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1482 in September 2010
• Global: #501 in September 2010

There are 55 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	English (en) Chemical element		95
2	Chinese (zh) 化學元素		82.1441
3	French (fr) Élément chimique		82.0865
4	Indonesian (id) Unsur kimia		73.4329
5	Japanese (ja) 元素		71.2338
6	Slovenian (sl) Kemični element		64.1985
7	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		60.5175
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên tố hóa học		58.1227
9	Catalan (ca) Element químic		57.7902
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hemijski element		55.2895

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		21 775 500
2	English (en) Chemical element		15 661 639
3	German (de) Chemisches Element		3 886 846
4	Portuguese (pt) Elemento (química)		2 817 744
5	Turkish (tr) Element		2 454 725
6	Polish (pl) Pierwiastek chemiczny		2 364 500
7	Japanese (ja) 元素		2 252 080
8	French (fr) Élément chimique		2 136 703
9	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		2 127 798
10	Indonesian (id) Unsur kimia		2 023 607

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) Chemical element		34 791
2	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		21 074
3	German (de) Chemisches Element		7 399
4	Japanese (ja) 元素		6 655
5	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		4 876
6	Chinese (zh) 化學元素		3 299
7	French (fr) Élément chimique		3 105
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên tố hóa học		3 053
9	Thai (th) ธาตุ		2 735
10	Polish (pl) Pierwiastek chemiczny		2 316

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chemical element		864
2	German (de) Chemisches Element		330
3	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		296
4	French (fr) Élément chimique		210
5	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		143
6	Japanese (ja) 元素		142
7	Italian (it) Elemento chimico		139
8	Hebrew (he) יסוד כימי		129
9	Turkish (tr) Element		122
10	Dutch (nl) Chemisch element		118

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	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		6
2	English (en) Chemical element		3
3	Dutch (nl) Chemisch element		2
4	German (de) Chemisches Element		1
5	Tamil (ta) தனிமம்		1
6	Urdu (ur) کیمیائی عنصر		1
7	Chinese (zh) 化學元素		1
8	Arabic (ar) عنصر كيميائي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kimyəvi element		0
10	Belarusian (be) Хімічны элемент		0

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

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