Circular polarization

Quality:

Circular polarization - polarization state. Article “Circular polarization” in English Wikipedia has 65.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 34 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.45 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.

In June 2026 the article “Circular polarization” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Circular polarization”, its content was written by 172 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 268 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 239 times in English Wikipedia and cited 448 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4862 in May 2002
• Global: #6332 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1822 in February 2015
• Global: #7804 in February 2015

There are 14 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) Circular polarization		65.5002
2	Chinese (zh) 圆偏振		65.4938
3	French (fr) Polarisation circulaire		50.3642
4	Persian (fa) قطبش دایره‌ای		48.5152
5	Hebrew (he) קיטוב מעגלי		43.6523
6	Russian (ru) Круговая поляризация		30.0521
7	Arabic (ar) استقطاب دائري		17.7998
8	Spanish (es) Polarización circular		17.5346
9	Catalan (ca) Polarització circular		17.3587
10	Indonesian (id) Polarisasi sirkular		16.2934

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Circular polarization		2 674 685
2	French (fr) Polarisation circulaire		100 661
3	Spanish (es) Polarización circular		94 548
4	Russian (ru) Круговая поляризация		57 308
5	Hebrew (he) קיטוב מעגלי		21 500
6	Arabic (ar) استقطاب دائري		18 426
7	Chinese (zh) 圆偏振		8 323
8	Slovenian (sl) Krožna polarizacija		6 376
9	Persian (fa) قطبش دایره‌ای		3 535
10	Korean (ko) 원편파		1 098

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) Circular polarization		5 198
2	Russian (ru) Круговая поляризация		400
3	Chinese (zh) 圆偏振		395
4	French (fr) Polarisation circulaire		326
5	Spanish (es) Polarización circular		148
6	Persian (fa) قطبش دایره‌ای		60
7	Hebrew (he) קיטוב מעגלי		44
8	Korean (ko) 원편파		20
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кругова поляризація світла		19
10	Catalan (ca) Polarització circular		10

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Circular polarization		172
2	French (fr) Polarisation circulaire		31
3	Hebrew (he) קיטוב מעגלי		20
4	Arabic (ar) استقطاب دائري		8
5	Spanish (es) Polarización circular		6
6	Slovenian (sl) Krožna polarizacija		6
7	Chinese (zh) 圆偏振		6
8	Persian (fa) قطبش دایره‌ای		5
9	Russian (ru) Круговая поляризация		5
10	Catalan (ca) Polarització circular		3

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	Indonesian (id) Polarisasi sirkular		2
2	English (en) Circular polarization		1
3	French (fr) Polarisation circulaire		1
4	Arabic (ar) استقطاب دائري		0
5	Catalan (ca) Polarització circular		0
6	Spanish (es) Polarización circular		0
7	Persian (fa) قطبش دایره‌ای		0
8	Hebrew (he) קיטוב מעגלי		0
9	Korean (ko) 원편파		0
10	Russian (ru) Круговая поляризация		0

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

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