Cosmic ray

Quality:

Cosmic radiation - high-speed, i.e. high-energy particle, mainly originating in outer space, outside the Solar system. Article "Cosmic ray" in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 131 references and 32 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Cosmic ray" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Cosmic ray", its content was written by 570 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2161 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1624 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11697 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #717 in April 2002
• Global: #1003 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7040 in September 2014
• Global: #10401 in March 2020

There are 51 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	English (en) Cosmic ray		91.3376
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		71.0043
3	Ukrainian (uk) Космічні промені		64.6503
4	Croatian (hr) Kozmičke zrake		57.1096
5	Catalan (ca) Raigs còsmics		50.4715
6	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		46.0023
7	Finnish (fi) Kosminen säteily		45.1057
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kozmičke zrake		40.977
9	Slovenian (sl) Kozmični žarki		39.1718
10	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		38.5501

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cosmic ray		5 690 151
2	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		1 317 215
3	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		998 076
4	Japanese (ja) 宇宙線		859 388
5	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		635 474
6	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		579 717
7	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		453 065
8	Polish (pl) Promieniowanie kosmiczne		399 201
9	Portuguese (pt) Raio cósmico		294 831
10	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		252 830

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) Cosmic ray		17 258
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		3 253
3	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		2 639
4	Japanese (ja) 宇宙線		2 446
5	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		1 907
6	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		1 382
7	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		1 289
8	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		1 086
9	Polish (pl) Promieniowanie kosmiczne		961
10	Portuguese (pt) Raio cósmico		551

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cosmic ray		570
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		242
3	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		143
4	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		125
5	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		89
6	Dutch (nl) Kosmische straling		81
7	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		72
8	Hebrew (he) קרן קוסמית		54
9	Norwegian (no) Kosmisk stråling		47
10	Danish (da) Kosmisk stråling		43

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) Radiación cósmica		2
2	Ukrainian (uk) Космічні промені		2
3	English (en) Cosmic ray		1
4	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		1
5	Arabic (ar) أشعة كونية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kosmik şüalar		0
7	Belarusian (be) Касмічныя прамяні		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Космически лъчи		0
9	Catalan (ca) Raigs còsmics		0
10	Czech (cs) Kosmické záření		0

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

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