Death ray

Death ray - theoretical weapon. Article “Death ray” in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Death ray” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Death ray”, its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 448 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 84 times in English Wikipedia and cited 414 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3271 in September 2003
• Global: #9299 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14756 in January 2018
• Global: #14137 in July 2009

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, 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	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		37.1931
2	English (en) Death ray		31.4257
3	Turkish (tr) Ölüm ışını		31.0189
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zraka smrti		27.1656
5	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		26.1837
6	Norwegian (no) Dødsstråle		20.0553
7	Russian (ru) Луч смерти		19.9846
8	Chinese (zh) 死光		18.0979
9	Arabic (ar) شعاع الموت		17.1877
10	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		14.8537

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Death ray" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Death ray		2 574 289
2	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		420 482
3	Russian (ru) Луч смерти		404 181
4	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		372 694
5	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		332 303
6	Japanese (ja) 殺人光線		231 209
7	Portuguese (pt) Raio da morte		198 011
8	Chinese (zh) 死光		125 249
9	Persian (fa) پرتو مرگ		75 691
10	Arabic (ar) شعاع الموت		30 813

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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 "Death ray" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Death ray		4 598
2	Russian (ru) Луч смерти		1 099
3	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		915
4	Japanese (ja) 殺人光線		769
5	Chinese (zh) 死光		647
6	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		494
7	Portuguese (pt) Raio da morte		377
8	Persian (fa) پرتو مرگ		140
9	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		120
10	Arabic (ar) شعاع الموت		114

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Death ray		179
2	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		73
3	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		51
4	Russian (ru) Луч смерти		37
5	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		22
6	Japanese (ja) 殺人光線		21
7	Portuguese (pt) Raio da morte		21
8	Norwegian (no) Dødsstråle		12
9	Chinese (zh) 死光		11
10	Arabic (ar) شعاع الموت		9

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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 "Death ray" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Death ray		1
2	Arabic (ar) شعاع الموت		0
3	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		0
4	Persian (fa) پرتو مرگ		0
5	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		0
6	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		0
7	Japanese (ja) 殺人光線		0
8	Korean (ko) 살인광선		0
9	Norwegian (no) Dødsstråle		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Raio da morte		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 "Death ray" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 死光		140
2	English (en) Death ray		84
3	Italian (it) Raggio della morte		52
4	French (fr) Rayon de la mort		43
5	Russian (ru) Луч смерти		28
6	Japanese (ja) 殺人光線		21
7	Portuguese (pt) Raio da morte		12
8	Spanish (es) Rayo de la muerte		10
9	Persian (fa) پرتو مرگ		7
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zraka smrti		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شعاع الموت
en	English Death ray
es	Spanish Rayo de la muerte
fa	Persian پرتو مرگ
fr	French Rayon de la mort
it	Italian Raggio della morte
ja	Japanese 殺人光線
ko	Korean 살인광선
no	Norwegian Dødsstråle
pt	Portuguese Raio da morte
ru	Russian Луч смерти
sh	Serbo-Croatian Zraka smrti
tr	Turkish Ölüm ışını
zh	Chinese 死光

Best Rank

English: #14756 01.2018

Global: #14137 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #3271 09.2003

Global: #9299 09.2003

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