Fracking

Quality:

Hydraulic fracturing - well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a hydraulically pressurized liquid. Article “Fracking” in English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 305 references and 40 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Fracking” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fracking”, its content was written by 816 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1981 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1043 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2435 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #220 in April 2014
• Global: #693 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #717 in August 2013
• Global: #1786 in July 2014

There are 37 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	German (de) Hydraulic Fracturing		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Fraturamento hidráulico		100
3	Spanish (es) Fracturación hidráulica		96.2838
4	English (en) Fracking		94.8929
5	Arabic (ar) تصديع مائي		92.1739
6	Chinese (zh) 水力压裂		81.0941
7	French (fr) Fracturation hydraulique		75.9858
8	Swedish (sv) Hydraulisk spräckning		54.9764
9	Ukrainian (uk) Гідравлічний розрив пластів		52.2751
10	Catalan (ca) Fracturació hidràulica		48.0443

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fracking		13 002 556
2	Spanish (es) Fracturación hidráulica		2 638 957
3	German (de) Hydraulic Fracturing		2 541 405
4	Russian (ru) Гидравлический разрыв пласта		1 115 220
5	Italian (it) Fratturazione idraulica		501 782
6	French (fr) Fracturation hydraulique		475 503
7	Chinese (zh) 水力压裂		220 748
8	Portuguese (pt) Fraturamento hidráulico		163 752
9	Dutch (nl) Fracking		158 409
10	Swedish (sv) Hydraulisk spräckning		142 694

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) Fracking		19 098
2	Spanish (es) Fracturación hidráulica		8 055
3	German (de) Hydraulic Fracturing		2 087
4	Russian (ru) Гидравлический разрыв пласта		1 476
5	Chinese (zh) 水力压裂		1 288
6	French (fr) Fracturation hydraulique		906
7	Italian (it) Fratturazione idraulica		586
8	Portuguese (pt) Fraturamento hidráulico		315
9	Czech (cs) Hydraulické štěpení		314
10	Dutch (nl) Fracking		305

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fracking		816
2	German (de) Hydraulic Fracturing		370
3	French (fr) Fracturation hydraulique		124
4	Spanish (es) Fracturación hidráulica		108
5	Italian (it) Fratturazione idraulica		68
6	Russian (ru) Гидравлический разрыв пласта		60
7	Dutch (nl) Fracking		53
8	Swedish (sv) Hydraulisk spräckning		29
9	Chinese (zh) 水力压裂		27
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гідравлічний розрив пластів		26

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	Arabic (ar) تصديع مائي		1
2	English (en) Fracking		1
3	Basque (eu) Haustura hidrauliko		1
4	French (fr) Fracturation hydraulique		1
5	Lithuanian (lt) Hidraulinis ardymas		1
6	Romanian (ro) Fracturare hidraulică		1
7	Swedish (sv) Hydraulisk spräckning		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Hidravlik parçalama üsulu		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Хидравлично разбиване		0
10	Catalan (ca) Fracturació hidràulica		0

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

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