Friction

Quality:

Friction - force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. Article “Friction” in English Wikipedia has 78.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 163 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.83 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8876^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8898^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3383^rd most popular in all topics.

The 5017^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Friction” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Friction”, its content was written by 870 registered users of English Wikipedia (8898^th place) and edited by 3534 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5017^th place).

The article is cited 1508 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #326 in September 2001
• Global: #404 in January 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1717 in October 2008
• Global: #1026 in October 2014

There are 53 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	Japanese (ja) 摩擦		78.9492
2	English (en) Friction		78.3714
3	Estonian (et) Hõõre		71.2663
4	Tamil (ta) உராய்வு		59.4209
5	Croatian (hr) Trenje		49.8308
6	Russian (ru) Трение		49.2224
7	Portuguese (pt) Atrito		46.0974
8	Serbian (sr) Трење		44.0081
9	Hindi (hi) घर्षण		43.4758
10	Armenian (hy) Շփում (ֆիզիկա)		42.9867

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friction		14 781 120
2	Spanish (es) Fricción		8 388 132
3	German (de) Reibung		2 544 987
4	Japanese (ja) 摩擦		2 107 616
5	Russian (ru) Трение		2 054 468
6	Italian (it) Attrito		1 935 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Atrito		1 492 473
8	Arabic (ar) احتكاك		1 438 997
9	Thai (th) แรงเสียดทาน		1 233 364
10	Polish (pl) Tarcie (fizyka)		1 213 898

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) Friction		20 586
2	Spanish (es) Fricción		5 958
3	Russian (ru) Трение		3 789
4	Japanese (ja) 摩擦		2 820
5	Thai (th) แรงเสียดทาน		2 378
6	German (de) Reibung		2 296
7	French (fr) Frottement		2 121
8	Chinese (zh) 摩擦力		2 063
9	Italian (it) Attrito		1 975
10	Simple English (simple) Friction		1 826

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friction		870
2	German (de) Reibung		347
3	Italian (it) Attrito		185
4	Spanish (es) Fricción		179
5	Russian (ru) Трение		113
6	French (fr) Frottement		102
7	Turkish (tr) Sürtünme kuvveti		100
8	Japanese (ja) 摩擦		91
9	Portuguese (pt) Atrito		89
10	Dutch (nl) Wrijving		85

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	Romanian (ro) Frecare		3
2	Bulgarian (bg) Триене		1
3	German (de) Reibung		1
4	English (en) Friction		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Froto		1
6	Russian (ru) Трение		1
7	Swedish (sv) Friktion		1
8	Arabic (ar) احتكاك		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Sürtünmə		0
10	Belarusian (be) Сіла трэння		0

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

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