General relativity

Quality:

General relativity - standard and classical physics theory of gravity and space. Article “General relativity” in English Wikipedia has 89.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 223 references and 44 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9197^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 5836^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4100^th most popular in all topics.

The 2582^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4006^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “General relativity” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 32 authors in all languages (4006^th place).

Since the creation of article “General relativity”, its content was written by 1071 registered users of English Wikipedia (5836^th place) and edited by 4712 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2582^nd place).

The article is cited 2444 times in English Wikipedia and cited 19089 times in all languages (9065^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #178 in June 2003
• Global: #392 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1646 in November 2014
• Global: #899 in February 2016

There are 54 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	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הכללית		100
2	Latin (la) Relativitas generalis		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Relatividade geral		97.6289
4	Ukrainian (uk) Загальна теорія відносності		97.4484
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thuyết tương đối rộng		91.3266
6	Swedish (sv) Allmänna relativitetsteorin		91.2279
7	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論		91.06
8	Romanian (ro) Teoria relativității generale		90.8078
9	Hungarian (hu) Általános relativitáselmélet		90
10	Czech (cs) Obecná teorie relativity		89.9734

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) General relativity		15 248 569
2	Russian (ru) Общая теория относительности		4 761 337
3	Spanish (es) Relatividad general		4 094 005
4	Japanese (ja) 一般相対性理論		3 022 106
5	German (de) Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie		2 433 090
6	French (fr) Relativité générale		2 328 282
7	Portuguese (pt) Relatividade geral		1 793 473
8	Italian (it) Relatività generale		1 666 217
9	Polish (pl) Ogólna teoria względności		1 571 452
10	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論		1 477 188

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) General relativity		31 961
2	Russian (ru) Общая теория относительности		7 403
3	Japanese (ja) 一般相対性理論		4 531
4	German (de) Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie		4 269
5	French (fr) Relativité générale		3 596
6	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論		3 315
7	Spanish (es) Relatividad general		2 678
8	Italian (it) Relatività generale		2 063
9	Polish (pl) Ogólna teoria względności		1 949
10	Portuguese (pt) Relatividade geral		1 593

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) General relativity		1 071
2	German (de) Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie		404
3	French (fr) Relativité générale		321
4	Russian (ru) Общая теория относительности		218
5	Spanish (es) Relatividad general		214
6	Italian (it) Relatività generale		195
7	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הכללית		147
8	Japanese (ja) 一般相対性理論		136
9	Dutch (nl) Algemene relativiteitstheorie		120
10	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論		116

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	English (en) General relativity		6
2	Czech (cs) Obecná teorie relativity		4
3	German (de) Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie		4
4	French (fr) Relativité générale		4
5	Spanish (es) Relatividad general		3
6	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הכללית		2
7	Armenian (hy) Հարաբերականության ընդհանուր տեսություն		2
8	Ukrainian (uk) Загальна теорія відносності		2
9	Arabic (ar) النسبية العامة		1
10	Catalan (ca) Relativitat general		1

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

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