Glacier mass balance

Glacier mass balance - difference between accumulation and ablation. Article “Glacier mass balance” in English Wikipedia has 74.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 49 references and 31 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Glacier mass balance”, its content was written by 66 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 161 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 491 times in English Wikipedia and cited 647 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18152 in March 2014
• Global: #28574 in March 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10578 in September 2017
• Global: #27324 in September 2017

There are 9 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	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		86.1938
2	English (en) Glacier mass balance		74.6056
3	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		53.5309
4	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		45.3033
5	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		42.8111
6	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		35.5416
7	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		30.3463
8	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		29.6147
9	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		25.5269

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Glacier mass balance" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glacier mass balance		356 438
2	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		68 678
3	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		19 251
4	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		10 473
5	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		3 213
6	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		1 790
7	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		1 076
8	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		250
9	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		123

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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 "Glacier mass balance" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glacier mass balance		1 575
2	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		110
3	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		107
4	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		86
5	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		34
6	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		33
7	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		15
8	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		15
9	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Glacier mass balance		66
2	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		30
3	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		29
4	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		8
5	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		8
6	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		8
7	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		5
8	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		4
9	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		3

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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 "Glacier mass balance" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		5
2	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		1
3	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		1
4	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		0
5	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		0
6	English (en) Glacier mass balance		0
7	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		0
8	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		0
9	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		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 "Glacier mass balance" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Glacier mass balance		491
2	Italian (it) Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio		68
3	German (de) Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)		46
4	French (fr) Bilan de masse d'un glacier		17
5	Czech (cs) Hmotnostní bilance ledovce		8
6	Estonian (et) Massibilanss		7
7	Finnish (fi) Jäätikön massatase		7
8	Spanish (es) Balance de masa de un glaciar		3
9	Greek (el) Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα		0

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Hmotnostní bilance ledovce
de	German Massenbilanz (Glaziologie)
el	Greek Ισοζύγιο μάζας παγετώνα
en	English Glacier mass balance
es	Spanish Balance de masa de un glaciar
et	Estonian Massibilanss
fi	Finnish Jäätikön massatase
fr	French Bilan de masse d'un glacier
it	Italian Bilancio di massa del ghiacciaio

Best Rank

English: #10578 09.2017

Global: #27324 09.2017

Best Rank

English: #18152 03.2014

Global: #28574 03.2014

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