Heavy metals

Quality:

Heavy metal - loosely defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties. Article “Heavy metals” in English Wikipedia has 83 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 175 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.37 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Heavy metals” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Heavy metals”, its content was written by 177 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1327 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1525 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9153 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1506 in November 2016
• Global: #640 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8308 in November 2016
• Global: #9180 in November 2016

There are 44 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	Chinese (zh) 重金属		97.2077
2	Indonesian (id) Logam berat		96.9318
3	Vietnamese (vi) Kim loại nặng		93.9039
4	English (en) Heavy metals		82.979
5	Arabic (ar) فلز ثقيل		66.4505
6	Estonian (et) Raskmetallid		60.2089
7	French (fr) Élément-trace métallique		58.9668
8	Finnish (fi) Raskasmetalli		52.0025
9	Italian (it) Metallo pesante		51.1409
10	German (de) Schwermetalle		49.5725

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heavy metals		4 620 247
2	German (de) Schwermetalle		2 055 466
3	Spanish (es) Metal pesado		1 897 148
4	Japanese (ja) 重金属		948 042
5	Russian (ru) Тяжёлые металлы		924 858
6	French (fr) Élément-trace métallique		671 786
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal pesado		590 627
8	Polish (pl) Metale ciężkie		573 363
9	Chinese (zh) 重金属		355 063
10	Swedish (sv) Tungmetall		296 875

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) Heavy metals		8 000
2	German (de) Schwermetalle		2 680
3	Russian (ru) Тяжёлые металлы		1 627
4	Japanese (ja) 重金属		1 558
5	Spanish (es) Metal pesado		770
6	Chinese (zh) 重金属		728
7	French (fr) Élément-trace métallique		699
8	Polish (pl) Metale ciężkie		622
9	Swedish (sv) Tungmetall		502
10	Italian (it) Metallo pesante		433

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schwermetalle		198
2	English (en) Heavy metals		177
3	French (fr) Élément-trace métallique		136
4	Spanish (es) Metal pesado		81
5	Russian (ru) Тяжёлые металлы		51
6	Chinese (zh) 重金属		50
7	Dutch (nl) Zwaar metaal		45
8	Italian (it) Metallo pesante		43
9	Danish (da) Tungmetal		41
10	Portuguese (pt) Metal pesado		39

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) Heavy metals		6
2	French (fr) Élément-trace métallique		2
3	Russian (ru) Тяжёлые металлы		2
4	Indonesian (id) Logam berat		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Важкі метали		1
6	Arabic (ar) فلز ثقيل		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ağır metallar		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Тежки метали		0
9	Catalan (ca) Metall pesant		0
10	Czech (cs) Těžké kovy		0

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

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