High-altitude nuclear explosion

High-altitude nuclear explosion - nuclear detonations in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere. Article “High-altitude nuclear explosion” in English Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.89 points.

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

Since the creation of article “High-altitude nuclear explosion”, its content was written by 108 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 211 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 201 times in English Wikipedia and cited 379 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22520 in October 2016
• Global: #47523 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #66972 in February 2008
• Global: #9564 in September 2017

There are 6 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	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		89
2	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		35.0398
3	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		29.7127
4	Italian (it) HANE		23.6626
5	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		21.6824
6	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		20.4986

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

The most popular language versions of the article "High-altitude nuclear explosion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		1 342 145
2	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		769 434
3	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		256 827
4	Italian (it) HANE		60 310
5	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		28 231
6	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		351

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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 "High-altitude nuclear explosion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		3 776
2	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		1 791
3	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		1 298
4	Italian (it) HANE		176
5	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		69
6	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		14

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

Language versions of the article "High-altitude nuclear explosion" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		108
2	Italian (it) HANE		36
3	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		32
4	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		30
5	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		3
6	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		2

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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 "High-altitude nuclear explosion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		0
2	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		0
3	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		0
4	Italian (it) HANE		0
5	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		0
6	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		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 "High-altitude nuclear explosion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) High-altitude nuclear explosion		201
2	Italian (it) HANE		125
3	Japanese (ja) 高高度核爆発		29
4	Russian (ru) Атмосферный ядерный взрыв		19
5	Catalan (ca) Explosió nuclear a gran altitud		3
6	Indonesian (id) High-altitude Nuclear Explosion		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Explosió nuclear a gran altitud
en	English High-altitude nuclear explosion
id	Indonesian High-altitude Nuclear Explosion
it	Italian HANE
ja	Japanese 高高度核爆発
ru	Russian Атмосферный ядерный взрыв

Best Rank

English: #66972 02.2008

Global: #9564 09.2017

Best Rank

English: #22520 10.2016

Global: #47523 10.2016

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