Hikari (train)

Hikari - Japanese high-speed train service. Article “Hikari (train)” in English Wikipedia has 57.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

In June 2025 the article “Hikari (train)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hikari (train)”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 183 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1071 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11636 in February 2004
• Global: #4382 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74648 in October 2022
• Global: #65371 in March 2008

There are 7 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	English (en) Hikari (train)		57.228
2	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		55.7605
3	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		55.7339
4	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		36.967
5	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		21.494
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		10.403
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		4.841

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hikari (train)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		1 710 402
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		803 123
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		153 319
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		42 841
5	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		13 633
6	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		11 431
7	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		8 220

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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 "Hikari (train)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		5 696
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		4 296
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		1 356
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		142
5	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		92
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		53
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		184
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		68
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		33
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		21
5	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		6
6	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		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 "Hikari (train)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hikari (train)		2
2	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		1
3	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		0
4	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		0
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		0
7	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		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 "Hikari (train)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		457
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		183
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		151
4	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		114
5	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		100
6	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		38
7	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		28

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#	Language	Value
en	English Hikari (train)
fr	French Hikari (Shinkansen)
ja	Japanese ひかり (列車)
ko	Korean 히카리 (열차)
pt	Portuguese Hikari (Shinkansen)
th	Thai ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)
zh	Chinese 光號列車

Best Rank

English: #74648 10.2022

Global: #65371 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #11636 02.2004

Global: #4382 09.2003

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