Impact crater

Impact crater - circular depression in a solid astronomical body formed by the impact of a smaller object. Article “Impact crater” in English Wikipedia has 76 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 51 references and 17 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Impact crater” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Impact crater”, its content was written by 403 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1975 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3066 times in English Wikipedia and cited 38417 times in all languages (4388^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #744 in September 2003
• Global: #1583 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22926 in January 2008
• Global: #14213 in February 2013

There are 51 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	Catalan (ca) Cràter d'impacte		83.5408
2	English (en) Impact crater		75.9835
3	Chinese (zh) 撞击坑		74.9046
4	Hungarian (hu) Becsapódási kráter		53.8963
5	Turkish (tr) Çarpma krateri		53.2162
6	German (de) Einschlagkrater		49.9448
7	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		47.99
8	Simple English (simple) Impact crater		46.9647
9	Polish (pl) Krater uderzeniowy		42.0394
10	Finnish (fi) Törmäyskraatteri		41.5531

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Impact crater" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Impact crater		2 870 847
2	Japanese (ja) クレーター		1 100 640
3	Spanish (es) Cráter de impacto		698 440
4	German (de) Einschlagkrater		646 108
5	Russian (ru) Ударный кратер		605 230
6	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		421 390
7	Polish (pl) Krater uderzeniowy		291 283
8	Italian (it) Cratere meteoritico		227 227
9	Chinese (zh) 撞击坑		186 473
10	Dutch (nl) Inslagkrater		166 023

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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 "Impact crater" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Impact crater		5 872
2	Japanese (ja) クレーター		1 787
3	Russian (ru) Ударный кратер		1 319
4	German (de) Einschlagkrater		1 081
5	Spanish (es) Cráter de impacto		858
6	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		833
7	Chinese (zh) 撞击坑		748
8	Italian (it) Cratere meteoritico		487
9	Polish (pl) Krater uderzeniowy		439
10	Swedish (sv) Nedslagskrater		204

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Impact crater		403
2	German (de) Einschlagkrater		152
3	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		120
4	Russian (ru) Ударный кратер		112
5	Italian (it) Cratere meteoritico		96
6	Japanese (ja) クレーター		90
7	Dutch (nl) Inslagkrater		89
8	Finnish (fi) Törmäyskraatteri		72
9	Spanish (es) Cráter de impacto		70
10	Hungarian (hu) Becsapódási kráter		57

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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 "Impact crater" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Cráter de impacto		2
2	Catalan (ca) Cràter d'impacte		1
3	English (en) Impact crater		1
4	Persian (fa) دهانه برخوردی		1
5	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		1
6	Italian (it) Cratere meteoritico		1
7	Serbian (sr) Udarni krater		1
8	Swedish (sv) Nedslagskrater		1
9	Arabic (ar) فوهة صدمية		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Zərbə krateri		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 "Impact crater" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Cratere meteoritico		6 690
2	Chinese (zh) 撞击坑		3 887
3	Catalan (ca) Cràter d'impacte		3 325
4	English (en) Impact crater		3 066
5	Spanish (es) Cráter de impacto		2 526
6	French (fr) Cratère d'impact		2 466
7	Russian (ru) Ударный кратер		1 981
8	Swedish (sv) Nedslagskrater		1 897
9	German (de) Einschlagkrater		1 858
10	Persian (fa) دهانه برخوردی		1 457

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فوهة صدمية
az	Azerbaijani Zərbə krateri
be	Belarusian Астраблема
bg	Bulgarian Ударен кратер
ca	Catalan Cràter d'impacte
cs	Czech Impaktní kráter
da	Danish Nedslagskrater
de	German Einschlagkrater
el	Greek Κρατήρας πρόσκρουσης
en	English Impact crater
eo	Esperanto Alfrapa kratero
es	Spanish Cráter de impacto
et	Estonian Impaktstruktuur
eu	Basque Talka krater
fa	Persian دهانه برخوردی
fi	Finnish Törmäyskraatteri
fr	French Cratère d'impact
gl	Galician Cráter de impacto
he	Hebrew מכתש פגיעה
hi	Hindi प्रहार क्रेटर
hr	Croatian Udarni krater
hu	Hungarian Becsapódási kráter
hy	Armenian Հարվածային խառնարան
id	Indonesian Kawah tumbukan
it	Italian Cratere meteoritico
ja	Japanese クレーター
kk	Kazakh Метеориттік кратер
ko	Korean 충돌구
la	Latin Crater illisionis
lt	Lithuanian Smūginis krateris
ms	Malay Kawah hentaman
nl	Dutch Inslagkrater
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nedslagskrater
no	Norwegian Nedslagskrater
pl	Polish Krater uderzeniowy
pt	Portuguese Cratera de impacto
ro	Romanian Crater de impact
ru	Russian Ударный кратер
sh	Serbo-Croatian Udarni krater
simple	Simple English Impact crater
sk	Slovak Impaktný kráter
sl	Slovenian Udarni krater
sr	Serbian Udarni krater
sv	Swedish Nedslagskrater
ta	Tamil விண்கல் வீழ் பள்ளம்
tr	Turkish Çarpma krateri
uk	Ukrainian Метеоритний кратер
uz	Uzbek Zarba krateri
vi	Vietnamese Hố va chạm
zh	Chinese 撞击坑
zhminnan	Min Nan Chhiong-kek-khut

Best Rank

English: #22926 01.2008

Global: #14213 02.2013

Best Rank

English: #744 09.2003

Global: #1583 09.2001

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