Infrared astronomy

Infrared astronomy - observational astronomy of emissions over the wavelength band 0.75 to 300 micrometers. Article “Infrared astronomy” in English Wikipedia has 53.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.82 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Infrared astronomy”, its content was written by 94 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 524 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 498 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1069 in June 2002
• Global: #1391 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #82211 in July 2022
• Global: #93278 in July 2022

There are 35 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	English (en) Infrared astronomy		53.6683
2	Turkish (tr) Kızılötesi astronomi		49.1007
3	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		44.9506
4	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên văn học hồng ngoại		35.9194
5	Romanian (ro) Astronomie în infraroșu		34.3674
6	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		30.9716
7	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی فروسرخ		29.6423
8	Indonesian (id) Astronomi inframerah		26.4789
9	Tamil (ta) அகச்சிவப்பு வானியல்		22.6013
10	Croatian (hr) Infracrvena astronomija		22.3817

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Infrared astronomy" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared astronomy		546 474
2	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		132 012
3	Japanese (ja) 赤外線天文学		84 342
4	Spanish (es) Astronomía infrarroja		62 621
5	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		56 320
6	Italian (it) Astronomia dell'infrarosso		47 345
7	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная астрономия		31 027
8	Chinese (zh) 红外天文学		29 971
9	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی فروسرخ		28 884
10	Polish (pl) Astronomia podczerwona		28 320

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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 "Infrared astronomy" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared astronomy		784
2	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		200
3	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		147
4	Chinese (zh) 红外天文学		100
5	Japanese (ja) 赤外線天文学		97
6	Spanish (es) Astronomía infrarroja		74
7	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная астрономия		74
8	Italian (it) Astronomia dell'infrarosso		65
9	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی فروسرخ		47
10	Dutch (nl) Infraroodastronomie		39

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		94
2	English (en) Infrared astronomy		94
3	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		42
4	Italian (it) Astronomia dell'infrarosso		39
5	Dutch (nl) Infraroodastronomie		31
6	Spanish (es) Astronomía infrarroja		28
7	Japanese (ja) 赤外線天文学		23
8	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная астрономия		18
9	Czech (cs) Infračervená astronomie		13
10	Finnish (fi) Infrapunatähtitiede		12

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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 "Infrared astronomy" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Astronomia infraroja		1
2	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		1
3	Arabic (ar) علم فلك الأشعة تحت الحمراء		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Инфрачервена астрономия		0
5	Czech (cs) Infračervená astronomie		0
6	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		0
7	Greek (el) Αστρονομία υπέρυθρης ακτινοβολίας		0
8	English (en) Infrared astronomy		0
9	Spanish (es) Astronomía infrarroja		0
10	Estonian (et) Infrapunaastronoomia		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 "Infrared astronomy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Infrared astronomy		498
2	Arabic (ar) علم فلك الأشعة تحت الحمراء		317
3	French (fr) Astronomie infrarouge		312
4	Japanese (ja) 赤外線天文学		149
5	German (de) Infrarotastronomie		140
6	Dutch (nl) Infraroodastronomie		132
7	Chinese (zh) 红外天文学		120
8	Italian (it) Astronomia dell'infrarosso		101
9	Polish (pl) Astronomia podczerwona		78
10	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная астрономия		77

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic علم فلك الأشعة تحت الحمراء
bg	Bulgarian Инфрачервена астрономия
ca	Catalan Astronomia infraroja
cs	Czech Infračervená astronomie
de	German Infrarotastronomie
el	Greek Αστρονομία υπέρυθρης ακτινοβολίας
en	English Infrared astronomy
es	Spanish Astronomía infrarroja
et	Estonian Infrapunaastronoomia
fa	Persian اخترشناسی فروسرخ
fi	Finnish Infrapunatähtitiede
fr	French Astronomie infrarouge
hr	Croatian Infracrvena astronomija
id	Indonesian Astronomi inframerah
it	Italian Astronomia dell'infrarosso
ja	Japanese 赤外線天文学
ko	Korean 적외선천문학
nl	Dutch Infraroodastronomie
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Infraraud astronomi
no	Norwegian Infrarød astronomi
pl	Polish Astronomia podczerwona
pt	Portuguese Astronomia infravermelha
ro	Romanian Astronomie în infraroșu
ru	Russian Инфракрасная астрономия
sh	Serbo-Croatian Infracrvena astronomija
sk	Slovak Infračervená astronómia
sr	Serbian Инфрацрвена астрономија
ta	Tamil அகச்சிவப்பு வானியல்
th	Thai ดาราศาสตร์อินฟราเรด
tr	Turkish Kızılötesi astronomi
uk	Ukrainian Інфрачервона астрономія
ur	Urdu زیریں سرخ فلکیات
uz	Uzbek Infraqizil astronomiya
vi	Vietnamese Thiên văn học hồng ngoại
zh	Chinese 红外天文学

Best Rank

English: #82211 07.2022

Global: #93278 07.2022

Best Rank

English: #1069 06.2002

Global: #1391 06.2002

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