Infrared dark cloud

Infrared dark cloud - cold, dense region of a giant molecular cloud. Article “Infrared dark cloud” in English Wikipedia has 34.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.81 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Infrared dark cloud”, its content was written by 11 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 19 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in English Wikipedia and cited 514 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #127337 in April 2024
• Global: #233957 in September 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #836610 in February 2011
• Global: #1382977 in February 2011

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	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		38.8357
2	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		34.4315
3	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		31.8343
4	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		29.1914
5	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		26.2819
6	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		23.0087

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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 dark cloud" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		34 895
2	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		4 866
3	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		2 110
4	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		1 977
5	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		1 776
6	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		1 540

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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 dark cloud" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		50
2	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		41
3	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		6
4	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		6
5	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		4
6	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		3

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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 dark cloud" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		11
2	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		2
3	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		2
4	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		1
6	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		1

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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 dark cloud" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		0
2	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		0
3	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		0
4	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		0
6	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		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 dark cloud" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Arabic (ar) سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء		212
2	Chinese (zh) 紅外暗雲		163
3	Portuguese (pt) Nuvem escura de infravermelho		132
4	English (en) Infrared dark cloud		6
5	Japanese (ja) 赤外暗黒雲		1
6	Spanish (es) Nube oscura infrarroja		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سحابة داكنة تحت حمراء
en	English Infrared dark cloud
es	Spanish Nube oscura infrarroja
ja	Japanese 赤外暗黒雲
pt	Portuguese Nuvem escura de infravermelho
zh	Chinese 紅外暗雲

Best Rank

English: #836610 02.2011

Global: #1382977 02.2011

Best Rank

English: #127337 04.2024

Global: #233957 09.2017

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