Insertion sort

Quality:

Insertion sort - sorting algorithm that, at each iteration, inserts the current input element into the suitable position between the already sorted elements. Article “Insertion sort” in English Wikipedia has 41.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections.

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 “Insertion sort”, its content was written by 359 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1418 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 91 times in English Wikipedia and cited 766 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #367 in December 2001
• Global: #388 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5671 in December 2014
• Global: #8951 in December 2014

There are 36 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) Insertion sort		41.8783
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		36.0188
3	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		29.7863
4	Greek (el) Ταξινόμηση με εισαγωγή		27.5961
5	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		27.1637
6	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		26.1063
7	Turkish (tr) Eklemeli sıralama		21.231
8	Korean (ko) 삽입 정렬		19.3159
9	French (fr) Tri par insertion		16.7086
10	German (de) Insertionsort		15.714

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Insertion sort		8 760 048
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		1 150 879
3	German (de) Insertionsort		849 899
4	French (fr) Tri par insertion		707 870
5	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		679 196
6	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		599 328
7	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		579 175
8	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		500 408
9	Japanese (ja) 挿入ソート		466 297
10	Italian (it) Insertion sort		308 633

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Insertion sort		6 530
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		912
3	French (fr) Tri par insertion		895
4	German (de) Insertionsort		660
5	Japanese (ja) 挿入ソート		617
6	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		465
7	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		368
8	Korean (ko) 삽입 정렬		218
9	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		214
10	Italian (it) Insertion sort		197

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Insertion sort		359
2	German (de) Insertionsort		151
3	French (fr) Tri par insertion		100
4	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		87
5	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		86
6	Italian (it) Insertion sort		66
7	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		66
8	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		63
9	Hebrew (he) מיון הכנסה		39
10	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		38

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) מיון הכנסה		1
2	Arabic (ar) فرز بالإدراج		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Əlavə etməklə nizamlama		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Сортиране чрез вмъкване		0
5	Czech (cs) Řazení vkládáním		0
6	Danish (da) Indsættelsessortering		0
7	German (de) Insertionsort		0
8	Greek (el) Ταξινόμηση με εισαγωγή		0
9	English (en) Insertion sort		0
10	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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