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 39.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 8 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.

In June 2025 the article “Insertion sort” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Insertion sort”, its content was written by 354 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1409 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 815 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #367 in December 2001
• Global: #387 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5239 in December 2014
• Global: #8480 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, 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) Insertion sort		39.8531
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		35.9897
3	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		29.9169
4	Greek (el) Ταξινόμηση με εισαγωγή		27.4653
5	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		27.2405
6	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		26.1283
7	Turkish (tr) Eklemeli sıralama		21.1785
8	Korean (ko) 삽입 정렬		19.3173
9	French (fr) Tri par insertion		16.7249
10	German (de) Insertionsort		15.8444

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Insertion sort		8 628 682
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		1 094 917
3	German (de) Insertionsort		838 581
4	French (fr) Tri par insertion		687 446
5	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		672 808
6	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		589 414
7	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		575 507
8	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		493 361
9	Japanese (ja) 挿入ソート		457 776
10	Italian (it) Insertion sort		304 968

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		10 920
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		2 149
3	French (fr) Tri par insertion		1 399
4	German (de) Insertionsort		1 060
5	Japanese (ja) 挿入ソート		848
6	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		672
7	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		659
8	Italian (it) Insertion sort		634
9	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		465
10	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		388

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		354
2	German (de) Insertionsort		151
3	French (fr) Tri par insertion		100
4	Russian (ru) Сортировка вставками		88
5	Chinese (zh) 插入排序		85
6	Italian (it) Insertion sort		66
7	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		65
8	Portuguese (pt) Insertion sort		63
9	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por inserción		38
10	Hebrew (he) מיון הכנסה		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	English (en) Insertion sort		1
2	Hungarian (hu) Beszúrásos rendezés		1
3	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez wstawianie		1
4	Thai (th) การเรียงลำดับแบบแทรก		1
5	Arabic (ar) ترتيب بالإدراج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Əlavə etməklə nizamlama		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Сортиране чрез вмъкване		0
8	Czech (cs) Řazení vkládáním		0
9	Danish (da) Indsættelsessortering		0
10	German (de) Insertionsort		0

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

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