Introduction to general relativity

Quality:

Introduction to general relativity - non-technical introduction to the theory of gravity by Albert Einstein. Article "Introduction to general relativity" in English Wikipedia has 73.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 48 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Introduction to general relativity" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Introduction to general relativity", its content was written by 258 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 610 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 279 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1102 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #673 in April 2010
• Global: #6808 in April 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5587 in April 2010
• Global: #12607 in April 2010

There are 16 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	Portuguese (pt) Introdução à relatividade geral		84.7441
2	Persian (fa) آشنایی با نسبیت عام		79.521
3	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論入門		75.7823
4	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στη γενική σχετικότητα		75.6145
5	Thai (th) บทนำทฤษฎีสัมพัทธภาพทั่วไป		74.376
6	English (en) Introduction to general relativity		73.3107
7	Korean (ko) 일반상대론 개론		71.8835
8	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu thuyết tương đối rộng		68.3796
9	Catalan (ca) Introducció a la relativitat general		65.961
10	Turkish (tr) Genel göreliliğe giriş		65.2182

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Introduction to general relativity		1 548 080
2	Spanish (es) Introducción a la relatividad general		504 359
3	French (fr) Introduction à la relativité générale		255 613
4	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論入門		211 160
5	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu thuyết tương đối rộng		199 317
6	Persian (fa) آشنایی با نسبیت عام		154 652
7	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى النسبية العامة		96 613
8	Japanese (ja) 一般相対性理論の概説		66 876
9	Thai (th) บทนำทฤษฎีสัมพัทธภาพทั่วไป		41 891
10	Korean (ko) 일반상대론 개론		39 584

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) Introduction to general relativity		4 593
2	French (fr) Introduction à la relativité générale		775
3	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論入門		497
4	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu thuyết tương đối rộng		397
5	Japanese (ja) 一般相対性理論の概説		294
6	Spanish (es) Introducción a la relatividad general		242
7	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى النسبية العامة		235
8	Persian (fa) آشنایی با نسبیت عام		222
9	Korean (ko) 일반상대론 개론		131
10	Portuguese (pt) Introdução à relatividade geral		109

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Introduction to general relativity		258
2	French (fr) Introduction à la relativité générale		71
3	Spanish (es) Introducción a la relatividad general		65
4	Persian (fa) آشنایی با نسبیت عام		43
5	Chinese (zh) 廣義相對論入門		38
6	Vietnamese (vi) Giới thiệu thuyết tương đối rộng		29
7	Korean (ko) 일반상대론 개론		22
8	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στη γενική σχετικότητα		19
9	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى النسبية العامة		18
10	Turkish (tr) Genel göreliliğe giriş		14

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) Introduction to general relativity		1
2	Korean (ko) 일반상대론 개론		1
3	Turkish (tr) Genel göreliliğe giriş		1
4	Arabic (ar) مدخل إلى النسبية العامة		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Въведение в общата теория на относителността		0
6	Catalan (ca) Introducció a la relativitat general		0
7	Greek (el) Εισαγωγή στη γενική σχετικότητα		0
8	Spanish (es) Introducción a la relatividad general		0
9	Persian (fa) آشنایی با نسبیت عام		0
10	French (fr) Introduction à la relativité générale		0

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

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