Kerr effect

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Kerr effect

Quality:

Kerr effect - change in refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric field. Article “Kerr effect” in English Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Kerr effect”, its content was written by 65 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 410 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 130 times in English Wikipedia and cited 536 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #7338 in May 2002
  • Global: #8753 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84147 in April 2015
  • Global: #91991 in January 2015

There are 27 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Catalan (ca)
Efecte Kerr
35.5772
2Chinese (zh)
克爾效应
33.2353
3English (en)
Kerr effect
27.4916
4Swedish (sv)
Kerreffekt
26.1234
5Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Kerreffekt
25.7675
6Spanish (es)
Efecto Kerr
25.1083
7Russian (ru)
Эффект Керра
24.4245
8Basque (eu)
Kerr efektua
23.2222
9Uzbek (uz)
Kerra effekti
22.1488
10Danish (da)
Kerr-effekt
19.2834
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Kerr effect" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kerr effect
1 119 435
2German (de)
Kerr-Effekt
209 568
3Russian (ru)
Эффект Керра
197 062
4Japanese (ja)
カー効果
138 320
5Polish (pl)
Zjawiska Kerra
100 304
6Chinese (zh)
克爾效应
87 916
7French (fr)
Effet Kerr
82 791
8Spanish (es)
Efecto Kerr
54 269
9Portuguese (pt)
Efeito Kerr
32 629
10Italian (it)
Effetto Kerr
26 996
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Kerr effect" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kerr effect
4 288
2Russian (ru)
Эффект Керра
616
3German (de)
Kerr-Effekt
489
4Japanese (ja)
カー効果
405
5Chinese (zh)
克爾效应
383
6French (fr)
Effet Kerr
257
7Polish (pl)
Zjawiska Kerra
214
8Spanish (es)
Efecto Kerr
212
9Italian (it)
Effetto Kerr
103
10Korean (ko)
커 효과
90
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Kerr effect" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Kerr-Effekt
65
2English (en)
Kerr effect
65
3Russian (ru)
Эффект Керра
47
4French (fr)
Effet Kerr
35
5Italian (it)
Effetto Kerr
22
6Polish (pl)
Zjawiska Kerra
18
7Japanese (ja)
カー効果
16
8Dutch (nl)
Kerreffect
16
9Vietnamese (vi)
Hiệu ứng Kerr
13
10Arabic (ar)
ظاهرة كير
12
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Kerr effect" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
ظاهرة كير
0
2Belarusian (be)
Эфект Кера
0
3Catalan (ca)
Efecte Kerr
0
4Danish (da)
Kerr-effekt
0
5German (de)
Kerr-Effekt
0
6English (en)
Kerr effect
0
7Spanish (es)
Efecto Kerr
0
8Basque (eu)
Kerr efektua
0
9Persian (fa)
اثر کر
0
10French (fr)
Effet Kerr
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Kerr effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Kerr effect
130
2German (de)
Kerr-Effekt
51
3Russian (ru)
Эффект Керра
43
4French (fr)
Effet Kerr
37
5Chinese (zh)
克爾效应
32
6Ukrainian (uk)
Ефект Керра
25
7Spanish (es)
Efecto Kerr
22
8Polish (pl)
Zjawiska Kerra
22
9Japanese (ja)
カー効果
21
10Italian (it)
Effetto Kerr
17
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ظاهرة كير
beBelarusian
Эфект Кера
caCatalan
Efecte Kerr
daDanish
Kerr-effekt
deGerman
Kerr-Effekt
enEnglish
Kerr effect
esSpanish
Efecto Kerr
euBasque
Kerr efektua
faPersian
اثر کر
frFrench
Effet Kerr
hyArmenian
Քերի երևույթ
itItalian
Effetto Kerr
jaJapanese
カー効果
koKorean
커 효과
nlDutch
Kerreffect
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Kerreffekt
plPolish
Zjawiska Kerra
ptPortuguese
Efeito Kerr
roRomanian
Efectul Kerr
ruRussian
Эффект Керра
slSlovenian
Kerrov pojav
srSerbian
Керов ефекат
svSwedish
Kerreffekt
ukUkrainian
Ефект Керра
uzUzbek
Kerra effekti
viVietnamese
Hiệu ứng Kerr
zhChinese
克爾效应

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#84147
04.2015
Global:
#91991
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7338
05.2002
Global:
#8753
05.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Kerr effect from Wikipedia articles about Pockels effect, Nonlinear optics, Self-phase modulation, Thermal blooming and Rapatronic camera. Whereas reading the article about Kerr effect people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pockels effect, Magneto-optic Kerr effect, John Kerr, Birefringence and Self-focusing.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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