Magnus effect

Magnus effect - sidewise force on a spinning object in a liquid or gas. Article “Magnus effect” in English Wikipedia has 73 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 18 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 “Magnus effect”, its content was written by 305 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1089 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 118 times in English Wikipedia and cited 593 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14142 in December 2008
• Global: #5181 in July 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2695 in July 2015
• Global: #2288 in July 2015

There are 35 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) Magnus effect		72.9503
2	French (fr) Effet Magnus		59.0666
3	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		45.3305
4	Hebrew (he) אפקט מגנוס		36.2073
5	Slovak (sk) Magnusov jav		34.6088
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ефект на Магнус		26.1795
7	Belarusian (be) Эфект Магнуса		25.3078
8	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		23.5857
9	Russian (ru) Эффект Магнуса		22.918
10	Chinese (zh) 马格努斯效应		21.3154

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Magnus effect" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magnus effect		3 898 925
2	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		994 882
3	Japanese (ja) マグヌス効果		798 404
4	Russian (ru) Эффект Магнуса		655 772
5	French (fr) Effet Magnus		634 040
6	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		536 626
7	Italian (it) Effetto Magnus		393 715
8	Chinese (zh) 马格努斯效应		291 120
9	Polish (pl) Efekt Magnusa		261 471
10	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Magnus		162 781

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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 "Magnus effect" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magnus effect		10 743
2	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		3 542
3	French (fr) Effet Magnus		2 901
4	Japanese (ja) マグヌス効果		1 597
5	Russian (ru) Эффект Магнуса		1 090
6	Chinese (zh) 马格努斯效应		1 074
7	Italian (it) Effetto Magnus		955
8	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		767
9	Polish (pl) Efekt Magnusa		634
10	Korean (ko) 마그누스 효과		591

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

Language versions of the article "Magnus effect" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magnus effect		305
2	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		143
3	French (fr) Effet Magnus		108
4	Italian (it) Effetto Magnus		58
5	Japanese (ja) マグヌス効果		47
6	Russian (ru) Эффект Магнуса		43
7	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		32
8	Polish (pl) Efekt Magnusa		32
9	Chinese (zh) 马格努斯效应		32
10	Dutch (nl) Magnuseffect		29

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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 "Magnus effect" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تأثير ماغنوس		0
2	Belarusian (be) Эфект Магнуса		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Ефект на Магнус		0
4	Catalan (ca) Efecte Magnus		0
5	Czech (cs) Magnusův jev		0
6	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		0
7	Greek (el) Φαινόμενο Μάγκνους		0
8	English (en) Magnus effect		0
9	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		0
10	Basque (eu) Magnus efektua		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 "Magnus effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Magnus effect		118
2	French (fr) Effet Magnus		52
3	German (de) Magnus-Effekt		50
4	Japanese (ja) マグヌス効果		43
5	Italian (it) Effetto Magnus		35
6	Spanish (es) Efecto Magnus		30
7	Russian (ru) Эффект Магнуса		25
8	Dutch (nl) Magnuseffect		24
9	Polish (pl) Efekt Magnusa		21
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект Магнуса		19

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تأثير ماغنوس
be	Belarusian Эфект Магнуса
bg	Bulgarian Ефект на Магнус
ca	Catalan Efecte Magnus
cs	Czech Magnusův jev
de	German Magnus-Effekt
el	Greek Φαινόμενο Μάγκνους
en	English Magnus effect
es	Spanish Efecto Magnus
eu	Basque Magnus efektua
fa	Persian اثر مگنوس
fi	Finnish Magnuksen ilmiö
fr	French Effet Magnus
gl	Galician Efecto Magnus
he	Hebrew אפקט מגנוס
hi	Hindi मैगनस प्रभाव
hu	Hungarian Magnus-effektus
id	Indonesian Efek Magnus
it	Italian Effetto Magnus
ja	Japanese マグヌス効果
kk	Kazakh Магнус эффектісі
ko	Korean 마그누스 효과
nl	Dutch Magnuseffect
no	Norwegian Magnuseffekt
pl	Polish Efekt Magnusa
pt	Portuguese Efeito Magnus
ro	Romanian Efectul Magnus
ru	Russian Эффект Магнуса
sk	Slovak Magnusov jav
sr	Serbian Magnusov efekat
sv	Swedish Magnuseffekten
tr	Turkish Magnus etkisi
uk	Ukrainian Ефект Магнуса
vi	Vietnamese Hiệu ứng Magnus
zh	Chinese 马格努斯效应

Best Rank

English: #2695 07.2015

Global: #2288 07.2015

Best Rank

English: #14142 12.2008

Global: #5181 07.2015

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