Needle ice

Needle ice - ice column formed when liquid groundwater rises into freezing air. Article “Needle ice” in English Wikipedia has 41.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 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 “Needle ice”, its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 197 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 84 times in English Wikipedia and cited 436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24051 in March 2017
• Global: #70826 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #57976 in December 2019
• Global: #89116 in December 2019

There are 14 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) Needle ice		41.4873
2	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		32.9919
3	Russian (ru) Игольчатый лед		32.5787
4	Swedish (sv) Pipkrake		30.1796
5	Polish (pl) Lód włóknisty		26.5468
6	Hungarian (hu) Tűjég		24.0988
7	Serbian (sr) Игличасти лед		21.7771
8	Greek (el) Παγοβελόνες		21.7087
9	Arabic (ar) إبر الجليد		19.9235
10	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		19.3026

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Needle ice" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Needle ice		433 259
2	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		363 254
3	German (de) Kammeis		51 509
4	French (fr) Pipkrake		19 489
5	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		18 803
6	Swedish (sv) Pipkrake		16 112
7	Polish (pl) Lód włóknisty		15 441
8	Dutch (nl) Naaldijs		12 925
9	Russian (ru) Игольчатый лед		9 016
10	Korean (ko) 서릿발		5 717

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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 "Needle ice" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Needle ice		879
2	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		318
3	German (de) Kammeis		126
4	Russian (ru) Игольчатый лед		108
5	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		93
6	Korean (ko) 서릿발		91
7	Swedish (sv) Pipkrake		32
8	Polish (pl) Lód włóknisty		28
9	French (fr) Pipkrake		21
10	Greek (el) Παγοβελόνες		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Needle ice		61
2	German (de) Kammeis		32
3	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		24
4	French (fr) Pipkrake		15
5	Polish (pl) Lód włóknisty		15
6	Swedish (sv) Pipkrake		11
7	Hungarian (hu) Tűjég		8
8	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		7
9	Dutch (nl) Naaldijs		7
10	Arabic (ar) إبر الجليد		5

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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 "Needle ice" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) إبر الجليد		0
2	German (de) Kammeis		0
3	Greek (el) Παγοβελόνες		0
4	English (en) Needle ice		0
5	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		0
6	French (fr) Pipkrake		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Tűjég		0
8	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		0
9	Korean (ko) 서릿발		0
10	Dutch (nl) Naaldijs		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 "Needle ice" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 霜柱		199
2	English (en) Needle ice		84
3	Arabic (ar) إبر الجليد		51
4	Dutch (nl) Naaldijs		44
5	German (de) Kammeis		11
6	Swedish (sv) Pipkrake		10
7	Serbian (sr) Игличасти лед		9
8	French (fr) Pipkrake		8
9	Spanish (es) Pipkrake		6
10	Korean (ko) 서릿발		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إبر الجليد
de	German Kammeis
el	Greek Παγοβελόνες
en	English Needle ice
es	Spanish Pipkrake
fr	French Pipkrake
hu	Hungarian Tűjég
ja	Japanese 霜柱
ko	Korean 서릿발
nl	Dutch Naaldijs
pl	Polish Lód włóknisty
ru	Russian Игольчатый лед
sr	Serbian Игличасти лед
sv	Swedish Pipkrake

Best Rank

English: #57976 12.2019

Global: #89116 12.2019

Best Rank

English: #24051 03.2017

Global: #70826 02.2012

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