Operation Backfire (World War II)

Operation Backfire - 1945 British military scientific operation after World War II. Article “Operation Backfire (World War II)” in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.56 points.

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 “Operation Backfire (World War II)”, its content was written by 59 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 122 times in English Wikipedia and cited 167 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12614 in January 2005
• Global: #24956 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #217527 in July 2011
• Global: #334718 in July 2011

There are 6 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) Operation Backfire (World War II)		29.626
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		28.2487
3	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		25.1079
4	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		22.8279
5	French (fr) Opération Backfire		17.0247
6	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		6.0289

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Backfire (World War II)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Backfire (World War II)		282 753
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		70 889
3	French (fr) Opération Backfire		5 067
4	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		2 259
5	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		1 512
6	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		1 282

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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 "Operation Backfire (World War II)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Backfire (World War II)		1 280
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		251
3	French (fr) Opération Backfire		35
4	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		18
5	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		16
6	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		8

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

Language versions of the article "Operation Backfire (World War II)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Backfire (World War II)		59
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		51
3	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		9
4	French (fr) Opération Backfire		8
5	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		5
6	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		3

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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 "Operation Backfire (World War II)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		0
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		0
3	English (en) Operation Backfire (World War II)		0
4	French (fr) Opération Backfire		0
5	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		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 "Operation Backfire (World War II)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Operation Backfire (World War II)		122
2	German (de) Operation Backfire		21
3	French (fr) Opération Backfire		11
4	Portuguese (pt) Operação Backfire		8
5	Danish (da) Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)		3
6	Italian (it) Operazione Backfire		2

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Operation Backfire (2. verdenskrig)
de	German Operation Backfire
en	English Operation Backfire (World War II)
fr	French Opération Backfire
it	Italian Operazione Backfire
pt	Portuguese Operação Backfire

Best Rank

English: #217527 07.2011

Global: #334718 07.2011

Best Rank

English: #12614 01.2005

Global: #24956 01.2005

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