Optical rotation

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Optical rotation

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Optical rotation - rotation of the plane of linearly polarized light as it travels through a chiral material. Article "Optical rotation" in English Wikipedia has 51.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Optical rotation", its content was written by 180 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 599 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 443 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1824 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4528 in February 2002
  • Global: #5274 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #38456 in October 2014
  • Global: #37286 in November 2008

There are 28 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
1English (en)
Optical rotation
51.7953
2Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
34.5924
3Catalan (ca)
Activitat òptica
31.1435
4German (de)
Optische Aktivität
26.2562
5Finnish (fi)
Optinen aktiivisuus
23.6244
6Tamil (ta)
ஒளியியல் சுழற்சி
23.5361
7Bulgarian (bg)
Оптична активност
23.1175
8Slovenian (sl)
Optična aktivnost
19.6923
9Thai (th)
การหมุนเชิงแสง
18.8572
10Japanese (ja)
旋光
16.6578
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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 "Optical rotation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Optical rotation
3 117 898
2German (de)
Optische Aktivität
715 294
3Japanese (ja)
旋光
581 171
4French (fr)
Pouvoir rotatoire
443 256
5Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
376 764
6Polish (pl)
Aktywność optyczna
265 504
7Russian (ru)
Вращение плоскости поляризации
177 994
8Chinese (zh)
旋光
99 336
9Czech (cs)
Optická otáčivost
97 115
10Arabic (ar)
تدوير ضوئي
51 167
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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 "Optical rotation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Optical rotation
6 153
2German (de)
Optische Aktivität
808
3Japanese (ja)
旋光
752
4French (fr)
Pouvoir rotatoire
493
5Chinese (zh)
旋光
358
6Russian (ru)
Вращение плоскости поляризации
315
7Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
282
8Czech (cs)
Optická otáčivost
188
9Polish (pl)
Aktywność optyczna
168
10Korean (ko)
광학 활성
140
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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 "Optical rotation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Optical rotation
180
2German (de)
Optische Aktivität
103
3French (fr)
Pouvoir rotatoire
65
4Dutch (nl)
Optische rotatie
33
5Polish (pl)
Aktywność optyczna
28
6Japanese (ja)
旋光
24
7Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
23
8Czech (cs)
Optická otáčivost
21
9Ukrainian (uk)
Оптична активність
15
10Chinese (zh)
旋光
14
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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 "Optical rotation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Optische Aktivität
1
2Arabic (ar)
تدوير ضوئي
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Оптична активност
0
4Catalan (ca)
Activitat òptica
0
5Czech (cs)
Optická otáčivost
0
6English (en)
Optical rotation
0
7Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
0
8Estonian (et)
Optiline aktiivsus
0
9Persian (fa)
چرخش نوری
0
10Finnish (fi)
Optinen aktiivisuus
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 "Optical rotation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Optical rotation
443
2Finnish (fi)
Optinen aktiivisuus
206
3Japanese (ja)
旋光
193
4German (de)
Optische Aktivität
189
5French (fr)
Pouvoir rotatoire
174
6Czech (cs)
Optická otáčivost
63
7Polish (pl)
Aktywność optyczna
63
8Spanish (es)
Actividad óptica
54
9Persian (fa)
چرخش نوری
50
10Chinese (zh)
旋光
50
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تدوير ضوئي
bgBulgarian
Оптична активност
caCatalan
Activitat òptica
csCzech
Optická otáčivost
deGerman
Optische Aktivität
enEnglish
Optical rotation
esSpanish
Actividad óptica
etEstonian
Optiline aktiivsus
faPersian
چرخش نوری
fiFinnish
Optinen aktiivisuus
frFrench
Pouvoir rotatoire
huHungarian
Optikai aktivitás
hyArmenian
Օպտիկական ակտիվություն
jaJapanese
旋光
koKorean
광학 활성
nlDutch
Optische rotatie
plPolish
Aktywność optyczna
roRomanian
Activitate optică
ruRussian
Вращение плоскости поляризации
shSerbo-Croatian
Optička rotacija
slSlovenian
Optična aktivnost
srSerbian
Optička rotacija
svSwedish
Optisk rotation
taTamil
ஒளியியல் சுழற்சி
thThai
การหมุนเชิงแสง
ukUkrainian
Оптична активність
uzUzbek
Qutblanish tekisligining aylanishi
zhChinese
旋光

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#38456
10.2014
Global:
#37286
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4528
02.2002
Global:
#5274
02.2002

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 Optical rotation from Wikipedia articles about Inverted sugar syrup, Enantiomer, Chirality, Invert sugar and Faraday effect. Whereas reading the article about Optical rotation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Polarization, Chirality, Specific rotation, Birefringence and Polarimeter.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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