Physical oceanography

Physical oceanography - study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean. Article “Physical oceanography” in English Wikipedia has 62.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 24 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Physical oceanography”, its content was written by 130 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 352 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 716 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2998 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13416 in January 2006
• Global: #23745 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #57090 in June 2008
• Global: #87909 in June 2008

There are 22 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fysisk oseanografi		75.936
2	English (en) Physical oceanography		62.5063
3	Estonian (et) Merefüüsika		61.5314
4	Chinese (zh) 物理海洋学		51.4421
5	Greek (el) Φυσική ωκεανογραφία		38.1972
6	French (fr) Océanographie physique		36.752
7	Korean (ko) 물리해양학		36.2454
8	Turkish (tr) Fiziksel oşinografi		31.699
9	Spanish (es) Oceanografía física		30.1929
10	Japanese (ja) 海洋物理学		28.7767

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Physical oceanography" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Physical oceanography		562 518
2	Japanese (ja) 海洋物理学		53 718
3	French (fr) Océanographie physique		46 501
4	Spanish (es) Oceanografía física		33 668
5	Chinese (zh) 物理海洋学		30 811
6	Italian (it) Oceanografia fisica		27 777
7	Estonian (et) Merefüüsika		15 441
8	Polish (pl) Oceanografia fizyczna		12 728
9	Korean (ko) 물리해양학		11 643
10	Hebrew (he) אוקיינוגרפיה פיזיקלית		11 023

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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 "Physical oceanography" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Physical oceanography		2 402
2	French (fr) Océanographie physique		154
3	Italian (it) Oceanografia fisica		144
4	Japanese (ja) 海洋物理学		140
5	Chinese (zh) 物理海洋学		135
6	Spanish (es) Oceanografía física		126
7	Greek (el) Φυσική ωκεανογραφία		47
8	Arabic (ar) علم المحيطات الفيزيائي		44
9	Korean (ko) 물리해양학		40
10	Indonesian (id) Oseanografi fisik		38

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Physical oceanography		130
2	French (fr) Océanographie physique		50
3	Japanese (ja) 海洋物理学		25
4	Hebrew (he) אוקיינוגרפיה פיזיקלית		23
5	Italian (it) Oceanografia fisica		20
6	Chinese (zh) 物理海洋学		18
7	Spanish (es) Oceanografía física		12
8	Korean (ko) 물리해양학		11
9	Estonian (et) Merefüüsika		8
10	Arabic (ar) علم المحيطات الفيزيائي		7

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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 "Physical oceanography" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 물리해양학		1
2	Arabic (ar) علم المحيطات الفيزيائي		0
3	Danish (da) Fysisk oceanografi		0
4	Greek (el) Φυσική ωκεανογραφία		0
5	English (en) Physical oceanography		0
6	Spanish (es) Oceanografía física		0
7	Estonian (et) Merefüüsika		0
8	Persian (fa) اقیانوس‌نگاری فیزیکی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Fysikaalinen meritiede		0
10	French (fr) Océanographie physique		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 "Physical oceanography" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Physical oceanography		716
2	Arabic (ar) علم المحيطات الفيزيائي		392
3	Japanese (ja) 海洋物理学		355
4	Persian (fa) اقیانوس‌نگاری فیزیکی		315
5	Chinese (zh) 物理海洋学		215
6	Polish (pl) Oceanografia fizyczna		195
7	French (fr) Océanographie physique		191
8	Indonesian (id) Oseanografi fisik		91
9	Italian (it) Oceanografia fisica		89
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hải dương học vật lý		86

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic علم المحيطات الفيزيائي
da	Danish Fysisk oceanografi
el	Greek Φυσική ωκεανογραφία
en	English Physical oceanography
es	Spanish Oceanografía física
et	Estonian Merefüüsika
fa	Persian اقیانوس‌نگاری فیزیکی
fi	Finnish Fysikaalinen meritiede
fr	French Océanographie physique
he	Hebrew אוקיינוגרפיה פיזיקלית
hi	Hindi भौतिक समुद्र विज्ञान
id	Indonesian Oseanografi fisik
it	Italian Oceanografia fisica
ja	Japanese 海洋物理学
ka	Georgian ზღვის ფიზიკა
ko	Korean 물리해양학
ms	Malay Oseanografi fizikal
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Fysisk oseanografi
pl	Polish Oceanografia fizyczna
tr	Turkish Fiziksel oşinografi
vi	Vietnamese Hải dương học vật lý
zh	Chinese 物理海洋学

Best Rank

English: #57090 06.2008

Global: #87909 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #13416 01.2006

Global: #23745 12.2003

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