Pitch drop experiment

Quality:

Pitch drop experiment - long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch. Article “Pitch drop experiment” in English Wikipedia has 50.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 10 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.

In June 2025 the article “Pitch drop experiment” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pitch drop experiment”, its content was written by 221 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 704 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in English Wikipedia and cited 153 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2611 in July 2013
• Global: #1388 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1529 in January 2024
• Global: #1654 in April 2014

There are 18 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) Pitch drop experiment		50.6371
2	German (de) Pechtropfenexperiment		39.4493
3	Slovenian (sl) Poskus kapljanja smole		37.1729
4	Finnish (fi) Pikitippakoe		32.5384
5	Hebrew (he) ניסוי טיפת הזפת		29.4488
6	Portuguese (pt) Experimento da gota de piche		28.4743
7	Italian (it) Esperimento della goccia di pece		26.9466
8	Chinese (zh) 瀝青滴漏實驗		26.2242
9	Polish (pl) Eksperyment kropli paku		25.924
10	Ukrainian (uk) Експеримент з пеком, що капає		24.7262

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pitch drop experiment		3 217 066
2	German (de) Pechtropfenexperiment		645 565
3	Japanese (ja) ピッチドロップ実験		431 191
4	Russian (ru) Опыт с капающим пеком		304 073
5	Spanish (es) Experimento de la gota de brea		275 491
6	French (fr) Expérience de la goutte de poix		272 221
7	Chinese (zh) 瀝青滴漏實驗		219 188
8	Dutch (nl) Pekdruppelexperiment		174 486
9	Polish (pl) Eksperyment kropli paku		142 056
10	Italian (it) Esperimento della goccia di pece		136 928

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pitch drop experiment		13 413
2	German (de) Pechtropfenexperiment		2 291
3	Chinese (zh) 瀝青滴漏實驗		1 948
4	Russian (ru) Опыт с капающим пеком		1 906
5	Japanese (ja) ピッチドロップ実験		1 684
6	French (fr) Expérience de la goutte de poix		1 416
7	Spanish (es) Experimento de la gota de brea		1 282
8	Polish (pl) Eksperyment kropli paku		722
9	Portuguese (pt) Experimento da gota de piche		492
10	Italian (it) Esperimento della goccia di pece		411

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pitch drop experiment		221
2	German (de) Pechtropfenexperiment		101
3	Dutch (nl) Pekdruppelexperiment		58
4	French (fr) Expérience de la goutte de poix		52
5	Hebrew (he) ניסוי טיפת הזפת		44
6	Italian (it) Esperimento della goccia di pece		37
7	Chinese (zh) 瀝青滴漏實驗		33
8	Spanish (es) Experimento de la gota de brea		30
9	Polish (pl) Eksperyment kropli paku		30
10	Finnish (fi) Pikitippakoe		25

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pitch drop experiment		3
2	Japanese (ja) ピッチドロップ実験		1
3	Arabic (ar) تجربة قطرة القار		0
4	Catalan (ca) Experiment de la gota de brea		0
5	German (de) Pechtropfenexperiment		0
6	Spanish (es) Experimento de la gota de brea		0
7	Finnish (fi) Pikitippakoe		0
8	French (fr) Expérience de la goutte de poix		0
9	Hebrew (he) ניסוי טיפת הזפת		0
10	Italian (it) Esperimento della goccia di pece		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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