Plate tectonics

Quality:

Plate tectonics - scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. Article "Plate tectonics" in English Wikipedia has 80.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 134 references and 30 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3092^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 4228^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2332^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2343^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8502^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Plate tectonics" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Plate tectonics", its content was written by 1181 registered users of English Wikipedia (4228^th place) and edited by 4800 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2343^rd place).

The article is cited 3259 times in English Wikipedia (8618^th place) and cited 18860 times in all languages (8824^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #203 in August 2004
• Global: #292 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #264 in March 2011
• Global: #250 in March 2011

There are 54 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	Esperanto (eo) Platotektoniko		85.4196
2	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		85.4127
3	Dutch (nl) Platentektoniek		83.8523
4	English (en) Plate tectonics		80.7179
5	Vietnamese (vi) Kiến tạo mảng		79.6674
6	Latin (la) Tectonica laminarum		76.3423
7	Slovak (sk) Platňová tektonika		75.5239
8	German (de) Plattentektonik		71.0106
9	Czech (cs) Desková tektonika		69.8645
10	Basque (eu) Plaken tektonika		63.8516

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plate tectonics		25 935 253
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		5 190 965
3	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		3 207 737
4	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		3 175 820
5	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		2 691 231
6	Japanese (ja) プレートテクトニクス		2 286 372
7	Indonesian (id) Tektonika lempeng		2 082 530
8	Arabic (ar) الصفائح التكتونية		1 795 253
9	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		1 748 596
10	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		1 586 661

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) Plate tectonics		63 141
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		8 830
3	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		7 815
4	Japanese (ja) プレートテクトニクス		6 368
5	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		4 903
6	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		4 766
7	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		4 154
8	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		3 560
9	Chinese (zh) 板块构造论		2 708
10	Korean (ko) 판 구조론		2 658

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plate tectonics		1 181
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		409
3	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		303
4	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		298
5	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		228
6	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		226
7	Dutch (nl) Platentektoniek		165
8	Hebrew (he) טקטוניקת הלוחות		139
9	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		134
10	Chinese (zh) 板块构造论		110

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	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		4
3	English (en) Plate tectonics		3
4	Korean (ko) 판 구조론		2
5	Greek (el) Τεκτονικές πλάκες		1
6	Persian (fa) زمین‌ساخت صفحه‌ای		1
7	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		1
8	Polish (pl) Tektonika płyt		1
9	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		1
10	Thai (th) การแปรสัณฐานแผ่นธรณีภาค		1

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

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