Polyethylene

Quality:

Polyethylene - most common thermoplastic polymer. Article “Polyethylene” in English Wikipedia has 86.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5213^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Polyethylene”, its content was written by 579 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1390 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8454 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1096 in December 2002
• Global: #1056 in September 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6109 in April 2015
• Global: #2912 in April 2015

There are 45 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	German (de) Polyethylen		98.361
2	English (en) Polyethylene		86.6315
3	Greek (el) Πολυαιθυλένιο		65.1162
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Polietilen		54.0862
5	Finnish (fi) Polyeteeni		51.0971
6	Persian (fa) پلی‌اتیلن		49.8567
7	Chinese (zh) 聚乙烯		49.0682
8	Russian (ru) Полиэтилен		43.0329
9	Malay (ms) Polietilena		40.899
10	Bulgarian (bg) Полиетилен		38.7737

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polyethylene		11 807 801
2	German (de) Polyethylen		5 047 131
3	Spanish (es) Polietileno		4 027 320
4	Japanese (ja) ポリエチレン		2 469 519
5	Russian (ru) Полиэтилен		2 349 439
6	French (fr) Polyéthylène		1 857 057
7	Polish (pl) Polietylen		1 585 805
8	Italian (it) Polietilene		1 432 877
9	Portuguese (pt) Polietileno		1 376 300
10	Chinese (zh) 聚乙烯		1 199 413

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) Polyethylene		22 012
2	German (de) Polyethylen		6 252
3	Russian (ru) Полиэтилен		4 109
4	Chinese (zh) 聚乙烯		3 891
5	Japanese (ja) ポリエチレン		3 615
6	French (fr) Polyéthylène		3 364
7	Spanish (es) Polietileno		2 645
8	Italian (it) Polietilene		1 615
9	Korean (ko) 폴리에틸렌		1 132
10	Vietnamese (vi) Polyethylen		1 112

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polyethylene		579
2	German (de) Polyethylen		313
3	French (fr) Polyéthylène		121
4	Russian (ru) Полиэтилен		117
5	Spanish (es) Polietileno		115
6	Dutch (nl) Polyetheen		114
7	Italian (it) Polietilene		109
8	Persian (fa) پلی‌اتیلن		94
9	Polish (pl) Polietylen		68
10	Chinese (zh) 聚乙烯		63

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	Polish (pl) Polietylen		2
2	Russian (ru) Полиэтилен		2
3	Czech (cs) Polyethylen		1
4	Italian (it) Polietilene		1
5	Romanian (ro) Polietilenă		1
6	Arabic (ar) متعدد الإيثيلين		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Polietilen		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Полиетилен		0
9	Catalan (ca) Polietilè		0
10	Danish (da) Polyethylen		0

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

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