Potential energy

Quality:

Potential energy - energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects or stresses within itself, rather than its velocity. Article “Potential energy” in English Wikipedia has 63.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.33 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4312^th most popular in all topics.

The 9536^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Potential energy” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Potential energy”, its content was written by 696 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2585 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9536^th place).

The article is cited 705 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7173 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #362 in August 2001
• Global: #401 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4840 in October 2010
• Global: #1612 in October 2014

There are 53 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	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		70.7174
2	Chinese (zh) 势能		67.4654
3	English (en) Potential energy		63.2144
4	Basque (eu) Energia potentzial		54.2672
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Potensiell energi		48.4618
6	Hindi (hi) स्थितिज ऊर्जा		44.9436
7	Norwegian (no) Potensiell energi		40.5936
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Potencijalna energija		31.3373
9	German (de) Potentielle Energie		31.2264
10	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		30.7485

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		12 538 728
2	English (en) Potential energy		10 214 049
3	German (de) Potentielle Energie		2 306 589
4	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		2 093 299
5	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		1 783 862
6	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		1 440 096
7	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		1 382 143
8	Portuguese (pt) Energia potencial		1 322 414
9	Indonesian (id) Energi potensial		1 007 759
10	Japanese (ja) 位置エネルギー		956 309

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) Potential energy		13 814
2	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		7 157
3	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		3 173
4	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		2 561
5	German (de) Potentielle Energie		2 369
6	Japanese (ja) 位置エネルギー		2 363
7	Chinese (zh) 势能		1 941
8	Simple English (simple) Potential energy		1 730
9	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		1 255
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thế năng		1 181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Potential energy		696
2	German (de) Potentielle Energie		214
3	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		198
4	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		99
5	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		91
6	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		75
7	Chinese (zh) 势能		71
8	Dutch (nl) Potentiële energie		66
9	Hebrew (he) אנרגיה פוטנציאלית		64
10	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		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	Vietnamese (vi) Thế năng		2
2	English (en) Potential energy		1
3	Persian (fa) انرژی پتانسیل		1
4	Arabic (ar) طاقة وضع		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Potensial enerji		0
6	Belarusian (be) Патэнцыяльная энергія		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Потенциална енергия		0
8	Catalan (ca) Energia potencial		0
9	Czech (cs) Potenciální energie		0
10	Danish (da) Potentiel energi		0

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

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