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 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.32 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 4566^th most popular in all topics.

The 9840^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Potential energy”, its content was written by 703 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2589 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9840^th place).

The article is cited 724 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7385 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #433 in August 2001
• Global: #473 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4856 in October 2010
• Global: #1632 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, 2026 (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		69.7127
2	Chinese (zh) 势能		67.3718
3	English (en) Potential energy		63.0485
4	Basque (eu) Energia potentzial		53.8505
5	Catalan (ca) Energia potencial		50.2514
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Potensiell energi		48.4618
7	Hindi (hi) स्थितिज ऊर्जा		44.884
8	Norwegian (no) Potensiell energi		40.3753
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Potencijalna energija		32.1877
10	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		30.7695

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		12 604 653
2	English (en) Potential energy		10 358 568
3	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		2 391 385
4	German (de) Potentielle Energie		2 334 592
5	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		1 810 739
6	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		1 452 743
7	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		1 393 322
8	Portuguese (pt) Energia potencial		1 329 001
9	Indonesian (id) Energi potensial		1 015 875
10	Japanese (ja) 位置エネルギー		976 654

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		7 631
2	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		2 122
3	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		2 016
4	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		1 728
5	German (de) Potentielle Energie		1 500
6	Japanese (ja) 位置エネルギー		1 359
7	Chinese (zh) 势能		1 103
8	Persian (fa) انرژی پتانسیل		1 000
9	Polish (pl) Energia potencjalna		609
10	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		562

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		703
2	German (de) Potentielle Energie		216
3	Spanish (es) Energía potencial		199
4	Italian (it) Energia potenziale		100
5	French (fr) Énergie potentielle		93
6	Russian (ru) Потенциальная энергия		76
7	Chinese (zh) 势能		71
8	Hebrew (he) אנרגיה פוטנציאלית		66
9	Dutch (nl) Potentiële energie		66
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	Croatian (hr) Potencijalna energija		2
2	Arabic (ar) طاقة وضع		1
3	Persian (fa) انرژی پتانسیل		1
4	Romanian (ro) Energie potențială		1
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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