Poynting vector

Poynting vector - measure of directional energy flux. Article "Poynting vector" in English Wikipedia has 57.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 14 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Poynting vector" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Poynting vector", its content was written by 166 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 742 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 223 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1299 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2072 in April 2002
• Global: #308 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #32338 in November 2021
• Global: #35498 in November 2021

There are 35 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	Chinese (zh) 坡印廷向量		66.8536
2	English (en) Poynting vector		57.6149
3	Portuguese (pt) Vector de Poynting		42.4387
4	German (de) Poynting-Vektor		38.5371
5	Greek (el) Διάνυσμα Πόυντινγκ		35.2077
6	Slovenian (sl) Poyntingov vektor		33.3
7	Swedish (sv) Poyntings vektor		31.7932
8	French (fr) Vecteur de Poynting		28.2491
9	Azerbaijani (az) Poyntinq vektoru		24.6466
10	Danish (da) Poynting-vektor		17.9755

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Poynting vector" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Poynting vector		2 546 948
2	Russian (ru) Вектор Умова — Пойнтинга		644 837
3	German (de) Poynting-Vektor		453 699
4	French (fr) Vecteur de Poynting		387 764
5	Spanish (es) Vector de Poynting		341 315
6	Italian (it) Vettore di Poynting		301 392
7	Japanese (ja) ポインティング・ベクトル		213 940
8	Chinese (zh) 坡印廷向量		204 977
9	Polish (pl) Wektor Poyntinga		125 874
10	Portuguese (pt) Vector de Poynting		111 428

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Poynting vector" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Poynting vector		9 334
2	Russian (ru) Вектор Умова — Пойнтинга		1 916
3	German (de) Poynting-Vektor		1 366
4	French (fr) Vecteur de Poynting		1 246
5	Chinese (zh) 坡印廷向量		1 164
6	Italian (it) Vettore di Poynting		982
7	Japanese (ja) ポインティング・ベクトル		790
8	Spanish (es) Vector de Poynting		636
9	Polish (pl) Wektor Poyntinga		490
10	Korean (ko) 포인팅 벡터		312

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

Language versions of the article "Poynting vector" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Poynting vector		166
2	German (de) Poynting-Vektor		81
3	French (fr) Vecteur de Poynting		77
4	Italian (it) Vettore di Poynting		50
5	Russian (ru) Вектор Умова — Пойнтинга		47
6	Greek (el) Διάνυσμα Πόυντινγκ		31
7	Dutch (nl) Poynting-vector		26
8	Chinese (zh) 坡印廷向量		23
9	Hebrew (he) וקטור פוינטינג		21
10	Polish (pl) Wektor Poyntinga		21

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

Language versions of the article "Poynting vector" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Poyntinq vektoru		3
2	English (en) Poynting vector		2
3	Estonian (et) Poyntingi vektor		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Теорема и вектор на Пойнтинг		0
5	Catalan (ca) Vector de Poynting		0
6	Czech (cs) Poyntingův vektor		0
7	Danish (da) Poynting-vektor		0
8	German (de) Poynting-Vektor		0
9	Greek (el) Διάνυσμα Πόυντινγκ		0
10	Spanish (es) Vector de Poynting		0

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

Language versions of the article "Poynting vector" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Poynting vector		223
2	Portuguese (pt) Vector de Poynting		118
3	Chinese (zh) 坡印廷向量		105
4	Russian (ru) Вектор Умова — Пойнтинга		81
5	Dutch (nl) Poynting-vector		75
6	Persian (fa) بردار پوئینتینگ		74
7	Serbian (sr) Поинтингов вектор		54
8	French (fr) Vecteur de Poynting		48
9	Turkish (tr) Poynting vektörü		48
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vectơ Poynting		48

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Poyntinq vektoru
bg	Bulgarian Теорема и вектор на Пойнтинг
ca	Catalan Vector de Poynting
cs	Czech Poyntingův vektor
da	Danish Poynting-vektor
de	German Poynting-Vektor
el	Greek Διάνυσμα Πόυντινγκ
en	English Poynting vector
es	Spanish Vector de Poynting
et	Estonian Poyntingi vektor
fa	Persian بردار پوئینتینگ
fi	Finnish Poyntingin teoreema
fr	French Vecteur de Poynting
he	Hebrew וקטור פוינטינג
hi	Hindi प्वाइन्टिंग सदिश
hr	Croatian Poyntingov vektor
hy	Armenian Պոյնտինգի վեկտոր
it	Italian Vettore di Poynting
ja	Japanese ポインティング・ベクトル
ko	Korean 포인팅 벡터
nl	Dutch Poynting-vector
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Poyntingvektor
no	Norwegian Poyntings vektor
pl	Polish Wektor Poyntinga
pt	Portuguese Vector de Poynting
ru	Russian Вектор Умова — Пойнтинга
sl	Slovenian Poyntingov vektor
sr	Serbian Поинтингов вектор
sv	Swedish Poyntings vektor
th	Thai เวกเตอร์พอยน์ติง
tr	Turkish Poynting vektörü
uk	Ukrainian Вектор Пойнтінга
uz	Uzbek Umov poynting vektori
vi	Vietnamese Vectơ Poynting
zh	Chinese 坡印廷向量

Best Rank

English: #32338 11.2021

Global: #35498 11.2021

Best Rank

English: #2072 04.2002

Global: #308 04.2002

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