Prime element

Prime element - nonzero, non-unit element p in a commutative ring R such that, whenever p divides ab for some a and b in R, then p divides a or p divides b (or both). Article “Prime element” in English Wikipedia has 21.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Prime element”, its content was written by 28 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 117 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in English Wikipedia and cited 204 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8993 in July 2002
• Global: #4941 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #528308 in November 2022
• Global: #525185 in November 2020

There are 15 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	German (de) Primelement		29.0675
2	English (en) Prime element		21.2377
3	Chinese (zh) 質元素		20.1377
4	Galician (gl) Elemento primo		17.6675
5	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		15.9938
6	Romanian (ro) Element prim		13.1306
7	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		11.2123
8	Japanese (ja) 素元		10.4482
9	Arabic (ar) عنصر أولي		9.1287
10	Ukrainian (uk) Простий елемент		5.3949

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Prime element" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prime element		219 244
2	German (de) Primelement		86 365
3	Japanese (ja) 素元		38 193
4	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		30 798
5	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		24 126
6	Russian (ru) Простой элемент		21 809
7	Czech (cs) Prvočinitel		19 474
8	Portuguese (pt) Elemento primo		11 360
9	Chinese (zh) 質元素		9 926
10	Arabic (ar) عنصر أولي		1 979

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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 "Prime element" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prime element		753
2	Japanese (ja) 素元		136
3	German (de) Primelement		122
4	Chinese (zh) 質元素		69
5	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		49
6	Russian (ru) Простой элемент		36
7	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		29
8	Czech (cs) Prvočinitel		21
9	Swedish (sv) Primelement		12
10	Portuguese (pt) Elemento primo		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Primelement		29
2	English (en) Prime element		28
3	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		9
4	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		8
5	Portuguese (pt) Elemento primo		8
6	Czech (cs) Prvočinitel		6
7	Russian (ru) Простой элемент		6
8	Swedish (sv) Primelement		6
9	Chinese (zh) 質元素		5
10	Arabic (ar) عنصر أولي		3

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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 "Prime element" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		1
2	Arabic (ar) عنصر أولي		0
3	Czech (cs) Prvočinitel		0
4	German (de) Primelement		0
5	English (en) Prime element		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Prima elemento		0
7	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		0
8	Galician (gl) Elemento primo		0
9	Japanese (ja) 素元		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Elemento primo		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 "Prime element" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Prime element		38
2	Japanese (ja) 素元		27
3	German (de) Primelement		26
4	Spanish (es) Elemento primo		16
5	Portuguese (pt) Elemento primo		15
6	Chinese (zh) 質元素		14
7	Galician (gl) Elemento primo		12
8	Polish (pl) Element pierwszy		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) Простий елемент		10
10	Romanian (ro) Element prim		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عنصر أولي
cs	Czech Prvočinitel
de	German Primelement
en	English Prime element
eo	Esperanto Prima elemento
es	Spanish Elemento primo
gl	Galician Elemento primo
ja	Japanese 素元
pl	Polish Element pierwszy
pt	Portuguese Elemento primo
ro	Romanian Element prim
ru	Russian Простой элемент
sv	Swedish Primelement
uk	Ukrainian Простий елемент
zh	Chinese 質元素

Best Rank

English: #528308 11.2022

Global: #525185 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #8993 07.2002

Global: #4941 02.2003

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