Quantum electrodynamics

Quantum electrodynamics - Abelian gauge theory describing quantum interactions of the electromagnetic field with matter. Article "Quantum electrodynamics" in English Wikipedia has 78 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 55 references and 23 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 "Quantum electrodynamics" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Quantum electrodynamics", its content was written by 314 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 639 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5176 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2356 in March 2003
• Global: #1898 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45711 in February 2008
• Global: #37198 in February 2008

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	Chinese (zh) 量子電動力學		78.3927
2	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		78.0327
3	Romanian (ro) Electrodinamică cuantică		77.4404
4	Portuguese (pt) Eletrodinâmica quântica		74.7315
5	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		68.951
6	Russian (ru) Квантовая электродинамика		67.0185
7	Vietnamese (vi) Điện động lực học lượng tử		63.6677
8	Ukrainian (uk) Квантова електродинаміка		56.8964
9	Polish (pl) Elektrodynamika kwantowa		55.3533
10	Italian (it) Elettrodinamica quantistica		42.4384

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Quantum electrodynamics" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		3 014 698
2	Russian (ru) Квантовая электродинамика		433 160
3	Spanish (es) Electrodinámica cuántica		427 762
4	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		402 324
5	Italian (it) Elettrodinamica quantistica		243 068
6	French (fr) Électrodynamique quantique		240 181
7	Japanese (ja) 量子電磁力学		233 089
8	Chinese (zh) 量子電動力學		183 453
9	Portuguese (pt) Eletrodinâmica quântica		180 563
10	Polish (pl) Elektrodynamika kwantowa		165 355

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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 "Quantum electrodynamics" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		13 854
2	Russian (ru) Квантовая электродинамика		2 060
3	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		1 072
4	Chinese (zh) 量子電動力學		785
5	Spanish (es) Electrodinámica cuántica		768
6	Italian (it) Elettrodinamica quantistica		747
7	French (fr) Électrodynamique quantique		737
8	Japanese (ja) 量子電磁力学		723
9	Simple English (simple) Quantum electrodynamics		555
10	Polish (pl) Elektrodynamika kwantowa		350

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		314
2	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		107
3	Italian (it) Elettrodinamica quantistica		83
4	French (fr) Électrodynamique quantique		74
5	Polish (pl) Elektrodynamika kwantowa		59
6	Russian (ru) Квантовая электродинамика		56
7	Dutch (nl) Kwantumelektrodynamica		46
8	Japanese (ja) 量子電磁力学		42
9	Hebrew (he) אלקטרודינמיקה קוונטית		41
10	Chinese (zh) 量子電動力學		39

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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 "Quantum electrodynamics" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		4
2	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		1
3	Romanian (ro) Electrodinamică cuantică		1
4	Arabic (ar) الديناميكا الكهربائية الكمية		0
5	Belarusian (be) Квантавая электрадынаміка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Квантова електродинамика		0
7	Catalan (ca) Electrodinàmica quàntica		0
8	Czech (cs) Kvantová elektrodynamika		0
9	Danish (da) Kvanteelektrodynamik		0
10	Greek (el) Κβαντική ηλεκτροδυναμική		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 "Quantum electrodynamics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Quantum electrodynamics		639
2	French (fr) Électrodynamique quantique		380
3	Russian (ru) Квантовая электродинамика		327
4	Portuguese (pt) Eletrodinâmica quântica		319
5	German (de) Quantenelektrodynamik		257
6	Chinese (zh) 量子電動力學		241
7	Ukrainian (uk) Квантова електродинаміка		199
8	Polish (pl) Elektrodynamika kwantowa		195
9	Italian (it) Elettrodinamica quantistica		189
10	Korean (ko) 양자 전기역학		180

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الديناميكا الكهربائية الكمية
be	Belarusian Квантавая электрадынаміка
bg	Bulgarian Квантова електродинамика
ca	Catalan Electrodinàmica quàntica
cs	Czech Kvantová elektrodynamika
da	Danish Kvanteelektrodynamik
de	German Quantenelektrodynamik
el	Greek Κβαντική ηλεκτροδυναμική
en	English Quantum electrodynamics
eo	Esperanto Kvantuma elektrodinamiko
es	Spanish Electrodinámica cuántica
et	Estonian Kvantelektrodünaamika
eu	Basque Elektrodinamika kuantiko
fa	Persian الکترودینامیک کوانتومی
fi	Finnish Kvanttisähködynamiikka
fr	French Électrodynamique quantique
gl	Galician Electrodinámica cuántica
he	Hebrew אלקטרודינמיקה קוונטית
hi	Hindi क्वाण्टम विद्युत्गतिकी
hr	Croatian Kvantna elektrodinamika
hu	Hungarian Kvantum-elektrodinamika
hy	Armenian Քվանտային էլեկտրադինամիկա
id	Indonesian Elektrodinamika kuantum
it	Italian Elettrodinamica quantistica
ja	Japanese 量子電磁力学
ka	Georgian კვანტური ელექტროდინამიკა
ko	Korean 양자 전기역학
lt	Lithuanian Kvantinė elektrodinamika
ms	Malay Elektrodinamik kuantum
nl	Dutch Kwantumelektrodynamica
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Kvanteelektrodynamikk
no	Norwegian Kvanteelektrodynamikk
pl	Polish Elektrodynamika kwantowa
pt	Portuguese Eletrodinâmica quântica
ro	Romanian Electrodinamică cuantică
ru	Russian Квантовая электродинамика
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kvantna elektrodinamika
simple	Simple English Quantum electrodynamics
sk	Slovak Kvantová elektrodynamika
sr	Serbian Квантна електродинамика
sv	Swedish Kvantelektrodynamik
tr	Turkish Kuantum elektrodinamiği
uk	Ukrainian Квантова електродинаміка
vi	Vietnamese Điện động lực học lượng tử
zh	Chinese 量子電動力學

Best Rank

English: #45711 02.2008

Global: #37198 02.2008

Best Rank

English: #2356 03.2003

Global: #1898 03.2003

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