Radioactive source

Radioactive source - radionuclide which emits ionizing radiation. Article "Radioactive source" in English Wikipedia has 38.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Radioactive source", its content was written by 18 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 50 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 127 times in English Wikipedia and cited 466 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #137910 in December 2023
• Global: #110979 in September 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #423608 in June 2019
• Global: #315537 in March 2011

There are 8 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) 放射源		50.1093
2	English (en) Radioactive source		38.3856
3	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		29.4679
4	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		22.7262
5	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		20.6719
6	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		16.2552
7	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		12.1575
8	German (de) Prüfstrahler		3.8557

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Radioactive source" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radioactive source		150 072
2	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		48 530
3	German (de) Prüfstrahler		18 634
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		16 734
5	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		15 423
6	Chinese (zh) 放射源		15 373
7	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		5 441
8	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		623

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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 "Radioactive source" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radioactive source		1 101
2	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		122
3	Chinese (zh) 放射源		119
4	German (de) Prüfstrahler		77
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		49
6	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		42
7	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		21
8	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Radioactive source		18
2	German (de) Prüfstrahler		9
3	Chinese (zh) 放射源		8
4	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		5
5	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		4
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		4
7	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		1
8	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		1

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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 "Radioactive source" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		1
2	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		0
3	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		0
4	German (de) Prüfstrahler		0
5	English (en) Radioactive source		0
6	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		0
7	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		0
8	Chinese (zh) 放射源		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 "Radioactive source" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 放射線源		246
2	English (en) Radioactive source		127
3	Chinese (zh) 放射源		44
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn phóng xạ		29
5	Czech (cs) Radionuklidový zářič		7
6	German (de) Prüfstrahler		7
7	Arabic (ar) مصدر مشع		3
8	Korean (ko) 방사성 선원		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مصدر مشع
cs	Czech Radionuklidový zářič
de	German Prüfstrahler
en	English Radioactive source
ja	Japanese 放射線源
ko	Korean 방사성 선원
vi	Vietnamese Nguồn phóng xạ
zh	Chinese 放射源

Best Rank

English: #423608 06.2019

Global: #315537 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #137910 12.2023

Global: #110979 09.2023

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