Recurve bow

Recurve bow - bow with limbs that curve away from the archer when unstrung. Article “Recurve bow” in English Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Recurve bow”, its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 216 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 701 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2534 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #56765 in February 2016
• Global: #96831 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29877 in August 2016
• Global: #41825 in August 2016

There are 14 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	Russian (ru) Олимпийский лук		37.6949
2	English (en) Recurve bow		37.5891
3	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		24.7364
4	Lithuanian (lt) Lenktas lankas		13.8349
5	Chinese (zh) 反曲弓		11.0728
6	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		8.8094
7	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		7.6173
8	Indonesian (id) Busur recurve		7.5988
9	Korean (ko) 반곡궁		6.429
10	Turkish (tr) Olimpik yay		4.9002

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Recurve bow" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recurve bow		2 145 411
2	Chinese (zh) 反曲弓		263 009
3	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		165 478
4	Russian (ru) Олимпийский лук		140 260
5	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		89 713
6	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		77 135
7	Italian (it) Arco olimpico		62 207
8	Portuguese (pt) Arco recurvo		54 299
9	Finnish (fi) Vastakaarijousi		31 924
10	Turkish (tr) Olimpik yay		28 434

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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 "Recurve bow" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recurve bow		7 004
2	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		836
3	Chinese (zh) 反曲弓		767
4	Russian (ru) Олимпийский лук		418
5	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		392
6	Italian (it) Arco olimpico		116
7	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		91
8	Finnish (fi) Vastakaarijousi		83
9	Portuguese (pt) Arco recurvo		76
10	Turkish (tr) Olimpik yay		76

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Recurve bow		62
2	Russian (ru) Олимпийский лук		35
3	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		26
4	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		22
5	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		16
6	Italian (it) Arco olimpico		12
7	Chinese (zh) 反曲弓		8
8	Portuguese (pt) Arco recurvo		7
9	Finnish (fi) Vastakaarijousi		6
10	Norwegian (no) Rekurvbue		6

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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 "Recurve bow" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Busur recurve		1
2	English (en) Recurve bow		0
3	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		0
4	Finnish (fi) Vastakaarijousi		0
5	Italian (it) Arco olimpico		0
6	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		0
7	Korean (ko) 반곡궁		0
8	Lithuanian (lt) Lenktas lankas		0
9	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		0
10	Norwegian (no) Rekurvbue		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 "Recurve bow" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Spanish (es) Arco recurvo		1 148
2	English (en) Recurve bow		701
3	Dutch (nl) Recurveboog		210
4	Russian (ru) Олимпийский лук		157
5	Chinese (zh) 反曲弓		82
6	Italian (it) Arco olimpico		48
7	Korean (ko) 반곡궁		43
8	Portuguese (pt) Arco recurvo		43
9	Japanese (ja) リカーブボウ		34
10	Turkish (tr) Olimpik yay		26

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#	Language	Value
en	English Recurve bow
es	Spanish Arco recurvo
fi	Finnish Vastakaarijousi
id	Indonesian Busur recurve
it	Italian Arco olimpico
ja	Japanese リカーブボウ
ko	Korean 반곡궁
lt	Lithuanian Lenktas lankas
nl	Dutch Recurveboog
no	Norwegian Rekurvbue
pt	Portuguese Arco recurvo
ru	Russian Олимпийский лук
tr	Turkish Olimpik yay
zh	Chinese 反曲弓

Best Rank

English: #29877 08.2016

Global: #41825 08.2016

Best Rank

English: #56765 02.2016

Global: #96831 12.2004

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