Refining (metallurgy)

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Refining (metallurgy)

Quality:

Refining - process of purifying metals. Article “Refining (metallurgy)” in English Wikipedia has 32.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.71 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Refining (metallurgy)”, its content was written by 66 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 218 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 148 times in English Wikipedia and cited 775 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #30274 in July 2024
  • Global: #28701 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #236336 in October 2016
  • Global: #232062 in May 2015

There are 16 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
32.4017
2Persian (fa)
پالایش (متالورژی)
28.0603
3Swedish (sv)
Affinering
27.6538
4Japanese (ja)
精錬
23.3436
5Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
19.0865
6Spanish (es)
Afino
14.3108
7French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
13.8756
8Arabic (ar)
تنقية الفلزات
10.5215
9German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
9.2976
10Turkish (tr)
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
9.0291
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Refining (metallurgy)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
554 338
2Japanese (ja)
精錬
297 323
3Spanish (es)
Afino
96 334
4French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
82 371
5German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
64 967
6Russian (ru)
Рафинирование металлов
58 335
7Ukrainian (uk)
Рафінування металів
50 307
8Turkish (tr)
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
25 060
9Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
16 614
10Arabic (ar)
تنقية الفلزات
7 533
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Refining (metallurgy)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
1 666
2Japanese (ja)
精錬
680
3Russian (ru)
Рафинирование металлов
298
4German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
207
5French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
140
6Turkish (tr)
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
102
7Spanish (es)
Afino
72
8Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
59
9Swedish (sv)
Affinering
46
10Ukrainian (uk)
Рафінування металів
45
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Refining (metallurgy)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
66
2German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
35
3French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
23
4Japanese (ja)
精錬
19
5Spanish (es)
Afino
13
6Russian (ru)
Рафинирование металлов
11
7Catalan (ca)
Refinació metal·lúrgica
9
8Turkish (tr)
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
8
9Ukrainian (uk)
Рафінування металів
8
10Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Refining (metallurgy)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تنقية الفلزات
0
2Catalan (ca)
Refinació metal·lúrgica
0
3German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
0
4English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
0
5Spanish (es)
Afino
0
6Persian (fa)
پالایش (متالورژی)
0
7French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
0
8Armenian (hy)
Մետաղների զտում
0
9Indonesian (id)
Pemurnian (metalurgi)
0
10Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Refining (metallurgy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Japanese (ja)
精錬
274
2English (en)
Refining (metallurgy)
148
3French (fr)
Affinage (métallurgie)
137
4Kazakh (kk)
Рафинациялау
52
5Ukrainian (uk)
Рафінування металів
32
6Spanish (es)
Afino
31
7Arabic (ar)
تنقية الفلزات
19
8Turkish (tr)
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
17
9German (de)
Edelmetallscheidung
14
10Italian (it)
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
13
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تنقية الفلزات
caCatalan
Refinació metal·lúrgica
deGerman
Edelmetallscheidung
enEnglish
Refining (metallurgy)
esSpanish
Afino
faPersian
پالایش (متالورژی)
frFrench
Affinage (métallurgie)
hyArmenian
Մետաղների զտում
idIndonesian
Pemurnian (metalurgi)
itItalian
Raffinazione (metallurgia)
jaJapanese
精錬
kkKazakh
Рафинациялау
ruRussian
Рафинирование металлов
svSwedish
Affinering
trTurkish
Değerli metallerin ayrıştırılması
ukUkrainian
Рафінування металів

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#236336
10.2016
Global:
#232062
05.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#30274
07.2024
Global:
#28701
03.2024

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Refining from Wikipedia articles about Good Delivery, Refining, Silver, Ashio copper mine incident and Smelting. Whereas reading the article about Refining people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Smelting, Wikipedia article, Wikipedia article, Pig iron and Calcination.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 精錬
es: Afino

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