Reflection (physics)

Quality:

Reflection - change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. Article "Reflection (physics)" in English Wikipedia has 50.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 14 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Reflection (physics)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Reflection (physics)", its content was written by 360 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2002 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 541 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5962 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3340 in September 2001
• Global: #1146 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12218 in April 2013
• Global: #5597 in April 2013

There are 49 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	German (de) Reflexion (Physik)		53.8192
2	English (en) Reflection (physics)		50.9048
3	Chinese (zh) 反射 (物理学)		49.5148
4	Catalan (ca) Reflexió		45.6566
5	Portuguese (pt) Reflexão (física)		40.3704
6	French (fr) Réflexion (physique)		38.274
7	Dutch (nl) Reflectie (straling)		37.622
8	Spanish (es) Reflexión (física)		36.2549
9	Tamil (ta) எதிரொளிப்பு		35.7955
10	Malay (ms) Pantulan (fizik)		35.0594

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reflection (physics)		6 189 318
2	Spanish (es) Reflexión (física)		5 905 796
3	German (de) Reflexion (Physik)		1 810 661
4	Russian (ru) Отражение (физика)		987 771
5	Portuguese (pt) Reflexão (física)		731 607
6	Thai (th) การสะท้อน (ฟิสิกส์)		695 478
7	Japanese (ja) 反射		610 351
8	Polish (pl) Odbicie fali		547 633
9	Italian (it) Riflessione (fisica)		509 804
10	Romanian (ro) Reflexia luminii		475 468

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reflection (physics)		9 770
2	German (de) Reflexion (Physik)		2 014
3	Spanish (es) Reflexión (física)		1 632
4	Romanian (ro) Reflexia luminii		1 503
5	Russian (ru) Отражение (физика)		1 385
6	Chinese (zh) 反射 (物理学)		849
7	Thai (th) การสะท้อน (ฟิสิกส์)		778
8	Simple English (simple) Reflection		615
9	Japanese (ja) 反射		607
10	French (fr) Réflexion (physique)		523

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reflection (physics)		360
2	German (de) Reflexion (Physik)		321
3	Spanish (es) Reflexión (física)		137
4	French (fr) Réflexion (physique)		76
5	Italian (it) Riflessione (fisica)		74
6	Russian (ru) Отражение (физика)		73
7	Dutch (nl) Reflectie (straling)		72
8	Turkish (tr) Yansıma		56
9	Hebrew (he) החזרה (אופטיקה)		51
10	Portuguese (pt) Reflexão (física)		45

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reflection (physics)		2
2	Basque (eu) Islapen		1
3	Armenian (hy) Ալիքների անդրադարձում և բեկում		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Reflexão (física)		1
5	Russian (ru) Отражение (физика)		1
6	Arabic (ar) انعكاس (فيزياء)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) İşığın qayıtması		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Отражение		0
9	Catalan (ca) Reflexió		0
10	Czech (cs) Odraz vlnění		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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