Refractory metals

Refractory metal - class of metals that are extraordinarily resistant to heat and wear. Article “Refractory metals” in English Wikipedia has 53.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 14 sections.

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 “Refractory metals”, its content was written by 95 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 182 times in English Wikipedia and cited 842 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2015 in April 2004
• Global: #7034 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #154024 in November 2014
• Global: #111908 in December 2020

There are 20 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	English (en) Refractory metals		53.0524
2	Finnish (fi) Tulenkestävät metallit		46.9578
3	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		39.7833
4	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		31.291
5	Galician (gl) Metais refractarios		28.14
6	Kazakh (kk) Қиын балқитын металдар		25.6918
7	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		25.5909
8	Japanese (ja) 耐火金属		25.4549
9	Hindi (hi) उच्चतापसह धातु		23.6592
10	Persian (fa) فلزهای دیرگداز		23.4658

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Refractory metals" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Refractory metals		870 503
2	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		476 332
3	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		168 791
4	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		91 755
5	Persian (fa) فلزهای دیرگداز		74 226
6	Kazakh (kk) Қиын балқитын металдар		55 174
7	Ukrainian (uk) Тугоплавкі метали		33 106
8	Japanese (ja) 耐火金属		31 447
9	Chinese (zh) 難熔金屬		30 031
10	Spanish (es) Metal refractario		21 931

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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 "Refractory metals" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Refractory metals		2 479
2	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		1 176
3	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		358
4	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		193
5	Chinese (zh) 難熔金屬		184
6	Japanese (ja) 耐火金属		133
7	Persian (fa) فلزهای دیرگداز		71
8	Ukrainian (uk) Тугоплавкі метали		53
9	Greek (el) Πυρίμαχα μέταλλα		52
10	Spanish (es) Metal refractario		50

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Refractory metals		95
2	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		42
3	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		32
4	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		24
5	Finnish (fi) Tulenkestävät metallit		10
6	Chinese (zh) 難熔金屬		9
7	Ukrainian (uk) Тугоплавкі метали		8
8	Spanish (es) Metal refractario		5
9	Galician (gl) Metais refractarios		5
10	Japanese (ja) 耐火金属		5

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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 "Refractory metals" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Πυρίμαχα μέταλλα		2
2	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		2
3	Arabic (ar) فلزات حرارية		0
4	Catalan (ca) Metall refractari		0
5	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		0
6	English (en) Refractory metals		0
7	Spanish (es) Metal refractario		0
8	Persian (fa) فلزهای دیرگداز		0
9	Finnish (fi) Tulenkestävät metallit		0
10	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		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 "Refractory metals" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Refractory metals		182
2	Arabic (ar) فلزات حرارية		93
3	Russian (ru) Тугоплавкие металлы		92
4	Persian (fa) فلزهای دیرگداز		88
5	Ukrainian (uk) Тугоплавкі метали		86
6	Korean (ko) 난융 금속		83
7	Chinese (zh) 難熔金屬		68
8	Turkish (tr) Refrakter metal		60
9	German (de) Refraktärmetalle		30
10	French (fr) Métal réfractaire		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فلزات حرارية
ca	Catalan Metall refractari
de	German Refraktärmetalle
el	Greek Πυρίμαχα μέταλλα
en	English Refractory metals
es	Spanish Metal refractario
fa	Persian فلزهای دیرگداز
fi	Finnish Tulenkestävät metallit
fr	French Métal réfractaire
gl	Galician Metais refractarios
hi	Hindi उच्चतापसह धातु
ja	Japanese 耐火金属
kk	Kazakh Қиын балқитын металдар
ko	Korean 난융 금속
pt	Portuguese Metais refratários
ru	Russian Тугоплавкие металлы
tr	Turkish Refrakter metal
uk	Ukrainian Тугоплавкі метали
uz	Uzbek Binar metallar
zh	Chinese 難熔金屬

Best Rank

English: #154024 11.2014

Global: #111908 12.2020

Best Rank

English: #2015 04.2004

Global: #7034 04.2004

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