Reverse engineering

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Reverse engineering

Quality:

Reverse engineering - process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, code or to extract knowledge from the object. Article "Reverse engineering" in English Wikipedia has 56.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 67 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Reverse engineering" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Reverse engineering", its content was written by 516 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1695 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1031 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4991 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #112 in April 2001
  • Global: #117 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #13301 in December 2014
  • Global: #12837 in March 2009

There are 37 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
1Portuguese (pt)
Engenharia reversa
57.4376
2English (en)
Reverse engineering
56.4396
3Tamil (ta)
பின்னோக்குப் பொறியியல்
49.1175
4Chinese (zh)
逆向工程
40.318
5German (de)
Reverse Engineering
38.4711
6Basque (eu)
Alderantzizko ingeniaritza
32.0123
7French (fr)
Rétro-ingénierie
30.1739
8Romanian (ro)
Inginerie inversă
25.3449
9Persian (fa)
مهندسی معکوس
24.2056
10Catalan (ca)
Enginyeria inversa
24.1046
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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 "Reverse engineering" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reverse engineering
5 916 613
2Japanese (ja)
リバースエンジニアリング
1 218 215
3German (de)
Reverse Engineering
1 161 749
4Spanish (es)
Ingeniería inversa
1 013 968
5Russian (ru)
Обратная разработка
951 194
6French (fr)
Rétro-ingénierie
713 874
7Chinese (zh)
逆向工程
475 986
8Portuguese (pt)
Engenharia reversa
364 909
9Italian (it)
Reverse engineering
358 530
10Polish (pl)
Inżynieria odwrotna
338 428
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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 "Reverse engineering" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Reverse engineering
18 727
2Japanese (ja)
リバースエンジニアリング
3 673
3Russian (ru)
Обратная разработка
3 586
4French (fr)
Rétro-ingénierie
1 599
5Chinese (zh)
逆向工程
1 512
6Spanish (es)
Ingeniería inversa
1 201
7German (de)
Reverse Engineering
1 092
8Persian (fa)
مهندسی معکوس
999
9Italian (it)
Reverse engineering
809
10Portuguese (pt)
Engenharia reversa
609
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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 "Reverse engineering" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reverse engineering
516
2French (fr)
Rétro-ingénierie
142
3German (de)
Reverse Engineering
141
4Russian (ru)
Обратная разработка
141
5Spanish (es)
Ingeniería inversa
68
6Italian (it)
Reverse engineering
55
7Japanese (ja)
リバースエンジニアリング
54
8Dutch (nl)
Reverse engineering
52
9Portuguese (pt)
Engenharia reversa
49
10Hebrew (he)
הנדוס לאחור
48
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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 "Reverse engineering" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Reverse engineering
3
2Arabic (ar)
هندسة عكسية
2
3Japanese (ja)
リバースエンジニアリング
2
4Azerbaijani (az)
Tərsinə mühəndislik
1
5German (de)
Reverse Engineering
1
6Spanish (es)
Ingeniería inversa
1
7Persian (fa)
مهندسی معکوس
1
8Hindi (hi)
उत्क्रम अभियांत्रिकी
1
9Portuguese (pt)
Engenharia reversa
1
10Russian (ru)
Обратная разработка
1
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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 "Reverse engineering" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Reverse engineering
1 031
2Japanese (ja)
リバースエンジニアリング
454
3Chinese (zh)
逆向工程
401
4French (fr)
Rétro-ingénierie
342
5Spanish (es)
Ingeniería inversa
306
6German (de)
Reverse Engineering
297
7Russian (ru)
Обратная разработка
273
8Indonesian (id)
Rekayasa balik
172
9Persian (fa)
مهندسی معکوس
168
10Ukrainian (uk)
Зворотна розробка
157
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
هندسة عكسية
azAzerbaijani
Tərsinə mühəndislik
bgBulgarian
Обратно инженерство
caCatalan
Enginyeria inversa
csCzech
Reverzní inženýrství
daDanish
Reverse engineering
deGerman
Reverse Engineering
elGreek
Αντίστροφη μηχανική
enEnglish
Reverse engineering
esSpanish
Ingeniería inversa
etEstonian
Pöördprojekteerimine
euBasque
Alderantzizko ingeniaritza
faPersian
مهندسی معکوس
fiFinnish
Takaisinmallinnus
frFrench
Rétro-ingénierie
heHebrew
הנדוס לאחור
hiHindi
उत्क्रम अभियांत्रिकी
idIndonesian
Rekayasa balik
itItalian
Reverse engineering
jaJapanese
リバースエンジニアリング
koKorean
역공학
msMalay
Kejuruteraan balikan
nlDutch
Reverse engineering
noNorwegian
Dekonstruksjon (teknologi)
plPolish
Inżynieria odwrotna
ptPortuguese
Engenharia reversa
roRomanian
Inginerie inversă
ruRussian
Обратная разработка
shSerbo-Croatian
Obrnuti inženjering
srSerbian
Обрнути инжењеринг
svSwedish
Reverse engineering
taTamil
பின்னோக்குப் பொறியியல்
thThai
วิศวกรรมผันกลับ
trTurkish
Tersine mühendislik
ukUkrainian
Зворотна розробка
viVietnamese
Kỹ thuật đảo ngược
zhChinese
逆向工程

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13301
12.2014
Global:
#12837
03.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#112
04.2001
Global:
#117
04.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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