Roller chain

Roller chain - type of chain drive. Article “Roller chain” in English Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 14 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Roller chain”, its content was written by 142 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 331 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 341 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1369 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39520 in April 2006
• Global: #57594 in November 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #89517 in March 2012
• Global: #82019 in November 2011

There are 13 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, 2026 (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	Catalan (ca) Cadena de rodets		57.6688
2	English (en) Roller chain		55.2398
3	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		25.4434
4	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		24.6739
5	Chinese (zh) 滚子链		24.4872
6	Ukrainian (uk) Роликовий ланцюг		22.3881
7	Italian (it) Catena articolata Galle		21.4962
8	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		20.3556
9	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		17.4764
10	Swedish (sv) Rullkedja		10.5093

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Roller chain" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roller chain		1 480 498
2	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		472 464
3	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		329 761
4	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		87 885
5	Chinese (zh) 滚子链		36 427
6	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		30 804
7	Norwegian (no) Kjede		30 753
8	Polish (pl) Łańcuch rolkowy		28 611
9	Italian (it) Catena articolata Galle		20 176
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kjede		7 043

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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 "Roller chain" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roller chain		1 606
2	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		497
3	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		181
4	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		170
5	Chinese (zh) 滚子链		161
6	Polish (pl) Łańcuch rolkowy		67
7	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		55
8	Italian (it) Catena articolata Galle		55
9	Swedish (sv) Rullkedja		19
10	Catalan (ca) Cadena de rodets		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roller chain		142
2	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		65
3	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		37
4	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		23
5	Norwegian (no) Kjede		13
6	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		11
7	Italian (it) Catena articolata Galle		10
8	Chinese (zh) 滚子链		7
9	Polish (pl) Łańcuch rolkowy		6
10	Ukrainian (uk) Роликовий ланцюг		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 "Roller chain" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Cadena de rodets		1
2	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		1
3	English (en) Roller chain		0
4	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		0
5	Italian (it) Catena articolata Galle		0
6	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		0
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kjede		0
8	Norwegian (no) Kjede		0
9	Polish (pl) Łańcuch rolkowy		0
10	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		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 "Roller chain" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ローラーチェーン		468
2	English (en) Roller chain		341
3	French (fr) Chaîne à rouleaux		328
4	Chinese (zh) 滚子链		57
5	Catalan (ca) Cadena de rodets		47
6	Russian (ru) Роликовая цепь		37
7	Spanish (es) Cadena de rodillos		23
8	Norwegian (no) Kjede		22
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kjede		18
10	Polish (pl) Łańcuch rolkowy		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Cadena de rodets
en	English Roller chain
es	Spanish Cadena de rodillos
fr	French Chaîne à rouleaux
it	Italian Catena articolata Galle
ja	Japanese ローラーチェーン
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Kjede
no	Norwegian Kjede
pl	Polish Łańcuch rolkowy
ru	Russian Роликовая цепь
sv	Swedish Rullkedja
uk	Ukrainian Роликовий ланцюг
zh	Chinese 滚子链

Best Rank

English: #89517 03.2012

Global: #82019 11.2011

Best Rank

English: #39520 04.2006

Global: #57594 11.2017

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