S wave

Secondary wave - transverse seismic wave. Article “S wave” in English Wikipedia has 40.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 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 “S wave”, its content was written by 152 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 250 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 366 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1076 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19981 in April 2011
• Global: #65085 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #46655 in June 2015
• Global: #82776 in March 2011

There are 17 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) S wave		40.4253
2	Indonesian (id) Gelombang-S		25.7757
3	Malay (ms) Gelombang S		25.1346
4	Estonian (et) S-laine		24.7166
5	Turkish (tr) S dalgası		23.1747
6	Catalan (ca) Ones S		22.7225
7	Greek (el) Κύμα S		22.013
8	Spanish (es) Onda S		17.9015
9	Chinese (zh) S波		17.0662
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sóng S		14.099

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "S wave" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) S wave		1 844 069
2	Chinese (zh) S波		98 737
3	Russian (ru) S-волна		54 308
4	Spanish (es) Onda S		30 286
5	Dutch (nl) S-golf		27 239
6	Persian (fa) موج اس		26 067
7	Korean (ko) S파		22 917
8	Turkish (tr) S dalgası		19 656
9	Arabic (ar) موجة S		10 641
10	Indonesian (id) Gelombang-S		6 229

More...

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 "S wave" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) S wave		3 033
2	Chinese (zh) S波		353
3	Korean (ko) S파		277
4	Russian (ru) S-волна		149
5	Spanish (es) Onda S		126
6	Turkish (tr) S dalgası		75
7	Indonesian (id) Gelombang-S		55
8	Dutch (nl) S-golf		38
9	Arabic (ar) موجة S		32
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sóng S		32

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) S wave		152
2	Korean (ko) S파		13
3	Dutch (nl) S-golf		13
4	Chinese (zh) S波		12
5	Russian (ru) S-волна		11
6	Turkish (tr) S dalgası		8
7	Serbian (sr) С талас		7
8	Spanish (es) Onda S		6
9	Persian (fa) موج اس		6
10	Estonian (et) S-laine		5

More...

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

Language versions of the article "S wave" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) S-dalğa		1
2	Arabic (ar) موجة S		0
3	Catalan (ca) Ones S		0
4	Greek (el) Κύμα S		0
5	English (en) S wave		0
6	Spanish (es) Onda S		0
7	Estonian (et) S-laine		0
8	Persian (fa) موج اس		0
9	Indonesian (id) Gelombang-S		0
10	Korean (ko) S파		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "S wave" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) S wave		366
2	Korean (ko) S파		163
3	Chinese (zh) S波		147
4	Arabic (ar) موجة S		83
5	Indonesian (id) Gelombang-S		70
6	Persian (fa) موج اس		48
7	Russian (ru) S-волна		44
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sóng S		38
9	Turkish (tr) S dalgası		33
10	Spanish (es) Onda S		20

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic موجة S
az	Azerbaijani S-dalğa
ca	Catalan Ones S
el	Greek Κύμα S
en	English S wave
es	Spanish Onda S
et	Estonian S-laine
fa	Persian موج اس
id	Indonesian Gelombang-S
ko	Korean S파
ms	Malay Gelombang S
nl	Dutch S-golf
ru	Russian S-волна
sr	Serbian С талас
tr	Turkish S dalgası
vi	Vietnamese Sóng S
zh	Chinese S波

Best Rank

English: #46655 06.2015

Global: #82776 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #19981 04.2011

Global: #65085 01.2014

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ajit Pawar, Border 2, Sharad Pawar, Killing of Alex Pretti, Ilhan Omar, Sunetra Pawar, Todd Monken, Kristi Noem, Wonder Man (miniseries), Gregory Bovino.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information