Search and rescue

Quality:

Search and rescue - search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. Article “Search and rescue” in English Wikipedia has 89 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 186 references and 53 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.68 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Search and rescue” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Search and rescue”, its content was written by 491 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1224 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3077 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9841 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5649 in September 2018
• Global: #7581 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4331 in May 2015
• Global: #9665 in May 2015

There are 34 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	English (en) Search and rescue		88.9775
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Redningsteneste		48.7677
3	Czech (cs) Pátrání a záchrana		45.6385
4	Russian (ru) Поисково-спасательные работы		44.4463
5	French (fr) Recherche et sauvetage		41.0147
6	Indonesian (id) Pencarian dan penyelamatan		40.8932
7	Dutch (nl) Opsporing en redding		40.5453
8	Turkish (tr) Arama-kurtarma		39.4497
9	Norwegian (no) Redningstjeneste		30.6255
10	Greek (el) Έρευνα και διάσωση		30.4553

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Search and rescue		3 076 875
2	Spanish (es) Búsqueda y rescate		525 627
3	Indonesian (id) Pencarian dan penyelamatan		315 733
4	Italian (it) Ricerca e soccorso		237 629
5	French (fr) Recherche et sauvetage		223 537
6	Japanese (ja) 捜索救難		201 247
7	Polish (pl) Działania poszukiwawczo-ratownicze		159 267
8	Russian (ru) Поисково-спасательные работы		150 677
9	Persian (fa) عملیات امداد و نجات		118 589
10	Dutch (nl) Opsporing en redding		91 927

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) Search and rescue		6 346
2	Spanish (es) Búsqueda y rescate		572
3	French (fr) Recherche et sauvetage		452
4	Italian (it) Ricerca e soccorso		412
5	Japanese (ja) 捜索救難		387
6	Russian (ru) Поисково-спасательные работы		316
7	Persian (fa) عملیات امداد و نجات		279
8	Chinese (zh) 搜索与救援		256
9	German (de) Menschenrettung		238
10	Polish (pl) Działania poszukiwawczo-ratownicze		231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Search and rescue		491
2	French (fr) Recherche et sauvetage		93
3	Spanish (es) Búsqueda y rescate		75
4	Dutch (nl) Opsporing en redding		65
5	Italian (it) Ricerca e soccorso		63
6	German (de) Menschenrettung		37
7	Japanese (ja) 捜索救難		35
8	Russian (ru) Поисково-спасательные работы		35
9	Danish (da) Search and rescue		32
10	Polish (pl) Działania poszukiwawczo-ratownicze		32

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) Search and rescue		2
2	Persian (fa) عملیات امداد و نجات		2
3	French (fr) Recherche et sauvetage		2
4	Korean (ko) 탐색 구조		1
5	Arabic (ar) البحث والإنقاذ		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Axtarış-xilasetmə		0
7	Catalan (ca) Recerca i rescat		0
8	Czech (cs) Pátrání a záchrana		0
9	Danish (da) Search and rescue		0
10	German (de) Menschenrettung		0

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

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