Shale gas

Quality:

Shale gas - natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Article “Shale gas” in English Wikipedia has 82.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 132 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.17 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Shale gas”, its content was written by 266 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1455 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 559 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2276 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6453 in June 2011
• Global: #1916 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7196 in December 2014
• Global: #1817 in January 2015

There are 36 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	French (fr) Gaz de schiste		85.42
2	English (en) Shale gas		82.5727
3	Chinese (zh) 页岩气		69.576
4	Dutch (nl) Schaliegas		59.0873
5	Russian (ru) Сланцевый газ		58.4868
6	Ukrainian (uk) Сланцевий газ		50.9154
7	German (de) Schiefergas		48.6582
8	Japanese (ja) シェールガス		45.3103
9	Polish (pl) Gaz z łupków		44.5003
10	Lithuanian (lt) Skalūnų dujos		38.2482

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shale gas		4 399 937
2	Russian (ru) Сланцевый газ		2 588 776
3	French (fr) Gaz de schiste		2 550 237
4	Japanese (ja) シェールガス		2 150 392
5	Polish (pl) Gaz z łupków		565 683
6	Spanish (es) Gas de lutita		518 902
7	Dutch (nl) Schaliegas		491 615
8	German (de) Schiefergas		381 304
9	Chinese (zh) 页岩气		369 381
10	Italian (it) Gas da argille		273 066

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) Shale gas		1 971
2	French (fr) Gaz de schiste		1 321
3	Japanese (ja) シェールガス		846
4	Russian (ru) Сланцевый газ		569
5	Spanish (es) Gas de lutita		515
6	Chinese (zh) 页岩气		372
7	Dutch (nl) Schaliegas		325
8	Polish (pl) Gaz z łupków		231
9	German (de) Schiefergas		221
10	Turkish (tr) Kaya gazı		148

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Gaz de schiste		316
2	English (en) Shale gas		266
3	Dutch (nl) Schaliegas		102
4	Russian (ru) Сланцевый газ		99
5	German (de) Schiefergas		87
6	Polish (pl) Gaz z łupków		77
7	Japanese (ja) シェールガス		58
8	Italian (it) Gas da argille		43
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сланцевий газ		37
10	Czech (cs) Břidlicový plyn		36

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	Arabic (ar) غاز الأردواز		1
2	Catalan (ca) Gas de lutita		1
3	Czech (cs) Břidlicový plyn		1
4	German (de) Schiefergas		1
5	Basque (eu) Eskisto-gas		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Palagáz		1
7	Dutch (nl) Schaliegas		1
8	Tamil (ta) களிப்பாறை வளிமம்		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сланцевий газ		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Şist qazı		0

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

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