Smectite

Smectite mineral group - predominantly monoclinic 2:1 phyllosilicates. Article “Smectite” in English Wikipedia has 32.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.7 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Smectite”, its content was written by 11 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 113 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 210 times in English Wikipedia and cited 524 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #65842 in May 2022
• Global: #88530 in May 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #313775 in February 2011
• Global: #337504 in December 2008

There are 14 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	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		37.2337
2	English (en) Smectite		32.3798
3	German (de) Smektitgruppe		30.2942
4	French (fr) Smectite		26.6329
5	Catalan (ca) Grup de l'esmectita		25.5437
6	Russian (ru) Смектиты		17.7881
7	Polish (pl) Smektyty		10.7254
8	Hebrew (he) קבוצת הסמקטיט		9.1318
9	Slovak (sk) Smektit		5.5491
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Smektitt		5.5062

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smectite		321 794
2	German (de) Smektitgruppe		119 398
3	French (fr) Smectite		91 526
4	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		35 826
5	Polish (pl) Smektyty		29 983
6	Dutch (nl) Smectiet		17 602
7	Russian (ru) Смектиты		16 502
8	Czech (cs) Smektit		11 131
9	Hebrew (he) קבוצת הסמקטיט		5 159
10	Vietnamese (vi) Smectit		4 912

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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 "Smectite" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smectite		1 512
2	French (fr) Smectite		328
3	German (de) Smektitgruppe		254
4	Russian (ru) Смектиты		218
5	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		76
6	Polish (pl) Smektyty		48
7	Czech (cs) Smektit		32
8	Dutch (nl) Smectiet		26
9	Catalan (ca) Grup de l'esmectita		15
10	Slovak (sk) Smektit		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Smektitgruppe		34
2	French (fr) Smectite		13
3	English (en) Smectite		11
4	Dutch (nl) Smectiet		8
5	Polish (pl) Smektyty		8
6	Czech (cs) Smektit		7
7	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		7
8	Slovak (sk) Smektit		5
9	Vietnamese (vi) Smectit		5
10	Hebrew (he) קבוצת הסמקטיט		4

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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 "Smectite" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Grup de l'esmectita		1
2	Czech (cs) Smektit		0
3	German (de) Smektitgruppe		0
4	English (en) Smectite		0
5	French (fr) Smectite		0
6	Hebrew (he) קבוצת הסמקטיט		0
7	Dutch (nl) Smectiet		0
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Smektitt		0
9	Polish (pl) Smektyty		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		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 "Smectite" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Smectite		210
2	German (de) Smektitgruppe		68
3	French (fr) Smectite		66
4	Portuguese (pt) Esmectite		42
5	Catalan (ca) Grup de l'esmectita		35
6	Dutch (nl) Smectiet		21
7	Hebrew (he) קבוצת הסמקטיט		18
8	Polish (pl) Smektyty		12
9	Slovak (sk) Smektit		12
10	Russian (ru) Смектиты		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Grup de l'esmectita
cs	Czech Smektit
de	German Smektitgruppe
en	English Smectite
fr	French Smectite
he	Hebrew קבוצת הסמקטיט
nl	Dutch Smectiet
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Smektitt
pl	Polish Smektyty
pt	Portuguese Esmectite
ru	Russian Смектиты
sk	Slovak Smektit
uk	Ukrainian Смектити
vi	Vietnamese Smectit

Best Rank

English: #313775 02.2011

Global: #337504 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #65842 05.2022

Global: #88530 05.2022

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