Specific impulse

Quality:

Specific impulse - how efficiently a reaction mass engine creates thrust, which is often proportional to effective exhaust gas velocity. Article “Specific impulse” in English Wikipedia has 68.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 114 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.61 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 2025 the article “Specific impulse” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Specific impulse”, its content was written by 241 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 734 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 791 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4084 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5027 in May 2004
• Global: #3051 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #395 in December 2014
• Global: #1864 in December 2014

There are 31 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) Specific impulse		68.4677
2	Simple English (simple) Specific impulse		42.8639
3	Tamil (ta) தன் கணத்தாக்கம்		26.5844
4	Persian (fa) تکانه ویژه		25.8431
5	Indonesian (id) Impuls spesifik		24.0644
6	Spanish (es) Impulso específico		22.3278
7	Serbian (sr) Специфични импулс		21.3976
8	Slovak (sk) Merný impulz		21.1408
9	Arabic (ar) اندفاع نوعي		19.6652
10	Turkish (tr) Özgül itici kuvvet		19.1574

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Specific impulse		3 665 231
2	Russian (ru) Удельный импульс		465 223
3	Japanese (ja) 比推力		280 354
4	German (de) Spezifischer Impuls		251 912
5	French (fr) Impulsion spécifique		193 512
6	Polish (pl) Impuls właściwy		114 391
7	Chinese (zh) 比冲		111 346
8	Italian (it) Impulso specifico		104 081
9	Spanish (es) Impulso específico		100 341
10	Czech (cs) Specifický impuls		40 840

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) Specific impulse		12 189
2	Russian (ru) Удельный импульс		1 360
3	Japanese (ja) 比推力		883
4	French (fr) Impulsion spécifique		841
5	Simple English (simple) Specific impulse		834
6	German (de) Spezifischer Impuls		623
7	Chinese (zh) 比冲		545
8	Polish (pl) Impuls właściwy		521
9	Italian (it) Impulso specifico		443
10	Spanish (es) Impulso específico		198

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Specific impulse		241
2	German (de) Spezifischer Impuls		89
3	French (fr) Impulsion spécifique		67
4	Russian (ru) Удельный импульс		54
5	Italian (it) Impulso specifico		37
6	Dutch (nl) Specifieke stoot		35
7	Chinese (zh) 比冲		27
8	Japanese (ja) 比推力		21
9	Polish (pl) Impuls właściwy		21
10	Spanish (es) Impulso específico		17

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) Specific impulse		1
2	French (fr) Impulsion spécifique		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Impulso específico		1
4	Arabic (ar) اندفاع نوعي		0
5	Catalan (ca) Impuls específic		0
6	Czech (cs) Specifický impuls		0
7	German (de) Spezifischer Impuls		0
8	Spanish (es) Impulso específico		0
9	Persian (fa) تکانه ویژه		0
10	Finnish (fi) Ominaisimpulssi		0

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

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