Static electricity

Quality:

Static electricity - imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material. Article “Static electricity” in English Wikipedia has 63.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 33 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.32 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Static electricity” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Static electricity”, its content was written by 464 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1465 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 428 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2570 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3600 in March 2003
• Global: #5173 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4993 in January 2014
• Global: #7408 in January 2014

There are 37 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	Chinese (zh) 静电		70.6739
2	English (en) Static electricity		63.1714
3	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		49.0008
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Statički elektricitet		48.0666
5	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		45.3239
6	Malay (ms) Elektrik statik		40.5857
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Statisk elektrisitet		33.835
8	Indonesian (id) Listrik statis		33.8152
9	Estonian (et) Staatiline elekter		31.0029
10	Serbian (sr) Statički elektricitet		28.0483

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Static electricity		6 409 490
2	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		3 218 704
3	Japanese (ja) 静電気		1 393 532
4	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		1 005 386
5	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		957 425
6	Portuguese (pt) Eletricidade estática		818 921
7	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		814 124
8	Indonesian (id) Listrik statis		594 831
9	Chinese (zh) 静电		456 938
10	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		365 802

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) Static electricity		9 317
2	Italian (it) Elettricità statica		1 922
3	Japanese (ja) 静電気		1 492
4	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		1 205
5	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		1 020
6	Chinese (zh) 静电		984
7	French (fr) Électricité statique		480
8	Korean (ko) 정전기		356
9	Dutch (nl) Statische elektriciteit		261
10	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		202

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Static electricity		464
2	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		110
3	Dutch (nl) Statische elektriciteit		91
4	Portuguese (pt) Eletricidade estática		68
5	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		65
6	Italian (it) Elettricità statica		63
7	Japanese (ja) 静電気		63
8	Hebrew (he) חשמל סטטי		61
9	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		59
10	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		52

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) Static electricity		4
2	Italian (it) Elettricità statica		3
3	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Statik elektrik		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Статично електричество		0
6	Catalan (ca) Electricitat estàtica		0
7	Czech (cs) Statická elektřina		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Statika elektro		0
9	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		0
10	Estonian (et) Staatiline elekter		0

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

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