Static electricity

Quality:

Static electricity - imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material. Article “Static electricity” in English Wikipedia has 62.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.31 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Static electricity” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Static electricity”, its content was written by 447 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1422 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 421 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2550 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3601 in March 2003
• Global: #5178 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4952 in January 2014
• Global: #7385 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, 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	Chinese (zh) 静电		70.7505
2	English (en) Static electricity		62.8785
3	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		50.0306
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Statički elektricitet		47.0957
5	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		45.1692
6	Malay (ms) Elektrik statik		41.1121
7	Indonesian (id) Listrik statis		35.9582
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Statisk elektrisitet		33.835
9	Estonian (et) Staatiline elekter		31.579
10	Serbian (sr) Statički elektricitet		28.0393

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Static electricity		6 251 292
2	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		3 194 424
3	Japanese (ja) 静電気		1 360 407
4	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		948 205
5	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		884 379
6	Portuguese (pt) Eletricidade estática		857 014
7	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		808 187
8	Indonesian (id) Listrik statis		588 291
9	Chinese (zh) 静电		433 619
10	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		360 851

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		12 822
2	Chinese (zh) 静电		2 128
3	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		1 758
4	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		1 234
5	Japanese (ja) 静電気		1 050
6	Simple English (simple) Static electricity		970
7	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		709
8	French (fr) Électricité statique		574
9	Korean (ko) 정전기		568
10	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้าสถิต		545

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		447
2	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		107
3	Dutch (nl) Statische elektriciteit		91
4	Portuguese (pt) Eletricidade estática		66
5	Russian (ru) Статическое электричество		62
6	Italian (it) Elettricità statica		60
7	Japanese (ja) 静電気		60
8	Hebrew (he) חשמל סטטי		59
9	Turkish (tr) Statik elektrik		56
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		5
2	Chinese (zh) 静电		2
3	Indonesian (id) Listrik statis		1
4	Arabic (ar) كهرباء ساكنة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Statik elektrik		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Статично електричество		0
7	Catalan (ca) Electricitat estàtica		0
8	Czech (cs) Statická elektřina		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Statika elektro		0
10	Spanish (es) Electricidad estática		0

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

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