Thin section

Thin section - laboratory preparation rock, mineral, soil, pottery, bones, metal for petrographic microscope. Article “Thin section” in English Wikipedia has 43.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Thin section”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 185 times in English Wikipedia and cited 777 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #88428 in November 2012
• Global: #35189 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #389640 in January 2022
• Global: #226489 in December 2008

There are 16 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) Thin section		43.9128
2	German (de) Dünnschliff		41.4016
3	Spanish (es) Lámina delgada (geología)		30.9221
4	French (fr) Lame mince		26.2111
5	Russian (ru) Шлиф		15.43
6	Ukrainian (uk) Шліф		14.8647
7	Arabic (ar) شريحة رقيقة		14.4617
8	Portuguese (pt) Lâmina delgada		14.1886
9	Japanese (ja) 薄片		10.9636
10	Catalan (ca) Làmina prima		6.0377

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thin section		250 295
2	Russian (ru) Шлиф		82 994
3	German (de) Dünnschliff		69 773
4	Spanish (es) Lámina delgada (geología)		57 288
5	French (fr) Lame mince		54 762
6	Italian (it) Sezione sottile		24 996
7	Portuguese (pt) Lâmina delgada		23 767
8	Dutch (nl) Slijpplaatje		13 186
9	Arabic (ar) شريحة رقيقة		11 822
10	Ukrainian (uk) Шліф		10 226

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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 "Thin section" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thin section		752
2	Russian (ru) Шлиф		223
3	German (de) Dünnschliff		166
4	French (fr) Lame mince		136
5	Spanish (es) Lámina delgada (geología)		91
6	Italian (it) Sezione sottile		69
7	Japanese (ja) 薄片		44
8	Portuguese (pt) Lâmina delgada		38
9	Estonian (et) Õhik		26
10	Dutch (nl) Slijpplaatje		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Dünnschliff		55
2	English (en) Thin section		43
3	French (fr) Lame mince		28
4	Russian (ru) Шлиф		19
5	Italian (it) Sezione sottile		17
6	Dutch (nl) Slijpplaatje		14
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шліф		11
8	Catalan (ca) Làmina prima		6
9	Japanese (ja) 薄片		6
10	Belarusian (be) Шліф		5

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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 "Thin section" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Dünnschliff		1
2	Arabic (ar) شريحة رقيقة		0
3	Belarusian (be) Шліф		0
4	Catalan (ca) Làmina prima		0
5	English (en) Thin section		0
6	Spanish (es) Lámina delgada (geología)		0
7	Estonian (et) Õhik		0
8	French (fr) Lame mince		0
9	Armenian (hy) Շլիֆ		0
10	Italian (it) Sezione sottile		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 "Thin section" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Dünnschliff		209
2	English (en) Thin section		185
3	French (fr) Lame mince		73
4	Russian (ru) Шлиф		67
5	Ukrainian (uk) Шліф		48
6	Dutch (nl) Slijpplaatje		40
7	Spanish (es) Lámina delgada (geología)		38
8	Catalan (ca) Làmina prima		27
9	Italian (it) Sezione sottile		24
10	Portuguese (pt) Lâmina delgada		23

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شريحة رقيقة
be	Belarusian Шліф
ca	Catalan Làmina prima
de	German Dünnschliff
en	English Thin section
es	Spanish Lámina delgada (geología)
et	Estonian Õhik
fr	French Lame mince
hy	Armenian Շլիֆ
it	Italian Sezione sottile
ja	Japanese 薄片
nl	Dutch Slijpplaatje
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Tynnslip
pt	Portuguese Lâmina delgada
ru	Russian Шлиф
uk	Ukrainian Шліф

Best Rank

English: #389640 01.2022

Global: #226489 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #88428 11.2012

Global: #35189 10.2003

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