Timeline of solar cells

Timeline of solar cells - aspect of history. Article “Timeline of solar cells” in English Wikipedia has 70.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 73 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.46 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Timeline of solar cells” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Timeline of solar cells”, its content was written by 186 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 368 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 201 times in English Wikipedia and cited 300 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12037 in March 2014
• Global: #36339 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #103293 in April 2012
• Global: #136059 in March 2008

There are 6 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	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		91.7854
2	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		70.6076
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		41.0772
4	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		32.4299
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		20.54
6	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		13.8885

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of solar cells" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		774 428
2	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		280 169
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		82 481
4	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		33 940
5	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		5 951
6	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		2 555

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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 "Timeline of solar cells" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		1 582
2	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		1 268
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		304
4	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		29
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		21
6	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		186
2	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		118
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		37
4	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		17
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		6
6	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		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 "Timeline of solar cells" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		5
2	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		1
3	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		0
4	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		0
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		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 "Timeline of solar cells" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Timeline of solar cells		201
2	French (fr) Histoire de l'énergie solaire		53
3	German (de) Geschichte der Photovoltaik		33
4	Danish (da) Tidslinje for solenergi		9
5	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares		4
6	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池の年表		0

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Tidslinje for solenergi
de	German Geschichte der Photovoltaik
en	English Timeline of solar cells
fr	French Histoire de l'énergie solaire
ja	Japanese 太陽電池の年表
pt	Portuguese Cronologia do desenvolvimento das células solares

Best Rank

English: #103293 04.2012

Global: #136059 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #12037 03.2014

Global: #36339 06.2016

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