Tunnelling shield

Tunnelling shield - protective structure used during the excavation of tunnels. Article “Tunnelling shield” in English Wikipedia has 33.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.77 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Tunnelling shield”, its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 121 times in English Wikipedia and cited 823 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5879 in October 2003
• Global: #14293 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35453 in January 2012
• Global: #31979 in February 2012

There are 12 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	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		49.7146
2	English (en) Tunnelling shield		33.9162
3	Catalan (ca) Escut tunelador		29.8877
4	Chinese (zh) 鑽挖式隧道		27.5688
5	Spanish (es) Escudo tunelador		24.1018
6	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		21.3411
7	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		20.0536
8	Persian (fa) سپر تونل		20.0133
9	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		19.7962
10	Vietnamese (vi) Khiên đào đường hầm		15.8385

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tunnelling shield" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		943 752
2	English (en) Tunnelling shield		645 840
3	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		368 237
4	Chinese (zh) 鑽挖式隧道		189 916
5	German (de) Schildvortrieb		164 659
6	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		52 961
7	Vietnamese (vi) Khiên đào đường hầm		14 703
8	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		6 433
9	Spanish (es) Escudo tunelador		2 994
10	Portuguese (pt) Tuneladora escudo		1 123

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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 "Tunnelling shield" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tunnelling shield		2 561
2	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		1 521
3	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		1 417
4	German (de) Schildvortrieb		648
5	Chinese (zh) 鑽挖式隧道		573
6	Spanish (es) Escudo tunelador		250
7	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		95
8	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		61
9	Vietnamese (vi) Khiên đào đường hầm		31
10	Portuguese (pt) Tuneladora escudo		15

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		97
2	English (en) Tunnelling shield		62
3	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		53
4	German (de) Schildvortrieb		52
5	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		51
6	Chinese (zh) 鑽挖式隧道		32
7	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		11
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khiên đào đường hầm		8
9	Portuguese (pt) Tuneladora escudo		6
10	Catalan (ca) Escut tunelador		2

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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 "Tunnelling shield" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schildvortrieb		1
2	Catalan (ca) Escut tunelador		0
3	English (en) Tunnelling shield		0
4	Spanish (es) Escudo tunelador		0
5	Persian (fa) سپر تونل		0
6	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		0
7	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Tuneladora escudo		0
9	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		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 "Tunnelling shield" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) シールドトンネル		231
2	German (de) Schildvortrieb		130
3	English (en) Tunnelling shield		121
4	Chinese (zh) 鑽挖式隧道		118
5	Russian (ru) Проходческий щит		97
6	Dutch (nl) Geboorde tunnel		72
7	Ukrainian (uk) Прохідницький щит		27
8	Spanish (es) Escudo tunelador		8
9	Vietnamese (vi) Khiên đào đường hầm		8
10	Portuguese (pt) Tuneladora escudo		7

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Escut tunelador
de	German Schildvortrieb
en	English Tunnelling shield
es	Spanish Escudo tunelador
fa	Persian سپر تونل
ja	Japanese シールドトンネル
nl	Dutch Geboorde tunnel
pt	Portuguese Tuneladora escudo
ru	Russian Проходческий щит
uk	Ukrainian Прохідницький щит
vi	Vietnamese Khiên đào đường hầm
zh	Chinese 鑽挖式隧道

Best Rank

English: #35453 01.2012

Global: #31979 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #5879 10.2003

Global: #14293 10.2003

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