Ultraviolet

Quality:

Ultraviolet radiation - form of electromagnetic radiation. Article “Ultraviolet” in English Wikipedia has 90.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 170 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5249^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3289^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2756^th most popular in all topics.

The 2665^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9208^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ultraviolet” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9208^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ultraviolet”, its content was written by 1336 registered users of English Wikipedia (3289^th place) and edited by 4679 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2665^th place).

The article is cited 6055 times in English Wikipedia (3806^th place) and cited 37416 times in all languages (4503^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #84 in March 2002
• Global: #109 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1897 in February 2009
• Global: #1409 in April 2020

There are 54 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	Korean (ko) 자외선		92.6727
2	Turkish (tr) Ultraviyole		92.495
3	English (en) Ultraviolet		90.8393
4	Croatian (hr) Ultraljubičasto zračenje		86.9922
5	Esperanto (eo) Ultraviola radiado		85.863
6	Estonian (et) Ultraviolettkiirgus		83.1678
7	German (de) Ultraviolettstrahlung		78.0294
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ultraljubičasto zračenje		70.5672
9	Spanish (es) Radiación ultravioleta		63.9661
10	French (fr) Ultraviolet		60.042

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ultraviolet		20 826 212
2	Spanish (es) Radiación ultravioleta		5 473 329
3	German (de) Ultraviolettstrahlung		4 657 629
4	Russian (ru) Ультрафиолетовое излучение		4 319 186
5	Japanese (ja) 紫外線		3 406 577
6	French (fr) Ultraviolet		2 294 305
7	Polish (pl) Ultrafiolet		1 898 905
8	Portuguese (pt) Radiação ultravioleta		1 698 538
9	Arabic (ar) الأشعة فوق البنفسجية		1 465 286
10	Italian (it) Radiazione ultravioletta		1 381 582

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) Ultraviolet		31 227
2	German (de) Ultraviolettstrahlung		6 292
3	Russian (ru) Ультрафиолетовое излучение		4 919
4	French (fr) Ultraviolet		3 877
5	Spanish (es) Radiación ultravioleta		3 445
6	Japanese (ja) 紫外線		2 808
7	Chinese (zh) 紫外线		2 088
8	Italian (it) Radiazione ultravioletta		1 922
9	Polish (pl) Ultrafiolet		1 798
10	Persian (fa) فرابنفش		1 733

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ultraviolet		1 336
2	German (de) Ultraviolettstrahlung		463
3	French (fr) Ultraviolet		281
4	Spanish (es) Radiación ultravioleta		191
5	Russian (ru) Ультрафиолетовое излучение		175
6	Dutch (nl) Ultraviolet		174
7	Italian (it) Radiazione ultravioletta		164
8	Japanese (ja) 紫外線		139
9	Hebrew (he) על-סגול		106
10	Chinese (zh) 紫外线		97

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	Danish (da) Ultraviolet lys		3
2	Italian (it) Radiazione ultravioletta		3
3	Arabic (ar) الأشعة فوق البنفسجية		2
4	English (en) Ultraviolet		2
5	Croatian (hr) Ultraljubičasto zračenje		2
6	Korean (ko) 자외선		2
7	Czech (cs) Ultrafialové záření		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Ultraviola radiado		1
9	Estonian (et) Ultraviolettkiirgus		1
10	Basque (eu) Ultramore		1

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

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