Work function

Work function - difference of the energy of an electron at rest at infinity and the Fermi energy. Article "Work function" in English Wikipedia has 60.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 15 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Work function" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Work function", its content was written by 118 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 460 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 165 times in English Wikipedia and cited 677 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6850 in May 2002
• Global: #2028 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #43936 in November 2014
• Global: #31782 in March 2015

There are 31 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) Work function		60.8758
2	Hungarian (hu) Kilépési munka		55.6893
3	Croatian (hr) Izlazni rad materijala		29.4602
4	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		28.7274
5	Italian (it) Lavoro di estrazione		27.9603
6	Chinese (zh) 功函数		22.0136
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Izlazni rad materijala		19.7747
8	Portuguese (pt) Função trabalho		17.5628
9	Ukrainian (uk) Робота виходу		16.039
10	Urdu (ur) کام عمل		15.0245

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Work function" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Work function		2 739 419
2	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		446 866
3	Russian (ru) Работа выхода		396 131
4	Japanese (ja) 仕事関数		371 321
5	Chinese (zh) 功函数		312 487
6	Polish (pl) Praca wyjścia		269 982
7	Spanish (es) Función de trabajo		247 391
8	Italian (it) Lavoro di estrazione		126 290
9	Korean (ko) 일함수		119 058
10	Ukrainian (uk) Робота виходу		100 649

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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 "Work function" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Work function		5 948
2	Chinese (zh) 功函数		924
3	Russian (ru) Работа выхода		805
4	Japanese (ja) 仕事関数		744
5	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		732
6	Korean (ko) 일함수		367
7	Italian (it) Lavoro di estrazione		231
8	Polish (pl) Praca wyjścia		229
9	French (fr) Travail de sortie		219
10	Spanish (es) Función de trabajo		217

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Work function		118
2	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		64
3	Italian (it) Lavoro di estrazione		40
4	French (fr) Travail de sortie		29
5	Russian (ru) Работа выхода		29
6	Spanish (es) Función de trabajo		18
7	Danish (da) Løsrivelsesarbejde		16
8	Polish (pl) Praca wyjścia		16
9	Chinese (zh) 功函数		15
10	Japanese (ja) 仕事関数		13

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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 "Work function" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Work function		1
2	Hungarian (hu) Kilépési munka		1
3	Arabic (ar) دالة شغل		0
4	Catalan (ca) Funció de treball		0
5	Danish (da) Løsrivelsesarbejde		0
6	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		0
7	Greek (el) Έργο εξαγωγής		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Forpuŝa laboro		0
9	Spanish (es) Función de trabajo		0
10	Persian (fa) تابع کار		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 "Work function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Work function		165
2	German (de) Austrittsarbeit		89
3	Portuguese (pt) Função trabalho		57
4	Japanese (ja) 仕事関数		49
5	Russian (ru) Работа выхода		44
6	French (fr) Travail de sortie		30
7	Persian (fa) تابع کار		26
8	Chinese (zh) 功函数		26
9	Ukrainian (uk) Робота виходу		24
10	Italian (it) Lavoro di estrazione		22

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دالة شغل
ca	Catalan Funció de treball
da	Danish Løsrivelsesarbejde
de	German Austrittsarbeit
el	Greek Έργο εξαγωγής
en	English Work function
eo	Esperanto Forpuŝa laboro
es	Spanish Función de trabajo
fa	Persian تابع کار
fr	French Travail de sortie
he	Hebrew פונקציית עבודה
hi	Hindi कार्य फलन
hr	Croatian Izlazni rad materijala
hu	Hungarian Kilépési munka
hy	Armenian Ելքի աշխատանք
id	Indonesian Fungsi kerja
it	Italian Lavoro di estrazione
ja	Japanese 仕事関数
kk	Kazakh Шығу жұмысы
ko	Korean 일함수
ms	Malay Fungsi kerja
nl	Dutch Uittreearbeid
pl	Polish Praca wyjścia
pt	Portuguese Função trabalho
ru	Russian Работа выхода
sh	Serbo-Croatian Izlazni rad materijala
sv	Swedish Utträdesarbete
ta	Tamil விடுப்பாற்றல்
uk	Ukrainian Робота виходу
ur	Urdu کام عمل
zh	Chinese 功函数

Best Rank

English: #43936 11.2014

Global: #31782 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #6850 05.2002

Global: #2028 08.2003

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