Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Quality:

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis - hypothesis on what initiated the Younger Dryas geological period. Article “Younger Dryas impact hypothesis” in English Wikipedia has 63.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 233 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 21.02 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Younger Dryas impact hypothesis” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Younger Dryas impact hypothesis”, its content was written by 299 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 442 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 57 times in English Wikipedia and cited 147 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #816 in November 2022
• Global: #6218 in November 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3267 in November 2022
• Global: #7771 in November 2022

There are 11 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) Younger Dryas impact hypothesis		63.0519
2	Hungarian (hu) Pleisztocén–holocén becsapódási esemény		52.7792
3	Chinese (zh) 新仙女木事件		51.1486
4	Arabic (ar) فرضية تصادم درياس الأصغر		31.6907
5	Italian (it) Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente		29.7516
6	Spanish (es) Hipótesis del cometa Clovis		18.9528
7	Galician (gl) Hipótese do impacto no Younger Dryas		18.4731
8	French (fr) Hypothèse de l'impact cosmique du Dryas récent		15.6135
9	Russian (ru) Ударная гипотеза позднего дриаса		13.6905
10	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese de impacto no Dryas recente		11.8202

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Younger Dryas impact hypothesis		2 159 471
2	Chinese (zh) 新仙女木事件		241 302
3	Spanish (es) Hipótesis del cometa Clovis		57 006
4	Hungarian (hu) Pleisztocén–holocén becsapódási esemény		51 246
5	Italian (it) Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente		51 058
6	French (fr) Hypothèse de l'impact cosmique du Dryas récent		49 494
7	Russian (ru) Ударная гипотеза позднего дриаса		11 015
8	Dutch (nl) Jonge Dryas-impacthypothese		10 013
9	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese de impacto no Dryas recente		3 778
10	Arabic (ar) فرضية تصادم درياس الأصغر		1 212

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) Younger Dryas impact hypothesis		15 999
2	Chinese (zh) 新仙女木事件		2 117
3	French (fr) Hypothèse de l'impact cosmique du Dryas récent		372
4	Italian (it) Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente		245
5	Russian (ru) Ударная гипотеза позднего дриаса		176
6	Hungarian (hu) Pleisztocén–holocén becsapódási esemény		173
7	Spanish (es) Hipótesis del cometa Clovis		157
8	Dutch (nl) Jonge Dryas-impacthypothese		91
9	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese de impacto no Dryas recente		30
10	Arabic (ar) فرضية تصادم درياس الأصغر		26

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Younger Dryas impact hypothesis		299
2	Hungarian (hu) Pleisztocén–holocén becsapódási esemény		36
3	Italian (it) Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente		36
4	Chinese (zh) 新仙女木事件		26
5	Spanish (es) Hipótesis del cometa Clovis		17
6	Russian (ru) Ударная гипотеза позднего дриаса		8
7	French (fr) Hypothèse de l'impact cosmique du Dryas récent		6
8	Dutch (nl) Jonge Dryas-impacthypothese		6
9	Galician (gl) Hipótese do impacto no Younger Dryas		3
10	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese de impacto no Dryas recente		3

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	English (en) Younger Dryas impact hypothesis		9
2	Arabic (ar) فرضية تصادم درياس الأصغر		0
3	Spanish (es) Hipótesis del cometa Clovis		0
4	French (fr) Hypothèse de l'impact cosmique du Dryas récent		0
5	Galician (gl) Hipótese do impacto no Younger Dryas		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Pleisztocén–holocén becsapódási esemény		0
7	Italian (it) Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente		0
8	Dutch (nl) Jonge Dryas-impacthypothese		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese de impacto no Dryas recente		0
10	Russian (ru) Ударная гипотеза позднего дриаса		0

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

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