Messier 46

Messier 46 - open cluster. Article “Messier 46” in Finnish Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Messier 46”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 116 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 6217 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #2862 in February 2011
• Global: #4606 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #85315 in January 2008
• Global: #431015 in March 2010

There are 39 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) Messier 46		36.0878
2	Chinese (zh) M46 (疏散星團)		35.3289
3	Portuguese (pt) Messier 46		34.6502
4	German (de) Messier 46		34.2476
5	Swedish (sv) Messier 46		34.1021
6	Turkish (tr) Messier 46		32.9828
7	Czech (cs) Messier 46		32.6137
8	French (fr) M46 (amas ouvert)		30.8773
9	Catalan (ca) Messier 46		27.9327
10	Japanese (ja) M46 (天体)		27.412

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 46" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 46		107 575
2	Russian (ru) M 46 (звёздное скопление)		23 960
3	Polish (pl) Messier 46		21 647
4	German (de) Messier 46		20 246
5	Spanish (es) Cúmulo abierto M46		18 769
6	French (fr) M46 (amas ouvert)		17 151
7	Italian (it) M46 (astronomia)		14 516
8	Korean (ko) 메시에 46		13 343
9	Japanese (ja) M46 (天体)		12 694
10	Chinese (zh) M46 (疏散星團)		9 587

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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 "Messier 46" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 46		463
2	Chinese (zh) M46 (疏散星團)		75
3	Italian (it) M46 (astronomia)		73
4	Finnish (fi) Messier 46		55
5	Korean (ko) 메시에 46		53
6	Japanese (ja) M46 (天体)		48
7	Russian (ru) M 46 (звёздное скопление)		45
8	German (de) Messier 46		35
9	French (fr) M46 (amas ouvert)		31
10	Hungarian (hu) Messier 46		30

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

Language versions of the article "Messier 46" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 46		65
2	German (de) Messier 46		49
3	Italian (it) M46 (astronomia)		49
4	French (fr) M46 (amas ouvert)		45
5	Dutch (nl) Messier 46		39
6	Russian (ru) M 46 (звёздное скопление)		38
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 46		34
8	Hungarian (hu) Messier 46		24
9	Japanese (ja) M46 (天体)		23
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Messier 46		18

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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 "Messier 46" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) M46		1
2	Hungarian (hu) Messier 46		1
3	Arabic (ar) مسييه 46		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 2437		0
5	Belarusian (be) M46 (аб’ект Месье)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) M46		0
7	Catalan (ca) Messier 46		0
8	Czech (cs) Messier 46		0
9	German (de) Messier 46		0
10	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 46		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 "Messier 46" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) M46 (amas ouvert)		663
2	English (en) Messier 46		443
3	Basque (eu) Messier 46		336
4	Romanian (ro) Messier 46		325
5	Dutch (nl) Messier 46		320
6	Arabic (ar) مسييه 46		298
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Messier 46		181
8	Chinese (zh) M46 (疏散星團)		179
9	Turkish (tr) Messier 46		173
10	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 46		167

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 46
az	Azerbaijani NGC 2437
be	Belarusian M46 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M46
ca	Catalan Messier 46
cs	Czech Messier 46
de	German Messier 46
el	Greek Μεσιέ 46
en	English Messier 46
eo	Esperanto M46
es	Spanish Cúmulo abierto M46
et	Estonian Messier 46
eu	Basque Messier 46
fa	Persian مسیه ۴۶
fi	Finnish Messier 46
fr	French M46 (amas ouvert)
he	Hebrew M46
hr	Croatian Messier 46
hu	Hungarian Messier 46
id	Indonesian Messier 46
it	Italian M46 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M46 (天体)
ko	Korean 메시에 46
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 46
nl	Dutch Messier 46
no	Norwegian Messier 46
pl	Polish Messier 46
pt	Portuguese Messier 46
ro	Romanian Messier 46
ru	Russian M 46 (звёздное скопление)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 46
sk	Slovak Messier 46
sr	Serbian Месје 46
sv	Swedish Messier 46
tr	Turkish Messier 46
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 46
vi	Vietnamese Messier 46
zh	Chinese M46 (疏散星團)
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 46

Best Rank

Finnish: #85315 01.2008

Global: #431015 03.2010

Best Rank

Finnish: #2862 02.2011

Global: #4606 07.2011

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