Side scan sonar

Quality:

Side-scan sonar - tool for seafloor mapping. Article “Side scan sonar” in Dutch Wikipedia has 2.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Side scan sonar”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 159 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 484 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #1517 in April 2005
• Global: #1159 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #7198 in July 2011
• Global: #177750 in April 2014

There are 10 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) Side-scan sonar		34.3264
2	Italian (it) Sonar a scansione laterale		31.5401
3	Estonian (et) Külgvaatesonar		27.5981
4	Vietnamese (vi) Sonar quét sườn		19.5448
5	Chinese (zh) 側掃聲納		17.8215
6	Russian (ru) Гидролокатор бокового обзора		16.4356
7	German (de) Seitensichtsonar		12.3755
8	Spanish (es) Sonar de barrido lateral		10.9898
9	Danish (da) Side-scan sonar		8.3051
10	Dutch (nl) Side scan sonar		2.7705

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Side-scan sonar		663 290
2	German (de) Seitensichtsonar		64 408
3	Dutch (nl) Side scan sonar		21 795
4	Spanish (es) Sonar de barrido lateral		20 097
5	Chinese (zh) 側掃聲納		18 123
6	Danish (da) Side-scan sonar		8 768
7	Russian (ru) Гидролокатор бокового обзора		7 263
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sonar quét sườn		5 660
9	Italian (it) Sonar a scansione laterale		3 328
10	Estonian (et) Külgvaatesonar		696

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) Side-scan sonar		2 001
2	German (de) Seitensichtsonar		156
3	Chinese (zh) 側掃聲納		156
4	Spanish (es) Sonar de barrido lateral		138
5	Russian (ru) Гидролокатор бокового обзора		109
6	Italian (it) Sonar a scansione laterale		82
7	Danish (da) Side-scan sonar		28
8	Dutch (nl) Side scan sonar		26
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sonar quét sườn		16
10	Estonian (et) Külgvaatesonar		9

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Side-scan sonar		83
2	German (de) Seitensichtsonar		32
3	Dutch (nl) Side scan sonar		10
4	Italian (it) Sonar a scansione laterale		8
5	Danish (da) Side-scan sonar		7
6	Russian (ru) Гидролокатор бокового обзора		5
7	Vietnamese (vi) Sonar quét sườn		5
8	Chinese (zh) 側掃聲納		5
9	Spanish (es) Sonar de barrido lateral		2
10	Estonian (et) Külgvaatesonar		2

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) Side-scan sonar		0
2	German (de) Seitensichtsonar		0
3	English (en) Side-scan sonar		0
4	Spanish (es) Sonar de barrido lateral		0
5	Estonian (et) Külgvaatesonar		0
6	Italian (it) Sonar a scansione laterale		0
7	Dutch (nl) Side scan sonar		0
8	Russian (ru) Гидролокатор бокового обзора		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sonar quét sườn		0
10	Chinese (zh) 側掃聲納		0

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

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