SOSUS

Sound Surveillance System - chain of underwater listening posts. Article “SOSUS” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “SOSUS”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #38 in November 2017
• Global: #14897 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #4455 in October 2019
• Global: #14658 in June 2023

There are 20 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) SOSUS		96.9387
2	Estonian (et) SOSUS		55.9622
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) SOSUS		30.5329
4	Swedish (sv) SOSUS		20.4479
5	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		20.1775
6	Vietnamese (vi) SOSUS		19.8843
7	Indonesian (id) SOSUS		19.4875
8	Russian (ru) СОСУС		19.265
9	Chinese (zh) SOSUS		18.3139
10	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		18.2297

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SOSUS		1 381 147
2	German (de) Sound Surveillance System		261 260
3	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		254 328
4	Russian (ru) СОСУС		162 895
5	Spanish (es) SOSUS		72 622
6	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		57 715
7	Polish (pl) Sound Surveillance System		40 705
8	Italian (it) SOSUS		21 905
9	Swedish (sv) SOSUS		12 562
10	Chinese (zh) SOSUS		8 807

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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 "SOSUS" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SOSUS		10 483
2	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		967
3	German (de) Sound Surveillance System		857
4	Russian (ru) СОСУС		771
5	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		488
6	Spanish (es) SOSUS		341
7	Chinese (zh) SOSUS		235
8	Italian (it) SOSUS		220
9	Polish (pl) Sound Surveillance System		118
10	Indonesian (id) SOSUS		76

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SOSUS		152
2	German (de) Sound Surveillance System		51
3	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		31
4	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		22
5	Russian (ru) СОСУС		20
6	Italian (it) SOSUS		14
7	Spanish (es) SOSUS		9
8	Swedish (sv) SOSUS		9
9	Danish (da) SOSUS		8
10	Polish (pl) Sound Surveillance System		8

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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 "SOSUS" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Estonian (et) SOSUS		1
2	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		1
3	Danish (da) SOSUS		0
4	German (de) Sound Surveillance System		0
5	English (en) SOSUS		0
6	Spanish (es) SOSUS		0
7	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		0
8	Indonesian (id) SOSUS		0
9	Italian (it) SOSUS		0
10	Korean (ko) SOSUS		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 "SOSUS" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Polish (pl) Sound Surveillance System		198
2	English (en) SOSUS		157
3	French (fr) Sound Surveillance System		121
4	Japanese (ja) SOSUS		53
5	German (de) Sound Surveillance System		39
6	Russian (ru) СОСУС		30
7	Spanish (es) SOSUS		16
8	Italian (it) SOSUS		15
9	Chinese (zh) SOSUS		10
10	Vietnamese (vi) SOSUS		7

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish SOSUS
de	German Sound Surveillance System
en	English SOSUS
es	Spanish SOSUS
et	Estonian SOSUS
fr	French Sound Surveillance System
id	Indonesian SOSUS
it	Italian SOSUS
ja	Japanese SOSUS
ko	Korean SOSUS
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) SOSUS
no	Norwegian SOSUS
pl	Polish Sound Surveillance System
ru	Russian СОСУС
sl	Slovenian SOSUS
sv	Swedish SOSUS
tr	Turkish SOSUS
uk	Ukrainian SOSUS
vi	Vietnamese SOSUS
zh	Chinese SOSUS

Best Rank

Norwegian (Nynorsk): #4455 10.2019

Global: #14658 06.2023

Best Rank

Norwegian (Nynorsk): #38 11.2017

Global: #14897 01.2004

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