Band gap

Quality:

Band gap - energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist. Article “Band gap” in Simple English Wikipedia has 57.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Band gap” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (7030^th place) and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Band gap”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 585 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2714 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1600 in December 2011
• Global: #2528 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2233 in October 2018
• Global: #26052 in October 2014

There are 28 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) Band gap		62.6161
2	Simple English (simple) Band gap		57.3096
3	Greek (el) Ενεργειακό χάσμα		53.5555
4	Hungarian (hu) Tiltott sáv		41.265
5	German (de) Bandlücke		41.2046
6	French (fr) Bande interdite		39.629
7	Catalan (ca) Banda prohibida		38.9428
8	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		35.4984
9	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		34.4078
10	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		30.537

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Band gap		4 160 581
2	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		1 320 839
3	German (de) Bandlücke		615 060
4	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		600 721
5	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		399 812
6	Chinese (zh) 能隙		324 879
7	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		218 790
8	Italian (it) Banda proibita		154 301
9	Korean (ko) 띠틈		135 136
10	Portuguese (pt) Banda proibida		121 534

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) Band gap		8 761
2	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		1 822
3	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		1 278
4	German (de) Bandlücke		1 069
5	Simple English (simple) Band gap		861
6	Chinese (zh) 能隙		815
7	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		506
8	French (fr) Bande interdite		501
9	Korean (ko) 띠틈		391
10	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		321

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Band gap		166
2	German (de) Bandlücke		85
3	Russian (ru) Запрещённая зона		37
4	Italian (it) Banda proibita		36
5	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		25
6	Dutch (nl) Verboden zone		25
7	Japanese (ja) バンドギャップ		22
8	Polish (pl) Przerwa energetyczna		21
9	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		19
10	Chinese (zh) 能隙		18

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	Greek (el) Ενεργειακό χάσμα		2
2	Simple English (simple) Band gap		1
3	Arabic (ar) فجوة النطاق		0
4	Catalan (ca) Banda prohibida		0
5	German (de) Bandlücke		0
6	English (en) Band gap		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Bendbreĉo		0
8	Spanish (es) Banda prohibida		0
9	Estonian (et) Keelutsoon (füüsika)		0
10	Persian (fa) نوار ممنوعه		0

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

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