Birefringence

Quality:

Birefringence - optical phenomenon. Article "Birefringence" in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

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

Since the creation of article "Birefringence", its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 943 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9867 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #267 in March 2011
• Global: #5646 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5973 in October 2012
• Global: #30895 in April 2015

There are 38 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Birefringence		71.2626
2	Finnish (fi) Kahtaistaittuminen		44.7743
3	Bulgarian (bg) Двойно лъчепречупване		39.6266
4	Polish (pl) Dwójłomność		37.1141
5	French (fr) Biréfringence		36.89
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Dobbeltbryting		35.5402
7	Esperanto (eo) Duobla refrakto		34.0726
8	Croatian (hr) Dvolom		34.0477
9	German (de) Doppelbrechung		33.1578
10	Russian (ru) Двойное лучепреломление		29.0815

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Birefringence		3 980 288
2	German (de) Doppelbrechung		668 634
3	French (fr) Biréfringence		446 620
4	Spanish (es) Birrefringencia		437 019
5	Russian (ru) Двойное лучепреломление		412 926
6	Japanese (ja) 複屈折		397 937
7	Polish (pl) Dwójłomność		298 362
8	Chinese (zh) 双折射		206 796
9	Italian (it) Birifrangenza		152 694
10	Portuguese (pt) Birrefringência		84 431

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) Birefringence		11 807
2	German (de) Doppelbrechung		1 899
3	Japanese (ja) 複屈折		999
4	Chinese (zh) 双折射		980
5	French (fr) Biréfringence		913
6	Russian (ru) Двойное лучепреломление		907
7	Spanish (es) Birrefringencia		876
8	Italian (it) Birifrangenza		698
9	Polish (pl) Dwójłomność		371
10	Korean (ko) 복굴절		327

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Birefringence		234
2	German (de) Doppelbrechung		132
3	French (fr) Biréfringence		94
4	Russian (ru) Двойное лучепреломление		61
5	Polish (pl) Dwójłomność		47
6	Dutch (nl) Dubbele breking		44
7	Italian (it) Birifrangenza		32
8	Hebrew (he) שבירה כפולה		29
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lưỡng chiết		29
10	Spanish (es) Birrefringencia		28

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	Hebrew (he) שבירה כפולה		3
2	French (fr) Biréfringence		1
3	Hindi (hi) द्विअपवर्तन		1
4	Turkish (tr) Çift kırılma		1
5	Arabic (ar) انكسار مزدوج		0
6	Belarusian (be) Двайное праменепраламленне		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Двойно лъчепречупване		0
8	Catalan (ca) Birefringència		0
9	Danish (da) Dobbeltbrydning		0
10	German (de) Doppelbrechung		0

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

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