Chemical element

Quality:

Chemical element - species of atoms having the same number of protons in the atomic nucleus and the same chemical properties, but not necessarily the same mass, or the same stability (or half-lifetime if they are unstable). Article “Chemical element” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1790^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2212^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1462^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2729^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7748^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2029^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Chemical element” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2029^th place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Chemical element”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2212^th place) and edited by 4645 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2729^th place).

The article is cited 389 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7165^th place) and cited 31766 times in all languages (5346^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #33 in April 2004
• Global: #174 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #459 in September 2008
• Global: #502 in September 2010

There are 55 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, 2026 (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) Chemical element		93.8164
2	French (fr) Élément chimique		81.8809
3	Chinese (zh) 化學元素		78.2972
4	Japanese (ja) 元素		70.5944
5	Indonesian (id) Unsur kimia		69.73
6	Slovenian (sl) Kemični element		63.9191
7	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		59.4852
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên tố hóa học		57.9603
9	Catalan (ca) Element químic		57.8479
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hemijski element		56.3292

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		21 979 659
2	English (en) Chemical element		16 029 258
3	German (de) Chemisches Element		3 964 215
4	Portuguese (pt) Elemento (química)		2 834 175
5	Turkish (tr) Element		2 487 613
6	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		2 480 635
7	Polish (pl) Pierwiastek chemiczny		2 403 460
8	Japanese (ja) 元素		2 333 086
9	French (fr) Élément chimique		2 185 398
10	Indonesian (id) Unsur kimia		2 047 442

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) Chemical element		23 516
2	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		10 974
3	Japanese (ja) 元素		6 278
4	German (de) Chemisches Element		5 244
5	Chinese (zh) 化學元素		3 549
6	French (fr) Élément chimique		2 959
7	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		2 224
8	Polish (pl) Pierwiastek chemiczny		1 851
9	Persian (fa) عنصر شیمیایی		1 511
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên tố hóa học		1 424

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chemical element		882
2	German (de) Chemisches Element		331
3	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		299
4	French (fr) Élément chimique		213
5	Japanese (ja) 元素		150
6	Russian (ru) Химический элемент		143
7	Italian (it) Elemento chimico		140
8	Hebrew (he) יסוד כימי		130
9	Turkish (tr) Element		126
10	Dutch (nl) Chemisch element		120

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	Spanish (es) Elemento químico		2
2	Japanese (ja) 元素		2
3	Basque (eu) Elementu kimiko		1
4	Galician (gl) Elemento químico		1
5	Indonesian (id) Unsur kimia		1
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hemijski element		1
7	Simple English (simple) Chemical element		1
8	Arabic (ar) عنصر كيميائي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kimyəvi element		0
10	Belarusian (be) Хімічны элемент		0

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

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