Cosmic ray

Quality:

Cosmic radiation - high-speed, i.e. high-energy particle, mainly originating in outer space, outside the Solar system. Article “Cosmic ray” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Cosmic ray”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2230 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12579 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1520 in September 2010
• Global: #1001 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7563 in August 2013
• Global: #10418 in March 2020

There are 52 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) Cosmic ray		91.6778
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		67.6042
3	Basque (eu) Erradiazio kosmiko		63.5501
4	Ukrainian (uk) Космічні промені		58.4943
5	Croatian (hr) Kozmičke zrake		56.5712
6	Catalan (ca) Raigs còsmics		50.4489
7	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		45.7522
8	Finnish (fi) Kosminen säteily		45.0015
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kozmičke zrake		41.6967
10	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		40.0844

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cosmic ray		6 097 580
2	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		1 363 789
3	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		1 064 952
4	Japanese (ja) 宇宙線		909 536
5	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		671 887
6	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		657 164
7	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		479 105
8	Polish (pl) Promieniowanie kosmiczne		424 699
9	Portuguese (pt) Raio cósmico		306 930
10	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		276 737

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) Cosmic ray		12 396
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		2 132
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙線		1 435
4	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		1 350
5	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		1 114
6	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		1 021
7	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		749
8	Polish (pl) Promieniowanie kosmiczne		680
9	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		642
10	Portuguese (pt) Raio cósmico		268

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cosmic ray		580
2	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		250
3	French (fr) Rayonnement cosmique		154
4	Italian (it) Raggi cosmici		131
5	Russian (ru) Космические лучи		89
6	Dutch (nl) Kosmische straling		81
7	Spanish (es) Radiación cósmica		73
8	Hebrew (he) קרן קוסמית		57
9	Japanese (ja) 宇宙線		46
10	Danish (da) Kosmisk stråling		43

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	English (en) Cosmic ray		2
2	Indonesian (id) Sinar kosmik		2
3	Uzbek (uz) Kosmik nurlar		2
4	German (de) Kosmische Strahlung		1
5	Basque (eu) Erradiazio kosmiko		1
6	Malay (ms) Sinar kosmos		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Космічні промені		1
8	Chinese (zh) 宇宙線		1
9	Arabic (ar) أشعة كونية		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Kosmik şüalar		0

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

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