Finite element method

Quality:

Finite element method - numerical method for solving physical or engineering problems. Article “Finite element method” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.47 points.

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 “Finite element method”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1671 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3780 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #359 in May 2008
• Global: #2347 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5306 in August 2010
• Global: #8562 in December 2014

There are 35 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) Finite element method		74.0506
2	Estonian (et) Lõplike elementide meetod		51.8769
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		51.4289
4	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		48.0139
5	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		45.4361
6	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		43.6388
7	Persian (fa) روش اجزاء محدود		41.8534
8	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		36.8913
9	Turkish (tr) Sonlu elemanlar yöntemi		34.7749
10	Slovenian (sl) Metoda končnih elementov		34.0075

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Finite element method		8 894 101
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		2 537 689
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		1 337 743
4	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		1 298 214
5	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		1 098 598
6	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		808 063
7	Polish (pl) Metoda elementów skończonych		635 450
8	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		606 829
9	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		578 880
10	Portuguese (pt) Método dos elementos finitos		265 644

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) Finite element method		11 662
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		2 757
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		2 009
4	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		1 804
5	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		1 343
6	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		1 075
7	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		663
8	Polish (pl) Metoda elementów skończonych		578
9	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		448
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phương pháp phần tử hữu hạn		330

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Finite element method		456
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		255
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		171
4	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		96
5	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		90
6	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		74
7	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		59
8	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		55
9	Dutch (nl) Eindige-elementenmethode		51
10	Persian (fa) روش اجزاء محدود		37

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	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		3
2	English (en) Finite element method		3
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		2
4	Arabic (ar) طريقة محدودة العناصر		1
5	Romanian (ro) Metoda elementelor finite		1
6	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Phương pháp phần tử hữu hạn		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Sonlu elementlər üsulu		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на крайните елементи		0
10	Czech (cs) Metoda konečných prvků		0

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

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