Finite element method

Quality:

Finite element method - numerical method for solving physical or engineering problems. Article "Finite element method" in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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 "Finite element method", its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1670 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 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: #2351 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5284 in August 2010
• Global: #8039 in December 2014

There are 37 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) Finite element method		74.1712
2	Estonian (et) Lõplike elementide meetod		53.4637
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		51.4121
4	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		48.9488
5	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		44.1214
6	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		44.0671
7	Persian (fa) روش اجزاء محدود		42.0893
8	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		36.724
9	Turkish (tr) Sonlu elemanlar yöntemi		34.7307
10	Slovenian (sl) Metoda končnih elementov		34.1735

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Finite element method		8 707 179
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		2 492 813
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		1 306 104
4	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		1 278 387
5	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		1 085 395
6	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		735 494
7	Polish (pl) Metoda elementów skończonych		625 360
8	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		580 176
9	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		570 479
10	Portuguese (pt) Método dos elementos finitos		262 426

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		15 761
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		3 903
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		2 627
4	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		2 007
5	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		1 995
6	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		1 911
7	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		1 264
8	Polish (pl) Metoda elementów skończonych		813
9	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		713
10	Simple English (simple) Finite element method		533

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		448
2	German (de) Finite-Elemente-Methode		249
3	French (fr) Méthode des éléments finis		168
4	Italian (it) Metodo degli elementi finiti		92
5	Russian (ru) Метод конечных элементов		88
6	Spanish (es) Método de los elementos finitos		74
7	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		58
8	Japanese (ja) 有限要素法		54
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		2
2	English (en) Finite element method		2
3	Chinese (zh) 有限元素法		2
4	Finnish (fi) Elementtimenetelmä		1
5	Swedish (sv) Finita elementmetoden		1
6	Arabic (ar) طريقة محدودة العناصر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Sonlu elementlər üsulu		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на крайните елементи		0
9	Catalan (ca) Anàlisi d'elements finits		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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