Heat sink

Quality:

Heat sink - hardware component. Article “Heat sink” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Heat sink”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 946 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1056 in February 2009
• Global: #7070 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6811 in July 2009
• Global: #21572 in October 2013

There are 30 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) Heat sink		72.8486
2	Chinese (zh) 散热片		66.0994
3	Russian (ru) Кулер (система охлаждения)		36.8981
4	Ukrainian (uk) Кулер комп'ютера		32.8301
5	German (de) Kühlkörper		28.7332
6	Lithuanian (lt) Radiatorius (elektronika)		25.009
7	Polish (pl) Radiator		22.2378
8	Arabic (ar) مشتت حراري		19.3193
9	Turkish (tr) Soğutucu (Bilgisayar)		18.2383
10	Catalan (ca) Dissipador tèrmic		15.38

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heat sink		5 034 067
2	Spanish (es) Disipador		1 322 375
3	Japanese (ja) ヒートシンク		858 023
4	Russian (ru) Кулер (система охлаждения)		446 497
5	Polish (pl) Radiator		383 635
6	German (de) Kühlkörper		337 722
7	Italian (it) Dissipatore (elettronica)		259 725
8	French (fr) Dissipateur thermique		160 951
9	Chinese (zh) 散热片		126 138
10	Thai (th) ฮีตซิงก์		87 207

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) Heat sink		5 403
2	Japanese (ja) ヒートシンク		696
3	Russian (ru) Кулер (система охлаждения)		510
4	Chinese (zh) 散热片		477
5	German (de) Kühlkörper		355
6	Polish (pl) Radiator		263
7	Spanish (es) Disipador		260
8	French (fr) Dissipateur thermique		241
9	Italian (it) Dissipatore (elettronica)		174
10	Persian (fa) گرماگیر		149

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heat sink		326
2	German (de) Kühlkörper		91
3	Russian (ru) Кулер (система охлаждения)		69
4	Spanish (es) Disipador		62
5	Italian (it) Dissipatore (elettronica)		59
6	Polish (pl) Radiator		39
7	Japanese (ja) ヒートシンク		34
8	Dutch (nl) Koelplaat		34
9	Hebrew (he) צלעות קירור		32
10	French (fr) Dissipateur thermique		27

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	Arabic (ar) مشتت حراري		1
2	Catalan (ca) Dissipador tèrmic		1
3	French (fr) Dissipateur thermique		1
4	Czech (cs) Chladič		0
5	Danish (da) Køleplade		0
6	German (de) Kühlkörper		0
7	English (en) Heat sink		0
8	Spanish (es) Disipador		0
9	Persian (fa) گرماگیر		0
10	Finnish (fi) Jäähdytyselementti		0

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

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