Higgs field

Quality:

Higgs mechanism - mechanism in quantum field theory in which spontaneous symmetry breaking causes gauge bosons to acquire mass. Article “Higgs field” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Higgs field”, its content was written by 51 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2538^th place) and edited by 945 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1663 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in July 2012
• Global: #837 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5 in July 2012
• Global: #1921 in July 2012

There are 27 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	Chinese (zh) 希格斯机制		76.0439
2	English (en) Higgs mechanism		73.4056
3	German (de) Higgs-Mechanismus		51.1276
4	Serbian (sr) Хигсов механизам		42.5849
5	Italian (it) Meccanismo di Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		27.6416
6	Portuguese (pt) Mecanismo de Higgs		27.1431
7	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Higgs		27.0368
8	Slovak (sk) Broutov-Englertov-Higgsov mechanizmus		26.7714
9	Simple English (simple) Higgs field		26.5555
10	Indonesian (id) Mekanisme Brout-Englert-Higgs		23.0608

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Higgs mechanism		2 402 709
2	German (de) Higgs-Mechanismus		632 404
3	Simple English (simple) Higgs field		619 819
4	Russian (ru) Механизм Хиггса		392 134
5	Japanese (ja) ヒッグス機構		238 338
6	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Higgs		224 003
7	Polish (pl) Pole Higgsa		218 626
8	Italian (it) Meccanismo di Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		148 820
9	Chinese (zh) 希格斯机制		127 846
10	French (fr) Mécanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		127 163

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) Higgs mechanism		9 050
2	Simple English (simple) Higgs field		5 854
3	German (de) Higgs-Mechanismus		1 590
4	Russian (ru) Механизм Хиггса		1 112
5	Japanese (ja) ヒッグス機構		1 048
6	Chinese (zh) 希格斯机制		511
7	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Higgs		357
8	Polish (pl) Pole Higgsa		320
9	French (fr) Mécanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		312
10	Italian (it) Meccanismo di Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		284

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Higgs mechanism		243
2	German (de) Higgs-Mechanismus		127
3	Russian (ru) Механизм Хиггса		68
4	Italian (it) Meccanismo di Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		64
5	Simple English (simple) Higgs field		51
6	Dutch (nl) Brout-Englert-Higgsveld		48
7	French (fr) Mécanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		46
8	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Higgs		39
9	Polish (pl) Pole Higgsa		35
10	Japanese (ja) ヒッグス機構		29

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) آلية هيغز		1
2	Catalan (ca) Mecanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs		1
3	German (de) Higgs-Mechanismus		1
4	English (en) Higgs mechanism		1
5	Belarusian (be) Механізм Хігса		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Механизъм на Хигс		0
7	Greek (el) Μηχανισμός Χιγκς		0
8	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Higgs		0
9	Persian (fa) سازوکار هیگز		0
10	French (fr) Mécanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble		0

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

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