Identity element

Quality:

Identity element - special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set, which leaves other elements unchanged when combined with them. Article “Identity element” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 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 “Identity element”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 862 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3813 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3442 in August 2020
• Global: #363 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8023 in April 2008
• Global: #52102 in October 2020

There are 41 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) Identity element		31.2767
2	Finnish (fi) Neutraalialkio		30.5828
3	Greek (el) Ουδέτερο στοιχείο		30.2923
4	Polish (pl) Element neutralny		29.9353
5	Indonesian (id) Unsur identitas		28.6317
6	Tamil (ta) முற்றொருமை உறுப்பு		26.1428
7	French (fr) Élément neutre		23.2058
8	Catalan (ca) Element neutre		22.9863
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phần tử đơn vị		21.3238
10	Simple English (simple) Identity element		17.4811

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Elemento neutro		1 131 235
2	English (en) Identity element		1 120 943
3	German (de) Neutrales Element		272 084
4	Portuguese (pt) Elemento neutro		209 580
5	Japanese (ja) 単位元		191 170
6	Arabic (ar) عنصر محايد		145 280
7	French (fr) Élément neutre		138 687
8	Russian (ru) Нейтральный элемент		129 611
9	Polish (pl) Element neutralny		106 898
10	Chinese (zh) 單位元		91 709

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) Identity element		2 289
2	Japanese (ja) 単位元		450
3	Chinese (zh) 單位元		297
4	German (de) Neutrales Element		265
5	Russian (ru) Нейтральный элемент		226
6	French (fr) Élément neutre		192
7	Portuguese (pt) Elemento neutro		114
8	Spanish (es) Elemento neutro		112
9	Polish (pl) Element neutralny		101
10	Italian (it) Elemento neutro		76

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Identity element		142
2	German (de) Neutrales Element		64
3	French (fr) Élément neutre		57
4	Russian (ru) Нейтральный элемент		47
5	Spanish (es) Elemento neutro		42
6	Italian (it) Elemento neutro		42
7	Dutch (nl) Neutraal element		38
8	Japanese (ja) 単位元		31
9	Hungarian (hu) Neutrális elem		29
10	Chinese (zh) 單位元		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) عنصر محايد		1
2	German (de) Neutrales Element		1
3	Thai (th) สมาชิกเอกลักษณ์		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Неутрален елемент		0
5	Catalan (ca) Element neutre		0
6	Czech (cs) Neutrální prvek		0
7	Danish (da) Neutralt element		0
8	Greek (el) Ουδέτερο στοιχείο		0
9	English (en) Identity element		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Neŭtrala elemento (matematiko)		0

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

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