Impact event

Quality:

Impact event - collision of two astronomical objects with measurable effects. Article “Impact event” in Simple English Wikipedia has 47 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 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 “Impact event”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1465 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1885 in August 2018
• Global: #1507 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2508 in January 2017
• Global: #4911 in February 2013

There are 33 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) Impact event		92.7384
2	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		90.7573
3	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		76.1532
4	Danish (da) Meteoritnedslag		58.4943
5	Finnish (fi) Impakti		54.1344
6	French (fr) Impact cosmique		47.711
7	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		47.4161
8	Simple English (simple) Impact event		46.9834
9	German (de) Impakt		46.1667
10	Czech (cs) Impakt astronomického tělesa		43.3722

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Impact event		5 923 211
2	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		1 027 836
3	German (de) Impakt		822 286
4	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		398 800
5	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		320 834
6	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		304 961
7	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		243 795
8	French (fr) Impact cosmique		216 365
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa kosmiczna		181 213
10	Finnish (fi) Impakti		119 491

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) Impact event		19 098
2	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		2 592
3	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		2 008
4	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		1 701
5	German (de) Impakt		1 433
6	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		592
7	French (fr) Impact cosmique		570
8	Simple English (simple) Impact event		512
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa kosmiczna		304
10	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		302

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Impact event		618
2	German (de) Impakt		185
3	French (fr) Impact cosmique		88
4	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		79
5	Finnish (fi) Impakti		72
6	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		49
7	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		35
8	Dutch (nl) Inslagproces		34
9	Spanish (es) Impacto astronómico		30
10	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		28

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	English (en) Impact event		2
2	Finnish (fi) Impakti		2
3	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		1
4	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		1
5	Arabic (ar) اصطدام (علم الفلك)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Toqquşma hadisəsi		0
7	Belarusian (be) Імпактная падзея		0
8	Catalan (ca) Impacte astronòmic		0
9	Czech (cs) Impakt astronomického tělesa		0
10	Danish (da) Meteoritnedslag		0

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

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