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Information retrieval

Quality:

Information retrieval - activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Article “Information retrieval” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.42 points.

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 “Information retrieval”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3753 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #4099 in June 2017
  • Global: #3211 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #9786 in August 2024
  • Global: #9596 in March 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Information retrieval
54.2721
2French (fr)
Recherche d'information
45.385
3Catalan (ca)
Recuperació d'informació
38.1443
4German (de)
Information Retrieval
37.301
5Finnish (fi)
Tiedonhaku
35.7749
6Hindi (hi)
सूचना पुनर्प्राप्ति
34.5483
7Turkish (tr)
Bilgi erişim
34.3582
8Basque (eu)
Informazioaren berreskurapen
30.4436
9Ukrainian (uk)
Інформаційний пошук
26.8555
10Portuguese (pt)
Recuperação de informação
26.7493
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Information retrieval" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information retrieval
4 161 812
2Russian (ru)
Информационный поиск
635 185
3Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y recuperación de información
548 823
4German (de)
Information Retrieval
517 758
5French (fr)
Recherche d'information
460 402
6Japanese (ja)
情報検索
267 987
7Italian (it)
Information retrieval
191 294
8Arabic (ar)
استرجاع المعلومات
148 855
9Chinese (zh)
信息檢索
138 702
10Persian (fa)
بازیابی اطلاعات
119 762
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Information retrieval" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information retrieval
4 483
2German (de)
Information Retrieval
610
3Russian (ru)
Информационный поиск
425
4French (fr)
Recherche d'information
333
5Chinese (zh)
信息檢索
314
6Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y recuperación de información
223
7Persian (fa)
بازیابی اطلاعات
172
8Italian (it)
Information retrieval
135
9Japanese (ja)
情報検索
111
10Polish (pl)
Wyszukiwanie informacji
85
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Information retrieval" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Information retrieval
365
2German (de)
Information Retrieval
156
3French (fr)
Recherche d'information
121
4Russian (ru)
Информационный поиск
71
5Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y recuperación de información
68
6Italian (it)
Information retrieval
66
7Turkish (tr)
Bilgi erişim
54
8Japanese (ja)
情報検索
47
9Persian (fa)
بازیابی اطلاعات
43
10Arabic (ar)
استرجاع المعلومات
39
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Information retrieval" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
استرجاع المعلومات
1
2German (de)
Information Retrieval
1
3English (en)
Information retrieval
1
4Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y recuperación de información
1
5French (fr)
Recherche d'information
1
6Turkish (tr)
Bilgi erişim
1
7Azerbaijani (az)
İnformasiya axtarışı
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Извличане на информация
0
9Catalan (ca)
Recuperació d'informació
0
10Czech (cs)
Získávání informací
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Information retrieval" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Information retrieval
743
2Persian (fa)
بازیابی اطلاعات
349
3French (fr)
Recherche d'information
270
4Vietnamese (vi)
Truy hồi thông tin
237
5Arabic (ar)
استرجاع المعلومات
235
6Ukrainian (uk)
Інформаційний пошук
233
7Chinese (zh)
信息檢索
200
8Korean (ko)
정보 검색
189
9Japanese (ja)
情報検索
182
10German (de)
Information Retrieval
168
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
استرجاع المعلومات
azAzerbaijani
İnformasiya axtarışı
bgBulgarian
Извличане на информация
caCatalan
Recuperació d'informació
csCzech
Získávání informací
daDanish
Informationssøgning
deGerman
Information Retrieval
elGreek
Ανάκτηση πληροφοριών
enEnglish
Information retrieval
eoEsperanto
Informo-rehavigo
esSpanish
Búsqueda y recuperación de información
etEstonian
Infootsing
euBasque
Informazioaren berreskurapen
faPersian
بازیابی اطلاعات
fiFinnish
Tiedonhaku
frFrench
Recherche d'information
glGalician
Recuperación de información
hiHindi
सूचना पुनर्प्राप्ति
idIndonesian
Temu balik informasi
itItalian
Information retrieval
jaJapanese
情報検索
koKorean
정보 검색
msMalay
Dapatan kembali maklumat
nlDutch
Information retrieval
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Informasjonsattfinning
noNorwegian
Informasjonsgjenfinning
plPolish
Wyszukiwanie informacji
ptPortuguese
Recuperação de informação
ruRussian
Информационный поиск
simpleSimple English
Information retrieval
srSerbian
Pretraživanje informacija
svSwedish
Informationssökning
taTamil
தெரிசெய்தி மீட்பு
trTurkish
Bilgi erişim
ukUkrainian
Інформаційний пошук
viVietnamese
Truy hồi thông tin
zhChinese
信息檢索

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#9786
08.2024
Global:
#9596
03.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4099
06.2017
Global:
#3211
11.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Information retrieval from Wikipedia articles about Retrieval-augmented generation, Thomas Dolby, Natural language processing, Tf–idf and Okapi BM25. Whereas reading the article about Information retrieval people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Information need, Information science, Information system, Search engine and Cross-modal retrieval.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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