Internal combustion engine

Quality:

Internal combustion engine - engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber. Article “Internal combustion engine” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.04 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5201^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3592^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4126^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Internal combustion engine”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3919 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4126^th place).

The article is cited 359 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7773^rd place) and cited 30420 times in all languages (5585^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #177 in November 2021
• Global: #264 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1128 in June 2009
• Global: #1619 in April 2008

There are 53 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	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ đốt trong		89.5692
2	German (de) Verbrennungsmotor		82.5811
3	Esperanto (eo) Eksplodmotoro		79.9582
4	Russian (ru) Двигатель внутреннего сгорания		72.8561
5	English (en) Internal combustion engine		70.322
6	Arabic (ar) محرك احتراق داخلي		67.7449
7	Ukrainian (uk) Двигун внутрішнього згоряння		66.4748
8	Chinese (zh) 内燃机		60.0795
9	Catalan (ca) Motor de combustió interna		59.1915
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Stempelmotorar med innvendig forbrenning		59.0527

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Internal combustion engine		17 586 383
2	Spanish (es) Motor de combustión interna		7 330 755
3	Russian (ru) Двигатель внутреннего сгорания		4 870 143
4	German (de) Verbrennungsmotor		2 844 407
5	Italian (it) Motore a combustione interna		1 774 954
6	Portuguese (pt) Motor de combustão interna		1 569 468
7	Japanese (ja) 内燃機関		1 506 594
8	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ đốt trong		1 125 789
9	Arabic (ar) محرك احتراق داخلي		871 451
10	Indonesian (id) Mesin pembakaran dalam		858 930

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) Internal combustion engine		20 690
2	Russian (ru) Двигатель внутреннего сгорания		7 140
3	German (de) Verbrennungsmotor		3 372
4	Japanese (ja) 内燃機関		3 232
5	Italian (it) Motore a combustione interna		2 987
6	Spanish (es) Motor de combustión interna		2 441
7	Chinese (zh) 内燃机		1 099
8	Persian (fa) موتور درون‌سوز		1 002
9	Bulgarian (bg) Двигател с вътрешно горене		820
10	French (fr) Moteur à combustion interne		752

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Internal combustion engine		1 153
2	German (de) Verbrennungsmotor		451
3	Russian (ru) Двигатель внутреннего сгорания		193
4	Spanish (es) Motor de combustión interna		180
5	Italian (it) Motore a combustione interna		152
6	Dutch (nl) Verbrandingsmotor		147
7	Portuguese (pt) Motor de combustão interna		102
8	French (fr) Moteur à combustion interne		85
9	Hebrew (he) מנוע בעירה פנימית		84
10	Japanese (ja) 内燃機関		76

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) Internal combustion engine		2
2	Spanish (es) Motor de combustión interna		2
3	Croatian (hr) Motor s unutarnjim izgaranjem		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Motor de combustão interna		2
5	Arabic (ar) محرك احتراق داخلي		1
6	Catalan (ca) Motor de combustió interna		1
7	Basque (eu) Barne-errekuntzako motor		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Vidaus degimo variklis		1
9	Russian (ru) Двигатель внутреннего сгорания		1
10	Turkish (tr) İçten yanmalı motor		1

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

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