J. J. Thomson

Quality:

J. J. Thomson - British physicist (1856-1940). This person is the 3917^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 719^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “J. J. Thomson” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5590^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6351^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 719^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6469^th most popular in AI.

The 3917^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6976^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6184^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “J. J. Thomson” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6184^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “J. J. Thomson”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6351^st place) and edited by 3135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6469^th place).

J. J. Thomson is on the 719^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3917^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 204 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15070 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #47 in December 2015
• Global: #948 in October 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1588 in September 2010
• Global: #4408 in September 2011

There are 54 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) J. J. Thomson		83.7125
2	Catalan (ca) Joseph John Thomson		58.9458
3	Tamil (ta) ஜெ. ஜெ. தாம்சன்		49.7935
4	Chinese (zh) J·J·湯姆森		47.9693
5	Hindi (hi) जे॰ जे॰ थॉमसन		47.4882
6	Spanish (es) Joseph John Thomson		44.985
7	Georgian (ka) ჯოზეფ ჯონ თომსონი		41.0825
8	Slovenian (sl) Joseph John Thomson		35.5083
9	Latin (la) Iosephus Ioannes Thomson		35.4454
10	Greek (el) Τζόζεφ Τζον Τόμσον		35.2353

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) J. J. Thomson		8 334 387
2	Spanish (es) Joseph John Thomson		6 257 674
3	Portuguese (pt) Joseph John Thomson		1 041 644
4	French (fr) Joseph John Thomson		804 601
5	Turkish (tr) J. J. Thomson		533 225
6	Russian (ru) Томсон, Джозеф Джон		452 486
7	German (de) Joseph John Thomson		382 380
8	Arabic (ar) جوزيف جون طومسون		304 984
9	Italian (it) Joseph John Thomson		291 343
10	Chinese (zh) J·J·湯姆森		262 094

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) J. J. Thomson		17 470
2	Spanish (es) Joseph John Thomson		6 951
3	Portuguese (pt) Joseph John Thomson		1 559
4	Japanese (ja) ジョゼフ・ジョン・トムソン		1 012
5	Chinese (zh) J·J·湯姆森		1 012
6	Russian (ru) Томсон, Джозеф Джон		936
7	Thai (th) เจ. เจ. ทอมสัน		934
8	German (de) Joseph John Thomson		909
9	Simple English (simple) J. J. Thomson		908
10	French (fr) Joseph John Thomson		680

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) J. J. Thomson		1 028
2	Spanish (es) Joseph John Thomson		191
3	French (fr) Joseph John Thomson		186
4	German (de) Joseph John Thomson		150
5	Italian (it) Joseph John Thomson		127
6	Russian (ru) Томсон, Джозеф Джон		85
7	Hebrew (he) ג'וזף ג'ון תומסון		81
8	Turkish (tr) J. J. Thomson		71
9	Dutch (nl) Joseph John Thomson		70
10	Portuguese (pt) Joseph John Thomson		68

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) J. J. Thomson		2
2	Persian (fa) جوزف جان تامسون		1
3	Georgian (ka) ჯოზეფ ჯონ თომსონი		1
4	Russian (ru) Томсон, Джозеф Джон		1
5	Simple English (simple) J. J. Thomson		1
6	Serbian (sr) Џозеф Џон Томсон		1
7	Turkish (tr) J. J. Thomson		1
8	Arabic (ar) جوزيف جون طومسون		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Cozef Con Tomson		0
10	Belarusian (be) Джозеф Джон Томсан		0

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

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