Kinetic theory of gases

Quality:

Kinetic theory - mathematical model explaining macroscopic properties of gases in microscopic terms. Article “Kinetic theory of gases” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.41 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 “Kinetic theory of gases”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9793^rd place) and edited by 1535 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2196 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #102 in September 2018
• Global: #3699 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #981 in January 2020
• Global: #15946 in April 2016

There are 43 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) Kinetic theory of gases		73.7736
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kinetisk teori		55.6265
3	Chinese (zh) 分子运动论		36.2604
4	Croatian (hr) Kinetička teorija plinova		33.0793
5	Spanish (es) Teoría cinética de los gases		32.6827
6	Indonesian (id) Teori kinetika gas		27.5975
7	German (de) Kinetische Gastheorie		27.5263
8	Persian (fa) نظریه جنبشی		27.0674
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thuyết động học chất khí		26.7148
10	Portuguese (pt) Teoria cinética dos gases		25.7546

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Teoría cinética de los gases		4 164 034
2	English (en) Kinetic theory of gases		2 436 324
3	Russian (ru) Молекулярно-кинетическая теория		1 717 620
4	Italian (it) Teoria cinetica dei gas		563 161
5	French (fr) Théorie cinétique des gaz		445 597
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria cinética dos gases		434 609
7	Thai (th) ทฤษฎีจลน์ของแก๊ส		388 620
8	Chinese (zh) 分子运动论		375 530
9	Indonesian (id) Teori kinetika gas		374 546
10	Japanese (ja) 気体分子運動論		339 925

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) Kinetic theory of gases		5 073
2	Russian (ru) Молекулярно-кинетическая теория		1 207
3	Spanish (es) Teoría cinética de los gases		824
4	Chinese (zh) 分子运动论		746
5	French (fr) Théorie cinétique des gaz		581
6	German (de) Kinetische Gastheorie		422
7	Italian (it) Teoria cinetica dei gas		412
8	Thai (th) ทฤษฎีจลน์ของแก๊ส		407
9	Japanese (ja) 気体分子運動論		385
10	Korean (ko) 기체 분자 운동론		346

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kinetic theory of gases		481
2	Spanish (es) Teoría cinética de los gases		134
3	French (fr) Théorie cinétique des gaz		85
4	Italian (it) Teoria cinetica dei gas		76
5	German (de) Kinetische Gastheorie		72
6	Russian (ru) Молекулярно-кинетическая теория		71
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria cinética dos gases		49
8	Chinese (zh) 分子运动论		46
9	Hebrew (he) התאוריה הקינטית של הגזים		38
10	Dutch (nl) Kinetische gastheorie		35

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) Kinetic theory of gases		2
2	Basque (eu) Teoria zinetiko		1
3	Norwegian (no) Kinetisk teori		1
4	Arabic (ar) النظرية الحركية للغازات		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Molekulyar-kinetik nəzəriyyə		0
6	Belarusian (be) Кінетычная тэорыя газаў		0
7	Catalan (ca) Teoria cinètica molecular		0
8	Czech (cs) Kinetická teorie látek		0
9	Danish (da) Kinetisk gasteori		0
10	German (de) Kinetische Gastheorie		0

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

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