Peter Higgs

Quality:

Peter Higgs - British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024). Article “Peter Higgs” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 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 “Peter Higgs”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1648 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 189 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12537 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #211 in July 2012
• Global: #22 in April 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3562 in April 2014
• Global: #855 in July 2012

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, 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) Peter Higgs		88.4735
2	Malay (ms) Peter Higgs		68.9669
3	Volapük (vo) Peter Higgs		64.8852
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Peter Higgs		63.9563
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пітер Хіггс		58.331
6	Georgian (ka) პიტერ ჰიგსი		44.199
7	Serbian (sr) Питер Хигс		43.173
8	Hungarian (hu) Peter Higgs		41.6666
9	Norwegian (no) Peter Higgs		41.37
10	Chinese (zh) 彼得·希格斯		40.7638

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Peter Higgs		3 273 300
2	Spanish (es) Peter Higgs		555 629
3	German (de) Peter Higgs		458 862
4	Russian (ru) Хиггс, Питер		383 545
5	Italian (it) Peter Higgs		323 441
6	French (fr) Peter Higgs		258 475
7	Japanese (ja) ピーター・ヒッグス		179 364
8	Polish (pl) Peter Higgs		178 418
9	Portuguese (pt) Peter Higgs		156 754
10	Chinese (zh) 彼得·希格斯		134 827

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) Peter Higgs		10 683
2	German (de) Peter Higgs		1 662
3	French (fr) Peter Higgs		1 305
4	Russian (ru) Хиггс, Питер		1 166
5	Spanish (es) Peter Higgs		1 082
6	Italian (it) Peter Higgs		955
7	Polish (pl) Peter Higgs		839
8	Chinese (zh) 彼得·希格斯		481
9	Dutch (nl) Peter Higgs		457
10	Japanese (ja) ピーター・ヒッグス		404

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Peter Higgs		391
2	German (de) Peter Higgs		122
3	Italian (it) Peter Higgs		104
4	French (fr) Peter Higgs		95
5	Spanish (es) Peter Higgs		76
6	Russian (ru) Хиггс, Питер		61
7	Dutch (nl) Peter Higgs		55
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пітер Хіггс		41
9	Chinese (zh) 彼得·希格斯		40
10	Japanese (ja) ピーター・ヒッグス		37

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	Arabic (ar) بيتر هيغز		1
2	Catalan (ca) Peter Higgs		1
3	Finnish (fi) Peter Higgs		1
4	French (fr) Peter Higgs		1
5	Italian (it) Peter Higgs		1
6	Japanese (ja) ピーター・ヒッグス		1
7	Georgian (ka) პიტერ ჰიგსი		1
8	Dutch (nl) Peter Higgs		1
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Peter Higgs		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пітер Хіггс		1

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

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