Plate tectonics

Quality:

Plate tectonics - scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. Article “Plate tectonics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese 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 1419^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2187^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1760^th most popular in all topics.

The 2365^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 4389^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6443^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Plate tectonics”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2187^th place) and edited by 4827 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2365^th place).

The article is cited 201 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19227 times in all languages (8993^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #43 in June 2010
• Global: #291 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #92 in June 2015
• Global: #152 in March 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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		85.0607
2	Esperanto (eo) Platotektoniko		84.8359
3	Dutch (nl) Platentektoniek		83.3838
4	Vietnamese (vi) Kiến tạo mảng		79.5291
5	Latin (la) Tectonica laminarum		77.3392
6	English (en) Plate tectonics		76.3063
7	Slovak (sk) Platňová tektonika		72.7957
8	German (de) Plattentektonik		69.18
9	Czech (cs) Desková tektonika		68.8703
10	Basque (eu) Plaken tektonika		63.5291

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plate tectonics		26 672 418
2	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		9 817 084
3	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		5 707 468
4	German (de) Plattentektonik		5 331 246
5	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		3 268 686
6	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		2 732 768
7	Japanese (ja) プレートテクトニクス		2 363 440
8	Indonesian (id) Tektonika lempeng		2 082 755
9	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		1 947 852
10	Arabic (ar) الصفائح التكتونية		1 818 546

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) Plate tectonics		62 519
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		14 797
3	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		9 632
4	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		9 156
5	Japanese (ja) プレートテクトニクス		7 540
6	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		4 467
7	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		3 927
8	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		3 387
9	Chinese (zh) 板块构造论		2 165
10	Korean (ko) 판 구조론		1 648

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plate tectonics		1 186
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		414
3	French (fr) Tectonique des plaques		307
4	Spanish (es) Tectónica de placas		299
5	Portuguese (pt) Tectónica de placas		235
6	Italian (it) Tettonica delle placche		230
7	Dutch (nl) Platentektoniek		166
8	Hebrew (he) טקטוניקת הלוחות		141
9	Russian (ru) Тектоника плит		137
10	Chinese (zh) 板块构造论		117

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	Indonesian (id) Tektonika lempeng		3
2	German (de) Plattentektonik		2
3	Serbian (sr) Тектоника плоча		2
4	Arabic (ar) الصفائح التكتونية		1
5	Czech (cs) Desková tektonika		1
6	Greek (el) Τεκτονικές πλάκες		1
7	English (en) Plate tectonics		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Platotektoniko		1
9	Basque (eu) Plaken tektonika		1
10	Croatian (hr) Tektonika ploča		1

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

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