Polarization

Quality:

Polarization - property of waves that can oscillate with more than one orientation. Article “Polarization” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.79 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Polarization”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2016 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #426 in September 2008
• Global: #1081 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1729 in March 2012
• Global: #5212 in January 2012

There are 46 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	Chinese (zh) 偏振		85.4745
2	English (en) Polarization (waves)		73.8657
3	Hungarian (hu) Polarizáció		68.8071
4	German (de) Polarisation		67.2385
5	Croatian (hr) Polarizirana svjetlost		53.145
6	Norwegian (no) Elektromagnetisk polarisasjon		50.9533
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Elektromagnetisk polarisering		50.7264
8	Polish (pl) Polaryzacja fali		50.6838
9	Spanish (es) Polarización electromagnética		50.1061
10	French (fr) Polarisation (optique)		47.5483

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polarization (waves)		7 899 533
2	German (de) Polarisation		2 582 536
3	Russian (ru) Поляризация волн		2 297 098
4	Spanish (es) Polarización electromagnética		2 186 428
5	Japanese (ja) 偏光		1 696 084
6	Polish (pl) Polaryzacja fali		1 556 213
7	French (fr) Polarisation (optique)		1 282 396
8	Chinese (zh) 偏振		760 109
9	Italian (it) Polarizzazione della radiazione elettromagnetica		570 799
10	Indonesian (id) Polarisasi (gelombang)		418 704

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) Polarization (waves)		12 081
2	German (de) Polarisation		2 869
3	Russian (ru) Поляризация волн		2 308
4	French (fr) Polarisation (optique)		1 803
5	Chinese (zh) 偏振		1 562
6	Japanese (ja) 偏光		1 367
7	Polish (pl) Polaryzacja fali		822
8	Korean (ko) 편광		780
9	Spanish (es) Polarización electromagnética		719
10	Italian (it) Polarizzazione della radiazione elettromagnetica		602

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polarization (waves)		420
2	German (de) Polarisation		255
3	French (fr) Polarisation (optique)		135
4	Russian (ru) Поляризация волн		109
5	Polish (pl) Polaryzacja fali		88
6	Spanish (es) Polarización electromagnética		74
7	Italian (it) Polarizzazione della radiazione elettromagnetica		70
8	Japanese (ja) 偏光		66
9	Dutch (nl) Polarisatie (elektromagnetisme)		59
10	Hebrew (he) קיטוב		55

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	Catalan (ca) Polarització electromagnètica		2
2	English (en) Polarization (waves)		1
3	Basque (eu) Polarizazio (uhinak)		1
4	French (fr) Polarisation (optique)		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Polarizáció		1
6	Japanese (ja) 偏光		1
7	Arabic (ar) استقطاب (فيزياء)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Палярызацыя святла		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Поляризация (вълни)		0
10	Czech (cs) Polarizace (elektrodynamika)		0

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

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