Radiation pressure

Quality:

Radiation pressure - pressure exerted upon any surface exposed to electromagnetic radiation. Article “Radiation pressure” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 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 “Radiation pressure”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 752 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1902 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2010 in November 2007
• Global: #5764 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7451 in November 2013
• Global: #73543 in November 2014

There are 35 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) Radiation pressure		72.5275
2	German (de) Strahlungsdruck		43.7212
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Tlak elektromagnetskog zračenja		38.3144
4	Croatian (hr) Tlak elektromagnetskog zračenja		36.0399
5	French (fr) Pression de rayonnement		35.9356
6	Polish (pl) Ciśnienie promieniowania		26.117
7	Hindi (hi) विकिरण दाब		25.5905
8	Russian (ru) Давление электромагнитного излучения		25.0541
9	Slovenian (sl) Sevalni tlak		24.0416
10	Norwegian (no) Strålingstrykk		23.7629

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radiation pressure		1 588 479
2	Russian (ru) Давление электромагнитного излучения		591 340
3	German (de) Strahlungsdruck		306 985
4	Spanish (es) Presión de radiación		157 958
5	French (fr) Pression de rayonnement		156 721
6	Japanese (ja) 放射圧		153 003
7	Italian (it) Pressione di radiazione		130 041
8	Chinese (zh) 輻射壓		94 697
9	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий тиск		77 284
10	Polish (pl) Ciśnienie promieniowania		71 622

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) Radiation pressure		3 502
2	Russian (ru) Давление электромагнитного излучения		636
3	German (de) Strahlungsdruck		531
4	French (fr) Pression de rayonnement		531
5	Japanese (ja) 放射圧		348
6	Chinese (zh) 輻射壓		266
7	Spanish (es) Presión de radiación		190
8	Italian (it) Pressione di radiazione		146
9	Polish (pl) Ciśnienie promieniowania		133
10	Simple English (simple) Radiation pressure		68

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Radiation pressure		182
2	German (de) Strahlungsdruck		88
3	French (fr) Pression de rayonnement		82
4	Russian (ru) Давление электромагнитного излучения		61
5	Italian (it) Pressione di radiazione		36
6	Dutch (nl) Stralingsdruk		29
7	Chinese (zh) 輻射壓		23
8	Spanish (es) Presión de radiación		21
9	Japanese (ja) 放射圧		20
10	Polish (pl) Ciśnienie promieniowania		20

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	French (fr) Pression de rayonnement		2
2	Indonesian (id) Tekanan radiasi		1
3	Arabic (ar) ضغط إشعاع		0
4	Belarusian (be) Ціск электрамагнітнага выпраменьвання		0
5	Catalan (ca) Pressió de radiació		0
6	German (de) Strahlungsdruck		0
7	English (en) Radiation pressure		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Premo de radiado		0
9	Spanish (es) Presión de radiación		0
10	Persian (fa) فشار تابش		0

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

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