Radioactive decay

Quality:

Radioactive decay - emission of subatomic particles by the decay of an atomic nucleus. Article “Radioactive decay” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Arabic.

Since the creation of article “Radioactive decay”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1947^th place) and edited by 290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 346 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8554^th place) and cited 2092 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #162 in April 2015
• Global: #2230 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #153 in April 2014
• Global: #19493 in March 2011

There are 8 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, 2025 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Radioaktiv stråling		39.8548
2	Simple English (simple) Radioactive decay		35.6538
3	French (fr) Décroissance radioactive		28.1197
4	Japanese (ja) 放射性崩壊		22.9172
5	Arabic (ar) إشعاع نووي		9.9672
6	Slovenian (sl) Jedrski razpad		4.1083
7	Dutch (nl) Radioactief verval		3.8046
8	Norwegian (no) Radioaktiv stråling		0.0692

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 放射性崩壊		995 539
2	French (fr) Décroissance radioactive		508 745
3	Arabic (ar) إشعاع نووي		375 245
4	Dutch (nl) Radioactief verval		178 776
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Radioaktiv stråling		174 348
6	Simple English (simple) Radioactive decay		149 550
7	Norwegian (no) Radioaktiv stråling		60 788
8	Slovenian (sl) Jedrski razpad		19 162

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Arabic (ar) إشعاع نووي		5 541
2	Japanese (ja) 放射性崩壊		2 880
3	Simple English (simple) Radioactive decay		2 143
4	French (fr) Décroissance radioactive		1 569
5	Dutch (nl) Radioactief verval		628
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Radioaktiv stråling		85
7	Slovenian (sl) Jedrski razpad		80
8	Norwegian (no) Radioaktiv stråling		32

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Décroissance radioactive		65
2	Simple English (simple) Radioactive decay		58
3	Dutch (nl) Radioactief verval		46
4	Japanese (ja) 放射性崩壊		44
5	Arabic (ar) إشعاع نووي		36
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Radioaktiv stråling		24
7	Norwegian (no) Radioaktiv stråling		13
8	Slovenian (sl) Jedrski razpad		4

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	Japanese (ja) 放射性崩壊		1
2	Arabic (ar) إشعاع نووي		0
3	French (fr) Décroissance radioactive		0
4	Dutch (nl) Radioactief verval		0
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Radioaktiv stråling		0
6	Norwegian (no) Radioaktiv stråling		0
7	Simple English (simple) Radioactive decay		0
8	Slovenian (sl) Jedrski razpad		0

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

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