Refraction

Quality:

Refraction - in physics, the change in direction of a wave at the interface between two media. Article “Refraction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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 “Refraction”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5597^th place) and edited by 2481 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12547 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #162 in July 2012
• Global: #231 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1214 in August 2017
• Global: #4070 in May 2008

There are 52 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) 折射		58.5074
2	English (en) Refraction		56.6869
3	Catalan (ca) Refracció		51.5174
4	Croatian (hr) Refrakcija		49.582
5	Korean (ko) 굴절		47.5027
6	Hebrew (he) שבירה		46.8744
7	Persian (fa) شکست (امواج)		41.6651
8	Polish (pl) Refrakcja		39.8793
9	French (fr) Réfraction		38.5147
10	Tamil (ta) ஒளி முறிவு		36.9831

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Refraction		7 826 084
2	Spanish (es) Refracción		7 006 926
3	Portuguese (pt) Refração		1 401 578
4	German (de) Brechung (Physik)		1 310 060
5	French (fr) Réfraction		1 304 451
6	Russian (ru) Преломление		1 227 262
7	Italian (it) Rifrazione		927 776
8	Arabic (ar) انكسار (فيزياء)		922 452
9	Polish (pl) Refrakcja		789 788
10	Romanian (ro) Refracție		540 969

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) Refraction		8 081
2	German (de) Brechung (Physik)		1 774
3	Spanish (es) Refracción		1 495
4	Russian (ru) Преломление		1 459
5	French (fr) Réfraction		1 011
6	Chinese (zh) 折射		751
7	Persian (fa) شکست (امواج)		689
8	Polish (pl) Refrakcja		569
9	Japanese (ja) 屈折		526
10	Italian (it) Rifrazione		508

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Refraction		452
2	German (de) Brechung (Physik)		255
3	French (fr) Réfraction		187
4	Spanish (es) Refracción		175
5	Italian (it) Rifrazione		105
6	Portuguese (pt) Refração		83
7	Dutch (nl) Lichtbreking		82
8	Russian (ru) Преломление		74
9	Hebrew (he) שבירה		65
10	Danish (da) Refraktion		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	Hebrew (he) שבירה		1
2	Arabic (ar) انكسار (فيزياء)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) İşığın sınması		0
4	Belarusian (be) Пераламленне святла		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Пречупване		0
6	Catalan (ca) Refracció		0
7	Czech (cs) Lom vlnění		0
8	Danish (da) Refraktion		0
9	German (de) Brechung (Physik)		0
10	Greek (el) Διάθλαση		0

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

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