Shield volcano

Quality:

Shield volcano - type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows. Article “Shield volcano” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 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 “Shield volcano”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5578 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #507 in August 2018
• Global: #1224 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #394 in July 2008
• Global: #14519 in May 2018

There are 40 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) Shield volcano		84.0469
2	Slovenian (sl) Ščitasti vulkan		51.2082
3	Thai (th) ภูเขาไฟรูปโล่		44.1299
4	Arabic (ar) بركان درعي		43.815
5	Czech (cs) Štítová sopka		37.7654
6	Catalan (ca) Volcà escut		33.055
7	Serbian (sr) Штитасти вулкан		28.7465
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Štitasti vulkan		28.6511
9	Persian (fa) آتشفشان سپری		27.5258
10	Tamil (ta) கேடய எரிமலை		26.4376

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shield volcano		5 050 452
2	German (de) Schildvulkan		915 438
3	Spanish (es) Volcán en escudo		422 530
4	Japanese (ja) 楯状火山		330 249
5	French (fr) Volcan bouclier		325 462
6	Russian (ru) Щитовой вулкан		237 105
7	Polish (pl) Wulkan tarczowy		225 828
8	Dutch (nl) Schildvulkaan		194 869
9	Italian (it) Vulcano a scudo		160 469
10	Indonesian (id) Gunung berapi perisai		146 820

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) Shield volcano		10 645
2	Japanese (ja) 楯状火山		1 150
3	French (fr) Volcan bouclier		1 039
4	German (de) Schildvulkan		1 033
5	Spanish (es) Volcán en escudo		718
6	Russian (ru) Щитовой вулкан		623
7	Italian (it) Vulcano a scudo		570
8	Polish (pl) Wulkan tarczowy		422
9	Chinese (zh) 盾狀火山		369
10	Dutch (nl) Schildvulkaan		327

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shield volcano		526
2	German (de) Schildvulkan		194
3	French (fr) Volcan bouclier		59
4	Dutch (nl) Schildvulkaan		58
5	Russian (ru) Щитовой вулкан		39
6	Spanish (es) Volcán en escudo		37
7	Polish (pl) Wulkan tarczowy		27
8	Vietnamese (vi) Núi lửa hình khiên		24
9	Danish (da) Skjoldvulkan		23
10	Norwegian (no) Skjoldvulkan		21

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) 楯状火山		2
2	Arabic (ar) بركان درعي		1
3	English (en) Shield volcano		1
4	Slovenian (sl) Ščitasti vulkan		1
5	Catalan (ca) Volcà escut		0
6	Czech (cs) Štítová sopka		0
7	Danish (da) Skjoldvulkan		0
8	German (de) Schildvulkan		0
9	Greek (el) Ασπιδοειδές ηφαίστειο		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ŝilda vulkano		0

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

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