Smelting

Smelting - use of heat and a reducing agent to purify metal from ore. Article “Smelting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.07 points.

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 “Smelting”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3126 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1395 in April 2026
• Global: #17162 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9789 in January 2018
• Global: #43178 in March 2014

There are 20 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) Smelting		65.4581
2	Chinese (zh) 冶炼		57.5123
3	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		42.27
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nấu luyện		36.9335
5	Turkish (tr) İzabe		28.7577
6	Dutch (nl) Smelten (metaalwinning)		27.4578
7	Japanese (ja) 製錬		23.4646
8	Russian (ru) Плавка		22.665
9	Kazakh (kk) Балқыту		22.4847
10	Arabic (ar) صهر (علم الفلزات)		21.531

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Smelting" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smelting		4 739 322
2	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		995 386
3	Japanese (ja) 製錬		300 167
4	Russian (ru) Плавка		78 882
5	Indonesian (id) Peleburan (metalurgi)		65 648
6	Chinese (zh) 冶炼		57 825
7	Hindi (hi) प्रगलन		42 098
8	Hebrew (he) היתוך (מתכת)		38 616
9	Korean (ko) 제련		32 560
10	Turkish (tr) İzabe		32 000

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Smelting" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smelting		9 112
2	Japanese (ja) 製錬		556
3	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		356
4	Chinese (zh) 冶炼		356
5	Russian (ru) Плавка		150
6	Korean (ko) 제련		112
7	Dutch (nl) Smelten (metaalwinning)		65
8	Turkish (tr) İzabe		65
9	Persian (fa) گدازگری		53
10	Simple English (simple) Smelting		49

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

Language versions of the article "Smelting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smelting		391
2	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		26
3	Japanese (ja) 製錬		22
4	Dutch (nl) Smelten (metaalwinning)		12
5	Portuguese (pt) Fundição (metalurgia)		12
6	Simple English (simple) Smelting		12
7	Chinese (zh) 冶炼		12
8	Hebrew (he) היתוך (מתכת)		11
9	Russian (ru) Плавка		10
10	Persian (fa) گدازگری		9

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

Language versions of the article "Smelting" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 제련		1
2	Vietnamese (vi) Nấu luyện		1
3	Arabic (ar) صهر (علم الفلزات)		0
4	English (en) Smelting		0
5	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		0
6	Persian (fa) گدازگری		0
7	Hebrew (he) היתוך (מתכת)		0
8	Hindi (hi) प्रगलन		0
9	Indonesian (id) Peleburan (metalurgi)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 製錬		0

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

Language versions of the article "Smelting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Smelting		1 739
2	Japanese (ja) 製錬		205
3	Arabic (ar) صهر (علم الفلزات)		176
4	Spanish (es) Fundición (metalurgia)		160
5	Chinese (zh) 冶炼		138
6	Russian (ru) Плавка		104
7	Indonesian (id) Peleburan (metalurgi)		87
8	Korean (ko) 제련		75
9	Turkish (tr) İzabe		62
10	Kazakh (kk) Балқыту		59

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صهر (علم الفلزات)
en	English Smelting
es	Spanish Fundición (metalurgia)
fa	Persian گدازگری
he	Hebrew היתוך (מתכת)
hi	Hindi प्रगलन
id	Indonesian Peleburan (metalurgi)
ja	Japanese 製錬
kk	Kazakh Балқыту
ko	Korean 제련
nl	Dutch Smelten (metaalwinning)
pt	Portuguese Fundição (metalurgia)
ru	Russian Плавка
simple	Simple English Smelting
tr	Turkish İzabe
uk	Ukrainian Плавка
ur	Urdu دھاتوں کا حصول
uz	Uzbek Eritish
vi	Vietnamese Nấu luyện
zh	Chinese 冶炼

Best Rank

Simple English: #9789 01.2018

Global: #43178 03.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #1395 04.2026

Global: #17162 02.2002

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