Solar flare

Quality:

Solar flare - sudden flash of increased brightness on the Sun, usually observed near its surface and in close proximity to a sunspot group. Article “Solar flare” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 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 “Solar flare”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1692 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5902 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4175 in September 2019
• Global: #2377 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8246 in September 2017
• Global: #1406 in September 2017

There are 43 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) Solar flare		77.437
2	Chinese (zh) 耀斑		75.5794
3	German (de) Sonneneruption		45.3323
4	Greek (el) Ηλιακή έκλαμψη		43.1138
5	Croatian (hr) Sunčev bljesak		42.5054
6	Japanese (ja) 太陽フレア		40.3778
7	Estonian (et) Päikese loide		36.828
8	Malay (ms) Suar suria		36.4512
9	French (fr) Éruption solaire		35.7363
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Sunčeve baklje		34.4363

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar flare		6 659 227
2	Japanese (ja) 太陽フレア		2 048 451
3	French (fr) Éruption solaire		765 844
4	Russian (ru) Солнечная вспышка		691 476
5	German (de) Sonneneruption		554 535
6	Spanish (es) Erupción solar		503 354
7	Chinese (zh) 耀斑		349 026
8	Italian (it) Brillamento		331 261
9	Dutch (nl) Zonnevlam		190 533
10	Polish (pl) Rozbłysk słoneczny		166 424

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) Solar flare		9 624
2	Japanese (ja) 太陽フレア		2 376
3	Russian (ru) Солнечная вспышка		1 791
4	French (fr) Éruption solaire		1 695
5	Chinese (zh) 耀斑		1 037
6	German (de) Sonneneruption		974
7	Italian (it) Brillamento		478
8	Polish (pl) Rozbłysk słoneczny		390
9	Bulgarian (bg) Слънчево изригване		285
10	Romanian (ro) Erupție solară		274

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Solar flare		652
2	French (fr) Éruption solaire		134
3	German (de) Sonneneruption		105
4	Japanese (ja) 太陽フレア		66
5	Dutch (nl) Zonnevlam		64
6	Spanish (es) Erupción solar		50
7	Russian (ru) Солнечная вспышка		48
8	Italian (it) Brillamento		45
9	Finnish (fi) Auringon soihtu		35
10	Chinese (zh) 耀斑		34

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	German (de) Sonneneruption		3
2	Arabic (ar) اندلاع شمسي		1
3	French (fr) Éruption solaire		1
4	Russian (ru) Солнечная вспышка		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Flare (astronomiya)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Сонечная ўспышка		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Слънчево изригване		0
8	Catalan (ca) Erupció solar		0
9	Czech (cs) Sluneční erupce		0
10	Danish (da) Soludbrud		0

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

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