Van Allen radiation belt

Quality:

Van Allen radiation belt - zone of energetic charged particles around the planet Earth. Article “Van Allen radiation belt” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Van Allen radiation belt”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1716 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2711 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3028 in May 2019
• Global: #1956 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16464 in April 2026
• Global: #4532 in April 2026

There are 50 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	Malay (ms) Sabuk sinaran Van Allen		85.3981
2	English (en) Van Allen radiation belt		80.7048
3	Chinese (zh) 范艾伦辐射带		73.7043
4	Greek (el) Ζώνες Βαν Άλεν		63.6874
5	Estonian (et) Van Alleni kiirgusvöönd		57.2075
6	Croatian (hr) Van Allenovi pojasi zračenja		53.5017
7	Turkish (tr) Van Allen kuşağı		50.3232
8	German (de) Van-Allen-Gürtel		48.0089
9	Ukrainian (uk) Радіаційні пояси		45.8112
10	Catalan (ca) Cinturó de Van Allen		45.0842

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Van Allen radiation belt		6 943 662
2	Spanish (es) Cinturones de Van Allen		1 131 959
3	Japanese (ja) ヴァン・アレン帯		932 230
4	French (fr) Ceinture de Van Allen		931 237
5	Russian (ru) Радиационный пояс		845 598
6	German (de) Van-Allen-Gürtel		828 647
7	Italian (it) Fasce di Van Allen		666 248
8	Portuguese (pt) Cinturão de Van Allen		477 130
9	Polish (pl) Pas Van Allena		432 981
10	Chinese (zh) 范艾伦辐射带		222 657

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) Van Allen radiation belt		17 699
2	French (fr) Ceinture de Van Allen		3 118
3	German (de) Van-Allen-Gürtel		2 147
4	Russian (ru) Радиационный пояс		1 676
5	Japanese (ja) ヴァン・アレン帯		1 446
6	Spanish (es) Cinturones de Van Allen		1 366
7	Italian (it) Fasce di Van Allen		1 208
8	Chinese (zh) 范艾伦辐射带		729
9	Polish (pl) Pas Van Allena		631
10	Portuguese (pt) Cinturão de Van Allen		314

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Van Allen radiation belt		459
2	German (de) Van-Allen-Gürtel		163
3	French (fr) Ceinture de Van Allen		118
4	Italian (it) Fasce di Van Allen		90
5	Russian (ru) Радиационный пояс		86
6	Dutch (nl) Vanallengordels		65
7	Spanish (es) Cinturones de Van Allen		56
8	Hebrew (he) חגורות ואן אלן		44
9	Finnish (fi) Van Allenin vyöhyke		42
10	Japanese (ja) ヴァン・アレン帯		42

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	Arabic (ar) حزام فان آلن الإشعاعي		1
2	Basque (eu) Van Allenen gerrikoak		1
3	Indonesian (id) Sabuk radiasi Van Allen		1
4	Chinese (zh) 范艾伦辐射带		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Van Allen Qurşaqları		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Радиационен пояс на Ван Алън		0
7	Catalan (ca) Cinturó de Van Allen		0
8	Czech (cs) Van Allenovy pásy		0
9	Danish (da) Van Allen-bælterne		0
10	German (de) Van-Allen-Gürtel		0

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

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