Infrared homing

Infrared homing - weapon guidance system utilizing the target's infrared emissions to track it. Article “Infrared homing” in English Wikipedia has 74.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 75 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.25 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Infrared homing”, its content was written by 117 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 281 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 576 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1888 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25876 in August 2020
• Global: #66702 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28907 in March 2022
• Global: #39580 in March 2022

There are 19 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, 2025 (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) 紅外線導引		83.824
2	English (en) Infrared homing		74.2522
3	Hebrew (he) ביות תת-אדום		64.1526
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đầu dò hồng ngoại		48.8077
5	Slovenian (sl) Infrardeče vodenje		40.5443
6	Japanese (ja) 光波ホーミング誘導		40.5281
7	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		34.1303
8	Indonesian (id) Pemandu inframerah		31.6831
9	Italian (it) Missile a guida infrarossa		22.6072
10	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		13.5136

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared homing		1 667 192
2	Japanese (ja) 光波ホーミング誘導		293 198
3	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		201 435
4	Chinese (zh) 紅外線導引		94 330
5	Arabic (ar) توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء		65 293
6	Persian (fa) آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ		33 005
7	Italian (it) Missile a guida infrarossa		32 547
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		21 404
9	French (fr) Guidage de missile par infrarouge		20 645
10	Korean (ko) 적외선 유도		11 455

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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 "Infrared homing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infrared homing		10 839
2	Japanese (ja) 光波ホーミング誘導		1 732
3	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		996
4	Chinese (zh) 紅外線導引		548
5	Persian (fa) آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ		383
6	French (fr) Guidage de missile par infrarouge		295
7	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		295
8	Arabic (ar) توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء		199
9	Hebrew (he) ביות תת-אדום		171
10	Italian (it) Missile a guida infrarossa		158

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Infrared homing		117
2	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		22
3	Chinese (zh) 紅外線導引		22
4	Hebrew (he) ביות תת-אדום		21
5	Italian (it) Missile a guida infrarossa		16
6	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		15
7	Japanese (ja) 光波ホーミング誘導		12
8	French (fr) Guidage de missile par infrarouge		11
9	Arabic (ar) توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء		8
10	Persian (fa) آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ		8

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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 "Infrared homing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Đầu dò hồng ngoại		1
4	Arabic (ar) توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء		0
5	English (en) Infrared homing		0
6	Spanish (es) Búsqueda por infrarrojos		0
7	Persian (fa) آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ		0
8	French (fr) Guidage de missile par infrarouge		0
9	Hebrew (he) ביות תת-אדום		0
10	Indonesian (id) Pemandu inframerah		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 "Infrared homing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Infrared homing		576
2	Russian (ru) Инфракрасная головка самонаведения		192
3	Indonesian (id) Pemandu inframerah		148
4	Japanese (ja) 光波ホーミング誘導		147
5	Chinese (zh) 紅外線導引		127
6	Persian (fa) آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ		121
7	Italian (it) Missile a guida infrarossa		107
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теплова головка самонаведення		83
9	Arabic (ar) توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء		80
10	Korean (ko) 적외선 유도		80

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توجيه بالأشعة تحت الحمراء
en	English Infrared homing
es	Spanish Búsqueda por infrarrojos
fa	Persian آشیانه‌یابی فروسرخ
fr	French Guidage de missile par infrarouge
he	Hebrew ביות תת-אדום
id	Indonesian Pemandu inframerah
it	Italian Missile a guida infrarossa
ja	Japanese 光波ホーミング誘導
ko	Korean 적외선 유도
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Infraraud målsøkjar
no	Norwegian Infrarød målsøker
ru	Russian Инфракрасная головка самонаведения
sl	Slovenian Infrardeče vodenje
sv	Swedish Infraröd målsökare
tr	Turkish Kızılötesi güdüm
uk	Ukrainian Теплова головка самонаведення
vi	Vietnamese Đầu dò hồng ngoại
zh	Chinese 紅外線導引

Best Rank

English: #28907 03.2022

Global: #39580 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #25876 08.2020

Global: #66702 06.2022

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