Simulated annealing

Simulated annealing - numerical optimization technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results. Article “Simulated annealing” in English Wikipedia has 54 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.84 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 “Simulated annealing”, its content was written by 257 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 732 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 264 times in English Wikipedia and cited 878 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2916 in October 2003
• Global: #9111 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #33673 in April 2015
• Global: #40192 in December 2015

There are 22 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) 模拟退火		61.0287
2	English (en) Simulated annealing		53.9925
3	Persian (fa) الگوریتم تبرید شبیه‌سازی‌شده		31.1457
4	Czech (cs) Simulované žíhání		27.932
5	German (de) Simulated Annealing		27.2914
6	Arabic (ar) تخمير محاكى		22.3607
7	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		21.0882
8	French (fr) Recuit simulé		19.9772
9	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		15.3111
10	Catalan (ca) Recuita simulada		12.116

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Simulated annealing		3 723 706
2	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		564 875
3	Chinese (zh) 模拟退火		359 757
4	Russian (ru) Алгоритм имитации отжига		320 321
5	French (fr) Recuit simulé		302 714
6	German (de) Simulated Annealing		296 353
7	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		183 261
8	Polish (pl) Symulowane wyżarzanie		107 474
9	Portuguese (pt) Simulated annealing		96 610
10	Persian (fa) الگوریتم تبرید شبیه‌سازی‌شده		89 037

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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 "Simulated annealing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Simulated annealing		12 587
2	Chinese (zh) 模拟退火		1 315
3	Russian (ru) Алгоритм имитации отжига		1 137
4	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		1 091
5	French (fr) Recuit simulé		836
6	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		629
7	German (de) Simulated Annealing		575
8	Polish (pl) Symulowane wyżarzanie		315
9	Korean (ko) 담금질 기법		190
10	Portuguese (pt) Simulated annealing		174

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Simulated annealing		257
2	German (de) Simulated Annealing		80
3	French (fr) Recuit simulé		68
4	Chinese (zh) 模拟退火		46
5	Russian (ru) Алгоритм имитации отжига		34
6	Dutch (nl) Simulated annealing		33
7	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		28
8	Italian (it) Ricottura simulata		26
9	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		24
10	Portuguese (pt) Simulated annealing		19

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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 "Simulated annealing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Ricottura simulata		1
2	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		1
3	Arabic (ar) تخمير محاكى		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Симулирано закаляване		0
5	Catalan (ca) Recuita simulada		0
6	Czech (cs) Simulované žíhání		0
7	Danish (da) Simuleret udglødning		0
8	German (de) Simulated Annealing		0
9	English (en) Simulated annealing		0
10	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		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 "Simulated annealing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Simulated annealing		264
2	Japanese (ja) 焼きなまし法		143
3	Russian (ru) Алгоритм имитации отжига		74
4	Ukrainian (uk) Алгоритм імітації відпалу		64
5	Persian (fa) الگوریتم تبرید شبیه‌سازی‌شده		59
6	French (fr) Recuit simulé		43
7	German (de) Simulated Annealing		36
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de recocido simulado		35
9	Chinese (zh) 模拟退火		31
10	Arabic (ar) تخمير محاكى		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تخمير محاكى
bg	Bulgarian Симулирано закаляване
ca	Catalan Recuita simulada
cs	Czech Simulované žíhání
da	Danish Simuleret udglødning
de	German Simulated Annealing
en	English Simulated annealing
es	Spanish Algoritmo de recocido simulado
fa	Persian الگوریتم تبرید شبیه‌سازی‌شده
fr	French Recuit simulé
id	Indonesian Simulated annealing
it	Italian Ricottura simulata
ja	Japanese 焼きなまし法
ko	Korean 담금질 기법
nl	Dutch Simulated annealing
pl	Polish Symulowane wyżarzanie
pt	Portuguese Simulated annealing
ru	Russian Алгоритм имитации отжига
th	Thai การจำลองการอบเหนียว
tr	Turkish Benzetilmiş tavlama
uk	Ukrainian Алгоритм імітації відпалу
zh	Chinese 模拟退火

Best Rank

English: #33673 04.2015

Global: #40192 12.2015

Best Rank

English: #2916 10.2003

Global: #9111 10.2003

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