Tipping points in the climate system

Climate tipping point - threshold that, when exceeded, can lead to large change in the Earth system. Article “Tipping points in the climate system” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 253 references and 32 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Tipping points in the climate system” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tipping points in the climate system”, its content was written by 204 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 430 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 861 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2474 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3463 in November 2021
• Global: #8730 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #82970 in August 2021
• Global: #107798 in July 2023

There are 23 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	Norwegian (no) Vippepunkt (klima)		100
2	Czech (cs) Body zvratu klimatického systému		99.4368
3	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		96.3941
4	Japanese (ja) 気候転換点		91.0172
5	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		81.5706
6	Catalan (ca) Punts de no retorn en el sistema climàtic de la Terra		79.0549
7	Finnish (fi) Ilmaston keikahduspisteet		70.9165
8	Portuguese (pt) Aquecimento global descontrolado		69.4215
9	Greek (el) Σημεία καμπής στο κλιματικό σύστημα		58.3431
10	French (fr) Points de basculement dans le système climatique		46.5444

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tipping points in the climate system" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		809 630
2	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		252 039
3	French (fr) Points de basculement dans le système climatique		38 395
4	Spanish (es) Punto de inflexión (climatología)		30 689
5	Russian (ru) Критические факторы изменения климата		16 651
6	Dutch (nl) Kantelpunten in het klimaat		10 560
7	Portuguese (pt) Aquecimento global descontrolado		9 472
8	Hungarian (hu) Globális éghajlati fordulópont		8 952
9	Norwegian (no) Vippepunkt (klima)		8 270
10	Czech (cs) Body zvratu klimatického systému		6 816

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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 "Tipping points in the climate system" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		5 749
2	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		1 506
3	French (fr) Points de basculement dans le système climatique		402
4	Japanese (ja) 気候転換点		186
5	Russian (ru) Критические факторы изменения климата		153
6	Chinese (zh) 气候临界点		148
7	Polish (pl) Punkty krytyczne w ziemskim systemie klimatycznym		132
8	Spanish (es) Punto de inflexión (climatología)		112
9	Norwegian (no) Vippepunkt (klima)		89
10	Portuguese (pt) Aquecimento global descontrolado		82

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

Language versions of the article "Tipping points in the climate system" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		204
2	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		70
3	French (fr) Points de basculement dans le système climatique		24
4	Norwegian (no) Vippepunkt (klima)		22
5	Spanish (es) Punto de inflexión (climatología)		21
6	Russian (ru) Критические факторы изменения климата		9
7	Swedish (sv) Tippningspunkt		9
8	Czech (cs) Body zvratu klimatického systému		8
9	Finnish (fi) Ilmaston keikahduspisteet		7
10	Japanese (ja) 気候転換点		7

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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 "Tipping points in the climate system" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		3
2	Catalan (ca) Punts de no retorn en el sistema climàtic de la Terra		2
3	French (fr) Points de basculement dans le système climatique		2
4	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		1
5	Japanese (ja) 気候転換点		1
6	Russian (ru) Критические факторы изменения климата		1
7	Arabic (ar) نقاط التحول في النظام المناخي		0
8	Czech (cs) Body zvratu klimatického systému		0
9	Danish (da) Vippepunkt		0
10	Greek (el) Σημεία καμπής στο κλιματικό σύστημα		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 "Tipping points in the climate system" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tipping points in the climate system		861
2	Arabic (ar) نقاط التحول في النظام المناخي		263
3	Persian (fa) نقطه‌های عطف سامانه اقلیمی		251
4	Chinese (zh) 气候临界点		242
5	Portuguese (pt) Aquecimento global descontrolado		165
6	Dutch (nl) Kantelpunten in het klimaat		126
7	Czech (cs) Body zvratu klimatického systému		113
8	German (de) Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem		100
9	Norwegian (no) Vippepunkt (klima)		68
10	Vietnamese (vi) Điểm tới hạn trong hệ thống khí hậu		67

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقاط التحول في النظام المناخي
ca	Catalan Punts de no retorn en el sistema climàtic de la Terra
cs	Czech Body zvratu klimatického systému
da	Danish Vippepunkt
de	German Kippelemente im Erdklimasystem
el	Greek Σημεία καμπής στο κλιματικό σύστημα
en	English Tipping points in the climate system
es	Spanish Punto de inflexión (climatología)
eu	Basque Sistema klimatikoaren itzulera gabeko puntuak
fa	Persian نقطه‌های عطف سامانه اقلیمی
fi	Finnish Ilmaston keikahduspisteet
fr	French Points de basculement dans le système climatique
hu	Hungarian Globális éghajlati fordulópont
hy	Armenian Կլիմայի փոփոխության կրիտիկական գործոններ
ja	Japanese 気候転換点
nl	Dutch Kantelpunten in het klimaat
no	Norwegian Vippepunkt (klima)
pl	Polish Punkty krytyczne w ziemskim systemie klimatycznym
pt	Portuguese Aquecimento global descontrolado
ru	Russian Критические факторы изменения климата
sv	Swedish Tippningspunkt
vi	Vietnamese Điểm tới hạn trong hệ thống khí hậu
zh	Chinese 气候临界点

Best Rank

English: #82970 08.2021

Global: #107798 07.2023

Best Rank

English: #3463 11.2021

Global: #8730 09.2022

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