Wave vector

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Wave vector

Quality:

Wave vector - vector pointing in the direction of a wave and whose magnitude is equal to the wavenumber. Article “Wave vector” in English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Wave vector”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 415 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 195 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1081 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #67943 in August 2020
  • Global: #16735 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #94287 in April 2015
  • Global: #83802 in January 2015

There are 27 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Czech (cs)
Vlnový vektor
26.5719
2Ukrainian (uk)
Хвильовий вектор
26.1472
3English (en)
Wave vector
25.1357
4French (fr)
Vecteur d'onde
23.5396
5Chinese (zh)
波矢
22.7594
6Kazakh (kk)
Толқындық вектор
22.012
7Korean (ko)
파수 벡터
15.4281
8Japanese (ja)
波数ベクトル
13.1996
9Arabic (ar)
متجه موجي
12.4028
10Turkish (tr)
Dalga vektörü
11.6084
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Wave vector" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wave vector
1 432 294
2German (de)
Wellenvektor
555 580
3French (fr)
Vecteur d'onde
277 225
4Russian (ru)
Волновой вектор
264 762
5Italian (it)
Vettore d'onda
144 889
6Chinese (zh)
波矢
136 647
7Spanish (es)
Vector de onda
111 000
8Polish (pl)
Wektor falowy
92 127
9Japanese (ja)
波数ベクトル
75 300
10Arabic (ar)
متجه موجي
31 353
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Wave vector" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wave vector
3 630
2German (de)
Wellenvektor
1 094
3Russian (ru)
Волновой вектор
898
4Japanese (ja)
波数ベクトル
679
5French (fr)
Vecteur d'onde
639
6Chinese (zh)
波矢
509
7Italian (it)
Vettore d'onda
438
8Polish (pl)
Wektor falowy
197
9Spanish (es)
Vector de onda
181
10Czech (cs)
Vlnový vektor
85
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Wave vector" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Wellenvektor
79
2English (en)
Wave vector
68
3French (fr)
Vecteur d'onde
44
4Russian (ru)
Волновой вектор
38
5Italian (it)
Vettore d'onda
31
6Dutch (nl)
Golfvector
21
7Polish (pl)
Wektor falowy
16
8Arabic (ar)
متجه موجي
12
9Turkish (tr)
Dalga vektörü
12
10Hebrew (he)
וקטור גל
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Wave vector" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Wellenvektor
2
2Russian (ru)
Волновой вектор
1
3Swedish (sv)
Vågvektor
1
4Ukrainian (uk)
Хвильовий вектор
1
5Arabic (ar)
متجه موجي
0
6Catalan (ca)
Vector d'ona
0
7Czech (cs)
Vlnový vektor
0
8English (en)
Wave vector
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Onda vektoro
0
10Spanish (es)
Vector de onda
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Wave vector" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Wave vector
195
2German (de)
Wellenvektor
132
3French (fr)
Vecteur d'onde
98
4Russian (ru)
Волновой вектор
92
5Hebrew (he)
וקטור גל
69
6Italian (it)
Vettore d'onda
66
7Ukrainian (uk)
Хвильовий вектор
65
8Spanish (es)
Vector de onda
49
9Chinese (zh)
波矢
49
10Catalan (ca)
Vector d'ona
32
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
متجه موجي
caCatalan
Vector d'ona
csCzech
Vlnový vektor
deGerman
Wellenvektor
enEnglish
Wave vector
eoEsperanto
Onda vektoro
esSpanish
Vector de onda
faPersian
بردار موج
fiFinnish
Aaltovektori
frFrench
Vecteur d'onde
glGalician
Vector de onda
heHebrew
וקטור גל
itItalian
Vettore d'onda
jaJapanese
波数ベクトル
kaGeorgian
ტალღური ვექტორი
kkKazakh
Толқындық вектор
koKorean
파수 벡터
ltLithuanian
Bangos vektorius
nlDutch
Golfvector
plPolish
Wektor falowy
ptPortuguese
Vetor de onda
ruRussian
Волновой вектор
slSlovenian
Valovni vektor
svSwedish
Vågvektor
trTurkish
Dalga vektörü
ukUkrainian
Хвильовий вектор
zhChinese
波矢

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#94287
04.2015
Global:
#83802
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#67943
08.2020
Global:
#16735
08.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Wave vector from Wikipedia articles about Wavenumber, Phase velocity, K-vector, Dispersion relation and Poynting vector. Whereas reading the article about Wave vector people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Wavenumber, Bloch theorem, Wave, Phase and Wavefront.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 波矢

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