Diffusion Rayleigh

Rayleigh scattering - elastic scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles of size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. Article “Diffusion Rayleigh” in French Wikipedia has 20.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Diffusion Rayleigh”, its content was written by 87 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1187 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 153 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1906 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #2626 in January 2004
• Global: #569 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #12223 in November 2008
• Global: #14364 in May 2014

There are 44 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	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		55.7303
2	Malay (ms) Serakan Rayleigh		49.1887
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Rayleighspreiing		42.6445
4	Estonian (et) Rayleigh' hajumine		41.6276
5	Slovenian (sl) Rayleighovo sipanje		40.6639
6	Norwegian (no) Rayleigh-spredning		38.6133
7	Turkish (tr) Rayleigh saçılması		37.775
8	Azerbaijani (az) Reyli səpələnməsi		35.209
9	Catalan (ca) Difusió de Rayleigh		33.8251
10	Chinese (zh) 瑞利散射		32.2959

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Diffusion Rayleigh" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		5 558 392
2	Japanese (ja) レイリー散乱		1 186 725
3	German (de) Rayleigh-Streuung		1 004 883
4	Spanish (es) Dispersión de Rayleigh		792 076
5	Chinese (zh) 瑞利散射		634 263
6	Russian (ru) Рэлеевское рассеяние		536 507
7	French (fr) Diffusion Rayleigh		495 253
8	Italian (it) Scattering di Rayleigh		383 313
9	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie Rayleigha		262 008
10	Portuguese (pt) Dispersão de Rayleigh		189 299

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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 "Diffusion Rayleigh" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		19 241
2	Japanese (ja) レイリー散乱		3 040
3	German (de) Rayleigh-Streuung		2 661
4	French (fr) Diffusion Rayleigh		1 966
5	Russian (ru) Рэлеевское рассеяние		1 836
6	Chinese (zh) 瑞利散射		1 792
7	Italian (it) Scattering di Rayleigh		1 342
8	Spanish (es) Dispersión de Rayleigh		1 111
9	Korean (ko) 레일리 산란		757
10	Polish (pl) Rozpraszanie Rayleigha		710

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		301
2	German (de) Rayleigh-Streuung		112
3	French (fr) Diffusion Rayleigh		87
4	Italian (it) Scattering di Rayleigh		56
5	Dutch (nl) Rayleighverstrooiing		48
6	Spanish (es) Dispersión de Rayleigh		46
7	Russian (ru) Рэлеевское рассеяние		46
8	Hebrew (he) פיזור ריילי		40
9	Turkish (tr) Rayleigh saçılması		35
10	Chinese (zh) 瑞利散射		34

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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 "Diffusion Rayleigh" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		3
2	Spanish (es) Dispersión de Rayleigh		2
3	Basque (eu) Rayleighen sakabanaketa		1
4	Arabic (ar) تبعثر رايلي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Reyli səpələnməsi		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Разсейване на Рейли		0
7	Catalan (ca) Difusió de Rayleigh		0
8	Czech (cs) Rayleighův rozptyl		0
9	Danish (da) Rayleigh-spredning		0
10	German (de) Rayleigh-Streuung		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 "Diffusion Rayleigh" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rayleigh scattering		331
2	French (fr) Diffusion Rayleigh		153
3	Chinese (zh) 瑞利散射		134
4	German (de) Rayleigh-Streuung		113
5	Spanish (es) Dispersión de Rayleigh		85
6	Russian (ru) Рэлеевское рассеяние		79
7	Japanese (ja) レイリー散乱		73
8	Turkish (tr) Rayleigh saçılması		71
9	Catalan (ca) Difusió de Rayleigh		63
10	Italian (it) Scattering di Rayleigh		60

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تبعثر رايلي
az	Azerbaijani Reyli səpələnməsi
bg	Bulgarian Разсейване на Рейли
ca	Catalan Difusió de Rayleigh
cs	Czech Rayleighův rozptyl
da	Danish Rayleigh-spredning
de	German Rayleigh-Streuung
el	Greek Μοριακή σκέδαση
en	English Rayleigh scattering
eo	Esperanto Disĵeto de Rayleigh
es	Spanish Dispersión de Rayleigh
et	Estonian Rayleigh' hajumine
eu	Basque Rayleighen sakabanaketa
fa	Persian پراکنش ریلی
fr	French Diffusion Rayleigh
he	Hebrew פיזור ריילי
hi	Hindi रैले प्रकीर्णन
hr	Croatian Rayleighovo raspršenje
hu	Hungarian Rayleigh-szórás
id	Indonesian Hamburan Rayleigh
it	Italian Scattering di Rayleigh
ja	Japanese レイリー散乱
ko	Korean 레일리 산란
lt	Lithuanian Reilėjaus sklaida
ms	Malay Serakan Rayleigh
nl	Dutch Rayleighverstrooiing
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Rayleighspreiing
no	Norwegian Rayleigh-spredning
pl	Polish Rozpraszanie Rayleigha
pt	Portuguese Dispersão de Rayleigh
ro	Romanian Împrăștiere Rayleigh
ru	Russian Рэлеевское рассеяние
sh	Serbo-Croatian Rayleighovo raspršenje
simple	Simple English Rayleigh scattering
sk	Slovak Rayleighov rozptyl
sl	Slovenian Rayleighovo sipanje
sr	Serbian Rejlijevo rasejanje
sv	Swedish Rayleigh-spridning
th	Thai การกระเจิงแบบเรย์ลี
tr	Turkish Rayleigh saçılması
uk	Ukrainian Релеївське розсіювання
uz	Uzbek Reley sochilish qonuni
vi	Vietnamese Tán xạ Rayleigh
zh	Chinese 瑞利散射

Best Rank

French: #12223 11.2008

Global: #14364 05.2014

Best Rank

French: #2626 01.2004

Global: #569 11.2001

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