Longshore drift

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Longshore drift

Quality:

Longshore drift - geological process by which sediments move along a beach shore. Article “Longshore drift” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Longshore drift”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1433 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #475 in February 2015
  • Global: #14040 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #6227 in June 2015
  • Global: #95040 in November 2008

There are 14 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
1Turkish (tr)
Kıyı boyu sürüklenme
67.175
2English (en)
Longshore drift
64.5907
3Malay (ms)
Hanyutan susur pesisir
37.9464
4Chinese (zh)
沿岸流
34.9833
5Persian (fa)
رانش کرانه‌ای
34.1013
6Indonesian (id)
Arus sejajar pantai
21.1724
7Dutch (nl)
Brandingsstroom
18.9159
8Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
15.2051
9Portuguese (pt)
Deriva litorânea
15.0915
10Japanese (ja)
漂砂
15.0471
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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 "Longshore drift" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Longshore drift
1 548 741
2Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
65 056
3Japanese (ja)
漂砂
39 078
4Chinese (zh)
沿岸流
31 957
5French (fr)
Dérive littorale
27 918
6German (de)
Strandversetzung
20 873
7Simple English (simple)
Longshore drift
15 305
8Portuguese (pt)
Deriva litorânea
8 662
9Turkish (tr)
Kıyı boyu sürüklenme
5 261
10Malay (ms)
Hanyutan susur pesisir
4 002
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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 "Longshore drift" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Longshore drift
4 175
2Simple English (simple)
Longshore drift
315
3Chinese (zh)
沿岸流
185
4Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
125
5Japanese (ja)
漂砂
104
6French (fr)
Dérive littorale
98
7Indonesian (id)
Arus sejajar pantai
70
8German (de)
Strandversetzung
55
9Portuguese (pt)
Deriva litorânea
43
10Dutch (nl)
Brandingsstroom
39
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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 "Longshore drift" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Longshore drift
266
2Simple English (simple)
Longshore drift
17
3German (de)
Strandversetzung
15
4Chinese (zh)
沿岸流
12
5French (fr)
Dérive littorale
11
6Turkish (tr)
Kıyı boyu sürüklenme
11
7Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
10
8Portuguese (pt)
Deriva litorânea
9
9Japanese (ja)
漂砂
8
10Dutch (nl)
Brandingsstroom
8
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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 "Longshore drift" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Strandversetzung
0
2English (en)
Longshore drift
0
3Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
0
4Persian (fa)
رانش کرانه‌ای
0
5French (fr)
Dérive littorale
0
6Indonesian (id)
Arus sejajar pantai
0
7Japanese (ja)
漂砂
0
8Kazakh (kk)
Жағаның дамуы
0
9Malay (ms)
Hanyutan susur pesisir
0
10Dutch (nl)
Brandingsstroom
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 "Longshore drift" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Longshore drift
625
2Persian (fa)
رانش کرانه‌ای
293
3French (fr)
Dérive littorale
146
4Chinese (zh)
沿岸流
119
5Turkish (tr)
Kıyı boyu sürüklenme
75
6Indonesian (id)
Arus sejajar pantai
45
7Malay (ms)
Hanyutan susur pesisir
40
8Japanese (ja)
漂砂
32
9Spanish (es)
Deriva litoral
20
10Dutch (nl)
Brandingsstroom
19
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Strandversetzung
enEnglish
Longshore drift
esSpanish
Deriva litoral
faPersian
رانش کرانه‌ای
frFrench
Dérive littorale
idIndonesian
Arus sejajar pantai
jaJapanese
漂砂
kkKazakh
Жағаның дамуы
msMalay
Hanyutan susur pesisir
nlDutch
Brandingsstroom
ptPortuguese
Deriva litorânea
simpleSimple English
Longshore drift
trTurkish
Kıyı boyu sürüklenme
zhChinese
沿岸流

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6227
06.2015
Global:
#95040
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#475
02.2015
Global:
#14040
08.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Longshore drift from Wikipedia articles about Groyne, Spit, Rip current, Undertow and Tetrapod. Whereas reading the article about Longshore drift people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Surf zone, Shingle beach, Groyne, Swash and Sand.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 漂砂

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