Metformin

Quality:

Metformin - chemical compound. Article “Metformin” in German Wikipedia has 65.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 5725^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4361^st most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 6565^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8072^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Metformin” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Metformin”, its content was written by 153 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 73 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2233 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3572 in November 2023
• Global: #8153 in July 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2496 in October 2019
• Global: #1762 in December 2015

There are 36 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) Metformin		92.0858
2	Malay (ms) Metformin		89.1429
3	Ukrainian (uk) Метформін		81.8357
4	Arabic (ar) ميتفورمين		79.0729
5	Russian (ru) Метформин		70.9706
6	Chinese (zh) 二甲双胍		68.7011
7	Armenian (hy) Մետֆորմին		66.2889
8	German (de) Metformin		65.663
9	Spanish (es) Metformina		63.188
10	Catalan (ca) Metformina		62.4087

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metformin		19 762 266
2	Spanish (es) Metformina		7 920 753
3	German (de) Metformin		3 081 688
4	Russian (ru) Метформин		2 392 917
5	Portuguese (pt) Metformina		1 777 147
6	Persian (fa) متفورمین		1 732 217
7	Italian (it) Metformina		1 113 723
8	French (fr) Metformine		1 037 714
9	Japanese (ja) メトホルミン		728 707
10	Arabic (ar) ميتفورمين		723 049

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metformin		56 870
2	Russian (ru) Метформин		18 703
3	German (de) Metformin		10 510
4	Chinese (zh) 二甲双胍		6 967
5	Spanish (es) Metformina		6 309
6	French (fr) Metformine		5 081
7	Japanese (ja) メトホルミン		4 024
8	Polish (pl) Metformina		3 251
9	Arabic (ar) ميتفورمين		2 974
10	Italian (it) Metformina		2 160

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metformin		474
2	German (de) Metformin		153
3	Italian (it) Metformina		79
4	Russian (ru) Метформин		75
5	Spanish (es) Metformina		74
6	French (fr) Metformine		65
7	Hebrew (he) מטפורמין		42
8	Dutch (nl) Metformine		41
9	Polish (pl) Metformina		37
10	Persian (fa) متفورمین		33

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metformin		6
2	Russian (ru) Метформин		3
3	German (de) Metformin		1
4	Finnish (fi) Metformiini		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Метформін		1
6	Arabic (ar) ميتفورمين		0
7	Catalan (ca) Metformina		0
8	Danish (da) Metformin		0
9	Greek (el) Μετφορμίνη		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Metformino		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information