ALS

Quality:

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - rare neurodegenerative disease with amyotrophy and progressive paralysis. Article “ALS” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 342 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 714^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4448^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 602^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4516^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1152^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1304^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5303^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “ALS” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 28 authors in all languages (5303^rd place).

Since the creation of article “ALS”, its content was written by 1190 registered users of English Wikipedia (4448^th place) and edited by 3772 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4516^th place).

The article is cited 3008 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9915 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28 in August 2014
• Global: #29 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10 in August 2014
• Global: #6 in August 2014

There are 50 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, 2026 (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) ALS		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Бічний аміотрофічний склероз		100
3	Hindi (hi) पेशीशोषी पार्श्व काठिन्य (एमियोट्रॉफ़िक लैटरल स्कलिरॉसिस)		81.5534
4	Chinese (zh) 肌萎缩侧索硬化		78.531
5	Basque (eu) Alboko esklerosi amiotrofiko		72.5641
6	Italian (it) Sclerosi laterale amiotrofica		71.7039
7	German (de) Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose		70.6684
8	French (fr) Sclérose latérale amyotrophique		68.1845
9	Arabic (ar) تصلب جانبي ضموري		66.5608
10	Armenian (hy) Կողմնային ամիոտրոֆիկ սկլերոզ		61.2432

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALS		52 835 380
2	German (de) Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose		13 161 810
3	Spanish (es) Esclerosis lateral amiotrófica		9 632 328
4	French (fr) Sclérose latérale amyotrophique		7 932 810
5	Japanese (ja) 筋萎縮性側索硬化症		6 665 269
6	Russian (ru) Боковой амиотрофический склероз		6 541 272
7	Italian (it) Sclerosi laterale amiotrofica		4 708 384
8	Portuguese (pt) Esclerose lateral amiotrófica		2 746 014
9	Chinese (zh) 肌萎缩侧索硬化		2 347 301
10	Polish (pl) Stwardnienie zanikowe boczne		2 254 226

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) ALS		224 663
2	French (fr) Sclérose latérale amyotrophique		24 748
3	German (de) Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose		20 647
4	Spanish (es) Esclerosis lateral amiotrófica		18 349
5	Russian (ru) Боковой амиотрофический склероз		16 464
6	Japanese (ja) 筋萎縮性側索硬化症		8 613
7	Chinese (zh) 肌萎缩侧索硬化		6 215
8	Italian (it) Sclerosi laterale amiotrofica		5 427
9	Polish (pl) Stwardnienie zanikowe boczne		5 042
10	Czech (cs) Amyotrofická laterální skleróza		3 840

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ALS		1 190
2	German (de) Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose		376
3	French (fr) Sclérose latérale amyotrophique		253
4	Italian (it) Sclerosi laterale amiotrofica		210
5	Dutch (nl) Amyotrofe laterale sclerose		185
6	Spanish (es) Esclerosis lateral amiotrófica		176
7	Japanese (ja) 筋萎縮性側索硬化症		149
8	Hebrew (he) טרשת אמיוטרופית צידית		120
9	Russian (ru) Боковой амиотрофический склероз		109
10	Chinese (zh) 肌萎缩侧索硬化		87

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) ALS		3
2	French (fr) Sclérose latérale amyotrophique		3
3	Basque (eu) Alboko esklerosi amiotrofiko		2
4	Hebrew (he) טרשת אמיוטרופית צידית		2
5	Hungarian (hu) Amiotrófiás laterálszklerózis		2
6	Italian (it) Sclerosi laterale amiotrofica		2
7	Japanese (ja) 筋萎縮性側索硬化症		2
8	Serbian (sr) Amiotrofična lateralna skleroza		2
9	Arabic (ar) تصلب جانبي ضموري		1
10	Czech (cs) Amyotrofická laterální skleróza		1

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

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