Alternative medicine

Quality:

Alternative medicine - form of non-scientific healing. Article “Alternative medicine” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 434 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.81 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1536^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2605^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7710^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Alternative medicine” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (7710^th place).

Since the creation of article “Alternative medicine”, its content was written by 1727 registered users of English Wikipedia (1536^th place) and edited by 4704 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2605^th place).

The article is cited 2707 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12239 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6 in December 2003
• Global: #70 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4761 in June 2013
• Global: #5011 in June 2012

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, 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	Danish (da) Alternativ behandling		97.1929
2	English (en) Alternative medicine		91.3932
3	Turkish (tr) Alternatif tıp		91.3837
4	Thai (th) การแพทย์ทางเลือก		83.7346
5	Hindi (hi) वैकल्पिक चिकित्सा		82.8571
6	German (de) Alternativmedizin		80
7	Hungarian (hu) Alternatív gyógymód		77.1302
8	Chinese (zh) 替代医学		75
9	Finnish (fi) Uskomuslääkintä		73.5268
10	Spanish (es) Medicina alternativa		73.4549

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternative medicine		13 497 789
2	Spanish (es) Medicina alternativa		3 904 275
3	German (de) Alternativmedizin		1 466 611
4	Russian (ru) Альтернативная медицина		1 194 822
5	Portuguese (pt) Medicina alternativa		1 151 415
6	French (fr) Médecine non conventionnelle		955 803
7	Japanese (ja) 代替医療		816 529
8	Polish (pl) Medycyna niekonwencjonalna		605 506
9	Arabic (ar) طب بديل		574 859
10	Italian (it) Medicina alternativa		561 516

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) Alternative medicine		16 944
2	Russian (ru) Альтернативная медицина		1 960
3	German (de) Alternativmedizin		1 667
4	Chinese (zh) 替代医学		1 388
5	Spanish (es) Medicina alternativa		1 295
6	French (fr) Médecine non conventionnelle		1 243
7	Japanese (ja) 代替医療		1 000
8	Italian (it) Medicina alternativa		679
9	Polish (pl) Medycyna niekonwencjonalna		658
10	Persian (fa) پزشکی جایگزین		603

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternative medicine		1 727
2	German (de) Alternativmedizin		318
3	French (fr) Médecine non conventionnelle		290
4	Spanish (es) Medicina alternativa		258
5	Dutch (nl) Alternatieve geneeswijze		233
6	Russian (ru) Альтернативная медицина		183
7	Italian (it) Medicina alternativa		165
8	Hebrew (he) רפואה אלטרנטיבית		150
9	Japanese (ja) 代替医療		130
10	Portuguese (pt) Medicina alternativa		96

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) Alternative medicine		3
2	Esperanto (eo) Alternativa medicino		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Alternatív gyógymód		2
4	Russian (ru) Альтернативная медицина		2
5	Serbian (sr) Алтернативна медицина		2
6	Turkish (tr) Alternatif tıp		2
7	Arabic (ar) طب بديل		1
8	Catalan (ca) Medicina alternativa		1
9	Danish (da) Alternativ behandling		1
10	German (de) Alternativmedizin		1

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

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