Bell's palsy

Quality:

Bell's palsy - facial paralysis resulting from dysfunction in the cranial nerve VII (facial nerve). Article “Bell's palsy” in English Wikipedia has 85.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 119 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5104^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8462^nd most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Bell's palsy”, its content was written by 474 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 945 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 214 times in English Wikipedia and cited 696 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #94 in June 2001
• Global: #102 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1654 in July 2017
• Global: #2365 in July 2017

There are 34 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	Malay (ms) Palsi Bell		89.6482
2	English (en) Bell's palsy		85.0978
3	Persian (fa) فلج بل		70.5268
4	Chinese (zh) 貝爾氏麻痹症		69.5813
5	Korean (ko) 벨 마비		68.4408
6	Vietnamese (vi) Liệt thần kinh mặt		60.9042
7	Portuguese (pt) Paralisia de Bell		57.3392
8	Serbian (sr) Белова парализа		52.1704
9	Armenian (hy) Բելլի պարալիչ		50.1936
10	Italian (it) Paralisi di Bell		43.5082

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bell's palsy		21 150 459
2	Spanish (es) Parálisis facial periférica		2 956 890
3	Japanese (ja) ベル麻痺		1 178 890
4	French (fr) Paralysie faciale idiopathique		870 368
5	Italian (it) Paralisi di Bell		799 727
6	Portuguese (pt) Paralisia de Bell		668 561
7	Arabic (ar) شلل الوجه النصفي		612 307
8	Persian (fa) فلج بل		598 855
9	Russian (ru) Паралич Белла		584 920
10	Dutch (nl) Aangezichtsverlamming van Bell		526 887

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) Bell's palsy		22 900
2	Persian (fa) فلج بل		1 798
3	Chinese (zh) 貝爾氏麻痹症		1 565
4	Italian (it) Paralisi di Bell		1 558
5	French (fr) Paralysie faciale idiopathique		1 157
6	Russian (ru) Паралич Белла		999
7	Hebrew (he) שיתוק על שם בל		975
8	Portuguese (pt) Paralisia de Bell		890
9	Japanese (ja) ベル麻痺		563
10	Spanish (es) Parálisis facial periférica		342

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bell's palsy		474
2	Spanish (es) Parálisis facial periférica		60
3	Dutch (nl) Aangezichtsverlamming van Bell		45
4	Hebrew (he) שיתוק על שם בל		39
5	Italian (it) Paralisi di Bell		37
6	French (fr) Paralysie faciale idiopathique		29
7	Arabic (ar) شلل الوجه النصفي		28
8	Persian (fa) فلج بل		26
9	Chinese (zh) 貝爾氏麻痹症		20
10	Japanese (ja) ベル麻痺		19

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	Arabic (ar) شلل الوجه النصفي		1
2	Catalan (ca) Paràlisi de Bell		1
3	Basque (eu) Aurpegiko paralisi periferiko		1
4	Persian (fa) فلج بل		1
5	Italian (it) Paralisi di Bell		1
6	Korean (ko) 벨 마비		1
7	Serbian (sr) Белова парализа		1
8	Chinese (zh) 貝爾氏麻痹症		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Bell iflici		0
10	Czech (cs) Periferní obrna lícního nervu		0

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

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