Critical period

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Critical period

Quality:

Critical period - maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain environmental stimuli. Article “Critical period” in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 147 references and 21 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.

Since the creation of article “Critical period”, its content was written by 164 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 241 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 107 times in English Wikipedia and cited 267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2462 in October 2014
  • Global: #13570 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #54222 in October 2013
  • Global: #76791 in November 2015

There are 10 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
1English (en)
Critical period
83.3936
2French (fr)
Période critique
31.3526
3Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
27.8252
4Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
24.8994
5Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
24.0329
6Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
22.8534
7Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
16.389
8Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
13.3108
9Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
10.6531
10Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
1.9551
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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 "Critical period" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Critical period
1 885 098
2Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
354 383
3French (fr)
Période critique
48 159
4Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
33 899
5Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
24 858
6Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
13 647
7Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
12 301
8Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
2 741
9Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
1 540
10Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
61
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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 "Critical period" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Critical period
2 640
2Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
196
3French (fr)
Période critique
110
4Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
37
5Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
36
6Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
34
7Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
21
8Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
20
9Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
19
10Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
13
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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 "Critical period" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Critical period
164
2Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
26
3French (fr)
Période critique
18
4Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
7
5Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
7
6Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
7
7Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
4
8Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
4
9Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
3
10Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
1
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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 "Critical period" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
1
2Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
0
3Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
0
4English (en)
Critical period
0
5Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
0
6Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
0
7Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
0
8French (fr)
Période critique
0
9Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
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 "Critical period" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Critical period
107
2French (fr)
Période critique
101
3Hebrew (he)
תקופה קריטית
22
4Spanish (es)
Periodo crítico
14
5Arabic (ar)
فترة حرجة
11
6Ukrainian (uk)
Критичний період
5
7Czech (cs)
Kritická perioda
3
8Persian (fa)
دوره بحرانی
3
9Turkish (tr)
Kritik dönem
1
10Finnish (fi)
Herkkyyskausi
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
فترة حرجة
csCzech
Kritická perioda
enEnglish
Critical period
esSpanish
Periodo crítico
faPersian
دوره بحرانی
fiFinnish
Herkkyyskausi
frFrench
Période critique
heHebrew
תקופה קריטית
trTurkish
Kritik dönem
ukUkrainian
Критичний період

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#54222
10.2013
Global:
#76791
11.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2462
10.2014
Global:
#13570
10.2014

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Critical period from Wikipedia articles about Imprinting, Critical period hypothesis, Malleability of intelligence, Second language and Telegraphic speech. Whereas reading the article about Critical period people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Critical period hypothesis, Prefrontal synthesis, Victor of Aveyron, Genie and Vestibular system.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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