Defensive medicine

Defensive medicine - medical decision-making practice. Article “Defensive medicine” in English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Defensive medicine”, its content was written by 39 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 126 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in English Wikipedia and cited 85 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #75974 in October 2013
• Global: #126139 in December 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #302502 in September 2009
• Global: #281468 in February 2008

There are 8 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	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		31.8576
2	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		30.6814
3	English (en) Defensive medicine		29.157
4	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		14.9345
5	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		12.7885
6	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		10.8139
7	Korean (ko) 방어진료		0.3477
8	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		0.1156

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Defensive medicine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defensive medicine		208 762
2	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		116 406
3	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		53 936
4	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		24 374
5	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		19 225
6	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		4 309
7	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		1 409
8	Korean (ko) 방어진료		517

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Defensive medicine" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defensive medicine		781
2	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		199
3	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		152
4	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		115
5	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		113
6	Korean (ko) 방어진료		17
7	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		13
8	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		11

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Defensive medicine" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		42
2	English (en) Defensive medicine		39
3	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		21
4	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		9
5	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		8
6	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		6
7	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		1
8	Korean (ko) 방어진료		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Defensive medicine" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		0
2	English (en) Defensive medicine		0
3	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		0
4	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		0
5	Korean (ko) 방어진료		0
6	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		0
7	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		0
8	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Defensive medicine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defensive medicine		41
2	Japanese (ja) 防衛医療		24
3	Italian (it) Medicina difensiva		8
4	Chinese (zh) 防禦性醫療		5
5	Korean (ko) 방어진료		3
6	Russian (ru) Оборонительная медицина		2
7	Arabic (ar) الطب الدفاعي		1
8	Romanian (ro) Medicină defensivă		1

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الطب الدفاعي
en	English Defensive medicine
it	Italian Medicina difensiva
ja	Japanese 防衛医療
ko	Korean 방어진료
ro	Romanian Medicină defensivă
ru	Russian Оборонительная медицина
zh	Chinese 防禦性醫療

Best Rank

English: #302502 09.2009

Global: #281468 02.2008

Best Rank

English: #75974 10.2013

Global: #126139 12.2006

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jessie Buckley, Sinners (2025 film), Amy Madigan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Maya Rudolph, Sean Penn, Academy Awards.

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