Drug resistance

Drug resistance - reduction in effectiveness of a drug such as an antimicrobial, anthelmintic or an antineoplastic in curing a disease or condition. Article “Drug resistance” in English Wikipedia has 52.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 57 references and 9 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.

In June 2026 the article “Drug resistance” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Drug resistance”, its content was written by 141 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 354 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 461 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1658 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7798 in April 2003
• Global: #12642 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #96858 in January 2015
• Global: #25186 in September 2010

There are 24 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) Drug resistance		52.3275
2	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		34.7518
3	Armenian (hy) Դեղորայքային կայունություն		33.8945
4	Russian (ru) Лекарственная резистентность		32.7316
5	Spanish (es) Farmacorresistencia		32.0722
6	Slovenian (sl) Odpornost proti zdravilu		30.9082
7	French (fr) Pharmacorésistance		30.739
8	Chinese (zh) 抗藥性		30.1775
9	Catalan (ca) Farmacoresistència		22.8486
10	Norwegian (no) Resistens		22.6294

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Drug resistance" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		1 101 103
2	English (en) Drug resistance		967 982
3	Chinese (zh) 抗藥性		275 152
4	Swedish (sv) Resistens		125 718
5	Thai (th) การดื้อยา		63 086
6	Italian (it) Farmacoresistenza		49 312
7	Spanish (es) Farmacorresistencia		48 478
8	Polish (pl) Lekooporność		34 556
9	Persian (fa) مقاومت دارویی		32 822
10	Norwegian (no) Resistens		25 894

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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 "Drug resistance" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drug resistance		1 074
2	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		578
3	Chinese (zh) 抗藥性		564
4	Russian (ru) Лекарственная резистентность		157
5	Spanish (es) Farmacorresistencia		134
6	Italian (it) Farmacoresistenza		80
7	Persian (fa) مقاومت دارویی		77
8	Swedish (sv) Resistens		62
9	French (fr) Pharmacorésistance		41
10	Polish (pl) Lekooporność		32

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drug resistance		141
2	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		59
3	Italian (it) Farmacoresistenza		25
4	Swedish (sv) Resistens		22
5	Chinese (zh) 抗藥性		22
6	Norwegian (no) Resistens		10
7	Spanish (es) Farmacorresistencia		9
8	Polish (pl) Lekooporność		9
9	French (fr) Pharmacorésistance		8
10	Persian (fa) مقاومت دارویی		7

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

Language versions of the article "Drug resistance" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drug resistance		2
2	Swedish (sv) Resistens		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Rezistemo		1
4	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		1
5	Arabic (ar) مقاومة الدواء		0
6	Catalan (ca) Farmacoresistència		0
7	Spanish (es) Farmacorresistencia		0
8	Estonian (et) Ravimiresistentsus		0
9	Persian (fa) مقاومت دارویی		0
10	French (fr) Pharmacorésistance		0

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

Language versions of the article "Drug resistance" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Drug resistance		461
2	Japanese (ja) 薬剤耐性		270
3	Chinese (zh) 抗藥性		231
4	Persian (fa) مقاومت دارویی		100
5	Italian (it) Farmacoresistenza		74
6	Swedish (sv) Resistens		69
7	Serbian (sr) Otpornost na lek		58
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Otpornost na lek		54
9	Korean (ko) 약물 저항성		50
10	Slovenian (sl) Odpornost proti zdravilu		37

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مقاومة الدواء
ca	Catalan Farmacoresistència
en	English Drug resistance
eo	Esperanto Rezistemo
es	Spanish Farmacorresistencia
et	Estonian Ravimiresistentsus
fa	Persian مقاومت دارویی
fr	French Pharmacorésistance
hy	Armenian Դեղորայքային կայունություն
id	Indonesian Resistansi obat
it	Italian Farmacoresistenza
ja	Japanese 薬剤耐性
ko	Korean 약물 저항성
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Resistens
no	Norwegian Resistens
pl	Polish Lekooporność
ru	Russian Лекарственная резистентность
sh	Serbo-Croatian Otpornost na lek
sl	Slovenian Odpornost proti zdravilu
sr	Serbian Otpornost na lek
sv	Swedish Resistens
th	Thai การดื้อยา
vi	Vietnamese Kháng thuốc
zh	Chinese 抗藥性

Best Rank

English: #96858 01.2015

Global: #25186 09.2010

Best Rank

English: #7798 04.2003

Global: #12642 04.2003

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