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Drug development

Quality:

Drug development - process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified. Article "Drug development" in English Wikipedia has 56.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 55 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Drug development", its content was written by 171 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 257 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 703 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1152 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #36735 in February 2013
  • Global: #53408 in January 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #75648 in November 2014
  • Global: #122333 in November 2008

There are 15 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
1Estonian (et)
Ravimiarendus
94.3295
2English (en)
Drug development
56.6263
3Russian (ru)
Разработка лекарств
44.5718
4Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
34.1043
5Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
31.6155
6Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Registracija lekova
31.0203
7Korean (ko)
의약품 개발
26.9424
8Finnish (fi)
Lääkekehitys
26.0712
9Vietnamese (vi)
Phát triển thuốc
22.9887
10Serbian (sr)
Развој лекова
20.993
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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 "Drug development" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Drug development
1 685 746
2Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
146 874
3Swedish (sv)
Läkemedelsutveckling
19 588
4Dutch (nl)
Geneesmiddelonderzoek
18 543
5Serbian (sr)
Развој лекова
11 326
6Chinese (zh)
药物研发
7 444
7Arabic (ar)
تطوير العقاقير
7 160
8Russian (ru)
Разработка лекарств
6 369
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Registracija lekova
6 353
10Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
6 290
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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 "Drug development" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Drug development
3 080
2Russian (ru)
Разработка лекарств
192
3Chinese (zh)
药物研发
88
4Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
80
5Korean (ko)
의약품 개발
68
6Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
66
7Arabic (ar)
تطوير العقاقير
54
8Estonian (et)
Ravimiarendus
40
9Serbian (sr)
Развој лекова
34
10Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Registracija lekova
28
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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 "Drug development" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Drug development
171
2Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
15
3Swedish (sv)
Läkemedelsutveckling
12
4Arabic (ar)
تطوير العقاقير
11
5Serbian (sr)
Развој лекова
8
6Estonian (et)
Ravimiarendus
7
7Indonesian (id)
Pengembangan obat
7
8Dutch (nl)
Geneesmiddelonderzoek
6
9Russian (ru)
Разработка лекарств
6
10Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
3
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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 "Drug development" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Estonian (et)
Ravimiarendus
1
2Indonesian (id)
Pengembangan obat
1
3Russian (ru)
Разработка лекарств
1
4Arabic (ar)
تطوير العقاقير
0
5English (en)
Drug development
0
6Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
0
7Finnish (fi)
Lääkekehitys
0
8Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
0
9Korean (ko)
의약품 개발
0
10Dutch (nl)
Geneesmiddelonderzoek
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 "Drug development" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Drug development
703
2Arabic (ar)
تطوير العقاقير
141
3Japanese (ja)
医薬品開発
64
4Vietnamese (vi)
Phát triển thuốc
43
5Chinese (zh)
药物研发
43
6Serbian (sr)
Развој лекова
28
7Finnish (fi)
Lääkekehitys
25
8Indonesian (id)
Pengembangan obat
22
9Spanish (es)
Desarrollo de fármacos
19
10Estonian (et)
Ravimiarendus
14
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تطوير العقاقير
enEnglish
Drug development
esSpanish
Desarrollo de fármacos
etEstonian
Ravimiarendus
fiFinnish
Lääkekehitys
idIndonesian
Pengembangan obat
jaJapanese
医薬品開発
koKorean
의약품 개발
nlDutch
Geneesmiddelonderzoek
ruRussian
Разработка лекарств
shSerbo-Croatian
Registracija lekova
srSerbian
Развој лекова
svSwedish
Läkemedelsutveckling
viVietnamese
Phát triển thuốc
zhChinese
药物研发

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#75648
11.2014
Global:
#122333
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#36735
02.2013
Global:
#53408
01.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Drug development from Wikipedia articles about Medication, Pre-clinical development, Pharmaceutical industry, Phase of clinical research and CMC. Whereas reading the article about Drug development people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Drug discovery, Pre-clinical development, Drug design, Medication and Lead compound.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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