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Drug discovery

Quality:

Drug discovery - the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. Article “Drug discovery” in English Wikipedia has 82.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 101 references and 16 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Drug discovery” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Drug discovery”, its content was written by 184 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 350 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 649 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1455 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9544 in April 2004
  • Global: #29277 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #78417 in March 2015
  • Global: #108577 in March 2015

There are 13 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
1Chinese (zh)
药物发现
91.1943
2English (en)
Drug discovery
82.0839
3Czech (cs)
Objevování léčiv
62.8851
4German (de)
Pharmaforschung
55.2108
5Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
31.4008
6Japanese (ja)
創薬
31.1275
7Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
20.2489
8Romanian (ro)
Descoperirea medicamentelor
14.8076
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Otkrivanje leka
13.1444
10Serbian (sr)
Otkrivanje lekova
11.4062
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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 discovery" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Drug discovery
1 760 834
2German (de)
Pharmaforschung
359 704
3Japanese (ja)
創薬
221 342
4Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
95 795
5Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
64 345
6Chinese (zh)
药物发现
10 010
7Hindi (hi)
दवा की खोज
7 497
8Persian (fa)
داروپژوهی
4 768
9Serbian (sr)
Otkrivanje lekova
4 715
10Romanian (ro)
Descoperirea medicamentelor
3 072
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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 discovery" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Drug discovery
4 650
2Japanese (ja)
創薬
273
3Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
233
4German (de)
Pharmaforschung
205
5Chinese (zh)
药物发现
194
6Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
112
7Romanian (ro)
Descoperirea medicamentelor
66
8Czech (cs)
Objevování léčiv
30
9Persian (fa)
داروپژوهی
28
10Korean (ko)
약물 발견
19
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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 discovery" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Drug discovery
184
2German (de)
Pharmaforschung
97
3Japanese (ja)
創薬
19
4Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
15
5Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
9
6Czech (cs)
Objevování léčiv
6
7Chinese (zh)
药物发现
5
8Persian (fa)
داروپژوهی
4
9Romanian (ro)
Descoperirea medicamentelor
3
10Serbian (sr)
Otkrivanje lekova
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 discovery" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Drug discovery
2
2Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
0
3Czech (cs)
Objevování léčiv
0
4German (de)
Pharmaforschung
0
5Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
0
6Persian (fa)
داروپژوهی
0
7Hindi (hi)
दवा की खोज
0
8Japanese (ja)
創薬
0
9Korean (ko)
약물 발견
0
10Romanian (ro)
Descoperirea medicamentelor
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 discovery" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Drug discovery
649
2German (de)
Pharmaforschung
192
3Japanese (ja)
創薬
167
4Arabic (ar)
اكتشاف الدواء
151
5Persian (fa)
داروپژوهی
82
6Chinese (zh)
药物发现
67
7Spanish (es)
Descubrimiento de fármacos
46
8Serbian (sr)
Otkrivanje lekova
40
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Otkrivanje leka
31
10Korean (ko)
약물 발견
19
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اكتشاف الدواء
csCzech
Objevování léčiv
deGerman
Pharmaforschung
enEnglish
Drug discovery
esSpanish
Descubrimiento de fármacos
faPersian
داروپژوهی
hiHindi
दवा की खोज
jaJapanese
創薬
koKorean
약물 발견
roRomanian
Descoperirea medicamentelor
shSerbo-Croatian
Otkrivanje leka
srSerbian
Otkrivanje lekova
zhChinese
药物发现

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#78417
03.2015
Global:
#108577
03.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9544
04.2004
Global:
#29277
04.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Drug discovery from Wikipedia articles about Medication, Drug development, Medicinal chemistry, Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and Isomorphic Labs. Whereas reading the article about Drug discovery people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Serendipity, Medicinal chemistry, High-throughput screening, Reverse pharmacology and Pharmacology.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 創薬

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