Gateway drug effect

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Gateway drug effect

Quality:

Gateway drug theory - substance-related disorder. Article “Gateway drug effect” in English Wikipedia has 60.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 15 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 “Gateway drug effect”, its content was written by 219 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 481 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 487 times in English Wikipedia and cited 728 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #12816 in February 2021
  • Global: #11264 in November 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #61288 in November 2014
  • Global: #97299 in November 2008

There are 12 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)
Gateway drug effect
60.0615
2German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
52.7403
3Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
35.0635
4Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
28.3
5Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
26.6574
6Ukrainian (uk)
Теорія вхідних наркотиків
26.4441
7Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
25.3396
8Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
21.7611
9Serbian (sr)
Теорија гејтвеј дрога
18.4508
10Swedish (sv)
Inkörsportsteorin
17.1693
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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 "Gateway drug effect" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Gateway drug effect
1 367 863
2Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
214 280
3German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
126 793
4Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
89 342
5Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
75 287
6Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
30 662
7Swedish (sv)
Inkörsportsteorin
22 674
8Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
19 226
9Serbian (sr)
Теорија гејтвеј дрога
3 311
10Simple English (simple)
Gateway drug theory
2 374
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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 "Gateway drug effect" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Gateway drug effect
2 949
2Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
1 081
3Simple English (simple)
Gateway drug theory
333
4German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
216
5Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
208
6Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
198
7Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
165
8Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
43
9Swedish (sv)
Inkörsportsteorin
33
10Arabic (ar)
تأثير المخدرات المؤدي إلى التعاطي
16
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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 "Gateway drug effect" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Gateway drug effect
219
2German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
109
3Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
40
4Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
39
5Swedish (sv)
Inkörsportsteorin
15
6Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
14
7Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
11
8Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
8
9Simple English (simple)
Gateway drug theory
7
10Ukrainian (uk)
Теорія вхідних наркотиків
7
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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 "Gateway drug effect" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
1
2Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
1
3Arabic (ar)
تأثير المخدرات المؤدي إلى التعاطي
0
4English (en)
Gateway drug effect
0
5Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
0
6Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
0
7Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
0
8Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
0
9Simple English (simple)
Gateway drug theory
0
10Serbian (sr)
Теорија гејтвеј дрога
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 "Gateway drug effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Gateway drug effect
487
2Persian (fa)
نظریه دروازه ورود
85
3Arabic (ar)
تأثير المخدرات المؤدي إلى التعاطي
83
4Japanese (ja)
ゲートウェイドラッグ
20
5German (de)
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
19
6Italian (it)
Teoria del passaggio
11
7Swedish (sv)
Inkörsportsteorin
7
8Serbian (sr)
Теорија гејтвеј дрога
5
9Finnish (fi)
Porttiteoria
4
10Russian (ru)
Теория стартовых наркотиков
4
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تأثير المخدرات المؤدي إلى التعاطي
deGerman
Einstiegsdrogen-Hypothese
enEnglish
Gateway drug effect
faPersian
نظریه دروازه ورود
fiFinnish
Porttiteoria
itItalian
Teoria del passaggio
jaJapanese
ゲートウェイドラッグ
ruRussian
Теория стартовых наркотиков
simpleSimple English
Gateway drug theory
srSerbian
Теорија гејтвеј дрога
svSwedish
Inkörsportsteorin
ukUkrainian
Теорія вхідних наркотиків

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#61288
11.2014
Global:
#97299
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#12816
02.2021
Global:
#11264
11.2019

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Gateway drug theory from Wikipedia articles about Kamala Harris, Lean, Cannabis, Antonio Tajani and Easy Rider. Whereas reading the article about Gateway drug theory people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Tobacco and other drugs, Robert DuPont, Psychoactive drug and Drug policy.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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