Lemon balm

Quality:

Melissa officinalis - species of plant. This taxon is the 376^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 916^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Lemon balm” in English Wikipedia has 59.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 44 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.12 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 916^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 376^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Lemon balm” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lemon balm”, its content was written by 260 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1523 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Melissa officinalis is on the 916^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 376^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 467 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3924 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #485 in April 2001
• Global: #486 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21534 in May 2023
• Global: #6508 in May 2020

There are 47 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	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		71.3398
2	Greek (el) Μελισσόχορτο		63.6537
3	English (en) Lemon balm		59.3341
4	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		58.2099
5	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		54.6965
6	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		44.6324
7	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		43.0894
8	Hebrew (he) מליסה רפואית		42.8474
9	Indonesian (id) Daun madu limau		42.148
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tía tô đất		38.4105

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lemon balm		4 547 638
2	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		2 477 531
3	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		2 011 829
4	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		1 880 567
5	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		1 560 325
6	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		1 364 264
7	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		1 118 874
8	Polish (pl) Melisa lekarska		1 028 163
9	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		758 882
10	Czech (cs) Meduňka lékařská		514 843

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lemon balm		23 066
2	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		9 968
3	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		6 684
4	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		5 925
5	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		4 483
6	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		3 932
7	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		3 769
8	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		3 148
9	Czech (cs) Meduňka lékařská		2 156
10	Dutch (nl) Citroenmelisse		1 949

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lemon balm		260
2	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		184
3	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		114
4	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		96
5	Dutch (nl) Citroenmelisse		71
6	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		63
7	Hungarian (hu) Citromfű		60
8	Polish (pl) Melisa lekarska		57
9	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		50
10	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		50

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		5
2	English (en) Lemon balm		3
3	Arabic (ar) ترنجان مخزني		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Dərman ballınanəsi		1
5	Czech (cs) Meduňka lékařská		1
6	Greek (el) Μελισσόχορτο		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tía tô đất		1
8	Belarusian (be) Меліса лекавая		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Маточина		0
10	Catalan (ca) Melissa		0

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

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