Major depressive disorder

Quality:

Major depressive disorder - mood disorder characterized by persistent low mood, motivation, and self-esteem, accompanied by loss of interest or pleasure and impairment of functioning. Article “Major depressive disorder” in English Wikipedia has 92.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 451 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.86 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2536^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2268^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1031^st most popular in all topics.

The 943^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7857^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2691^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Major depressive disorder” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 39 authors in all languages (2691^st place).

Since the creation of article “Major depressive disorder”, its content was written by 1521 registered users of English Wikipedia (2268^th place) and edited by 6556 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (943^rd place).

The article is cited 4183 times in English Wikipedia (6367^th place) and cited 32240 times in all languages (5262^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #108 in June 2004
• Global: #134 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #793 in June 2009
• Global: #363 in November 2009

There are 50 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	Turkish (tr) Majör depresif bozukluk		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Trầm cảm		98.1818
3	Portuguese (pt) Transtorno depressivo maior		93.9305
4	Slovenian (sl) Velika depresivna motnja		93.3333
5	English (en) Major depressive disorder		92.3973
6	Polish (pl) Zaburzenia depresyjne		91.6713
7	Thai (th) โรคซึมเศร้า		91.2
8	Italian (it) Disturbo depressivo		91.054
9	Romanian (ro) Tulburare depresivă majoră		90.6667
10	Norwegian (no) Depresjon		90.5882

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Major depressive disorder		29 948 930
2	German (de) Depression		14 263 609
3	Japanese (ja) うつ病		10 863 075
4	Polish (pl) Zaburzenia depresyjne		4 828 197
5	French (fr) Dépression (psychiatrie)		4 483 762
6	Italian (it) Disturbo depressivo		4 445 801
7	Portuguese (pt) Transtorno depressivo maior		3 846 469
8	Russian (ru) Большое депрессивное расстройство		2 353 370
9	Dutch (nl) Depressie (klinisch)		2 150 977
10	Chinese (zh) 重性抑郁障碍		1 684 760

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) Major depressive disorder		52 412
2	German (de) Depression		10 656
3	Russian (ru) Большое депрессивное расстройство		7 428
4	Japanese (ja) うつ病		6 679
5	Polish (pl) Zaburzenia depresyjne		5 895
6	Italian (it) Disturbo depressivo		5 349
7	French (fr) Dépression (psychiatrie)		5 347
8	Chinese (zh) 重性抑郁障碍		4 766
9	Persian (fa) اختلال افسردگی عمده		3 085
10	Portuguese (pt) Transtorno depressivo maior		2 050

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Major depressive disorder		1 521
2	German (de) Depression		922
3	French (fr) Dépression (psychiatrie)		447
4	Japanese (ja) うつ病		314
5	Italian (it) Disturbo depressivo		307
6	Hebrew (he) דיכאון קליני		260
7	Dutch (nl) Depressie (klinisch)		212
8	Polish (pl) Zaburzenia depresyjne		207
9	Finnish (fi) Masennus		200
10	Portuguese (pt) Transtorno depressivo maior		169

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	English (en) Major depressive disorder		6
2	Vietnamese (vi) Trầm cảm		3
3	Min Nan (zhminnan) Iu-ut-chèng		3
4	Arabic (ar) اضطراب اكتئابي		2
5	Spanish (es) Trastorno depresivo mayor		2
6	French (fr) Dépression (psychiatrie)		2
7	Hebrew (he) דיכאון קליני		2
8	Malay (ms) Kecelaruan episod kemurungan major		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Depressiya		1
10	Catalan (ca) Depressió major		1

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

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