Mass psychogenic illness

Quality:

Sociogenic illness - spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no viral or bacterial agent responsible for contagion. Article “Mass psychogenic illness” in English Wikipedia has 73.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 99 references and 17 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.

In June 2025 the article “Mass psychogenic illness” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mass psychogenic illness”, its content was written by 230 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 797 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2448 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1452 in January 2022
• Global: #5427 in January 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4493 in January 2022
• Global: #11978 in January 2022

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Mass psychogenic illness		73.2164
2	Portuguese (pt) Doença psicogênica em massa		49.1926
3	Persian (fa) بدحالی روان‌زاد جمعی		43.9616
4	Chinese (zh) 集體歇斯底里		30.4412
5	Dutch (nl) Massavorming		29.8537
6	Arabic (ar) مرض جماعي نفسي المنشأ		25.5533
7	Norwegian (no) Massehysteri		23.2449
8	French (fr) Psychose collective		21.7897
9	Estonian (et) Massipsühhoos		20.1622
10	Spanish (es) Enfermedad psicogénica de masas		16.8048

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mass psychogenic illness		5 361 842
2	French (fr) Psychose collective		190 714
3	Russian (ru) Психические эпидемии		136 211
4	Chinese (zh) 集體歇斯底里		121 021
5	Swedish (sv) Masshysteri		109 920
6	Spanish (es) Enfermedad psicogénica de masas		38 764
7	Dutch (nl) Massavorming		15 351
8	Persian (fa) بدحالی روان‌زاد جمعی		10 587
9	Portuguese (pt) Doença psicogênica em massa		7 253
10	Arabic (ar) مرض جماعي نفسي المنشأ		5 631

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) Mass psychogenic illness		23 178
2	French (fr) Psychose collective		861
3	Chinese (zh) 集體歇斯底里		825
4	Russian (ru) Психические эпидемии		537
5	Dutch (nl) Massavorming		211
6	Spanish (es) Enfermedad psicogénica de masas		187
7	Swedish (sv) Masshysteri		158
8	Portuguese (pt) Doença psicogênica em massa		130
9	Persian (fa) بدحالی روان‌زاد جمعی		75
10	Korean (ko) 집단 심인성 질환		56

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mass psychogenic illness		230
2	French (fr) Psychose collective		67
3	Russian (ru) Психические эпидемии		36
4	Dutch (nl) Massavorming		19
5	Swedish (sv) Masshysteri		17
6	Chinese (zh) 集體歇斯底里		13
7	Spanish (es) Enfermedad psicogénica de masas		8
8	Estonian (et) Massipsühhoos		7
9	Portuguese (pt) Doença psicogênica em massa		7
10	Persian (fa) بدحالی روان‌زاد جمعی		3

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) Mass psychogenic illness		3
2	Arabic (ar) مرض جماعي نفسي المنشأ		0
3	Spanish (es) Enfermedad psicogénica de masas		0
4	Estonian (et) Massipsühhoos		0
5	Persian (fa) بدحالی روان‌زاد جمعی		0
6	French (fr) Psychose collective		0
7	Korean (ko) 집단 심인성 질환		0
8	Dutch (nl) Massavorming		0
9	Norwegian (no) Massehysteri		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Doença psicogênica em massa		0

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

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