Meditations

Meditations - essay by Marcus Aurelius. This book is the 591^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 555^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Meditations” in English Wikipedia has 60.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 14 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Meditations” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Meditations”, its content was written by 240 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 714 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Meditations is on the 555^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 591^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 247 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1113 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26573 in October 2017
• Global: #10998 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11953 in December 2016
• Global: #15828 in December 2024

There are 34 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	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		93.3333
2	English (en) Meditations		60.9262
3	Hebrew (he) רעיונות		49.4599
4	Portuguese (pt) Meditações		44.9357
5	Latin (la) Meditationes (Marcus Aurelius)		43.9
6	Polish (pl) Rozmyślania (Marek Aureliusz)		40.5711
7	Greek (el) Τα εις εαυτόν		36.1143
8	French (fr) Pensées pour moi-même		35.8837
9	Chinese (zh) 沉思录		35.7871
10	Arabic (ar) التأملات		31.9492

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Meditations" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Meditations		5 086 487
2	Spanish (es) Meditaciones		596 778
3	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		504 196
4	French (fr) Pensées pour moi-même		494 174
5	Italian (it) Colloqui con sé stesso		380 677
6	Russian (ru) К самому себе		375 089
7	Japanese (ja) 自省録		368 621
8	Chinese (zh) 沉思录		239 566
9	Portuguese (pt) Meditações		198 657
10	Polish (pl) Rozmyślania (Marek Aureliusz)		162 955

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Meditations" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Meditations		27 495
2	Spanish (es) Meditaciones		4 534
3	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		4 168
4	French (fr) Pensées pour moi-même		3 605
5	Russian (ru) К самому себе		3 173
6	Italian (it) Colloqui con sé stesso		2 321
7	Japanese (ja) 自省録		2 259
8	Portuguese (pt) Meditações		1 920
9	Chinese (zh) 沉思录		1 816
10	Polish (pl) Rozmyślania (Marek Aureliusz)		886

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

Language versions of the article "Meditations" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Meditations		240
2	Italian (it) Colloqui con sé stesso		59
3	French (fr) Pensées pour moi-même		54
4	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		42
5	Japanese (ja) 自省録		37
6	Chinese (zh) 沉思录		32
7	Dutch (nl) Ta eis heauton		31
8	Portuguese (pt) Meditações		28
9	Spanish (es) Meditaciones		24
10	Polish (pl) Rozmyślania (Marek Aureliusz)		23

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

Language versions of the article "Meditations" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Urdu (ur) میڈی ٹیشنز		2
2	Catalan (ca) Meditacions		1
3	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		1
4	English (en) Meditations		1
5	Lithuanian (lt) Sau pačiam		1
6	Dutch (nl) Ta eis heauton		1
7	Turkish (tr) Kendime Düşünceler		1
8	Arabic (ar) التأملات		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Към себе си		0
10	Greek (el) Τα εις εαυτόν		0

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

Language versions of the article "Meditations" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Meditations		247
2	Italian (it) Colloqui con sé stesso		151
3	Portuguese (pt) Meditações		90
4	Russian (ru) К самому себе		62
5	French (fr) Pensées pour moi-même		55
6	Spanish (es) Meditaciones		51
7	German (de) Selbstbetrachtungen		45
8	Japanese (ja) 自省録		40
9	Korean (ko) 명상록		40
10	Turkish (tr) Kendime Düşünceler		40

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التأملات
bg	Bulgarian Към себе си
ca	Catalan Meditacions
de	German Selbstbetrachtungen
el	Greek Τα εις εαυτόν
en	English Meditations
eo	Esperanto Pensoj al mi mem
es	Spanish Meditaciones
et	Estonian Iseendale
eu	Basque Gogoetak
fa	Persian تأملات
fi	Finnish Itselleni
fr	French Pensées pour moi-même
he	Hebrew רעיונות
id	Indonesian Meditasi (buku)
it	Italian Colloqui con sé stesso
ja	Japanese 自省録
ko	Korean 명상록
la	Latin Meditationes (Marcus Aurelius)
lt	Lithuanian Sau pačiam
nl	Dutch Ta eis heauton
pl	Polish Rozmyślania (Marek Aureliusz)
pt	Portuguese Meditações
ro	Romanian Meditații
ru	Russian К самому себе
sh	Serbo-Croatian Meditacije
sr	Serbian Медитације (књига)
ta	Tamil மெடிடேசன்ஸ்
tr	Turkish Kendime Düşünceler
uk	Ukrainian Розмисли. Наодинці з собою
ur	Urdu میڈی ٹیشنز
uz	Uzbek Oʻylar
vi	Vietnamese Suy tưởng (Marcus Aurelius)
zh	Chinese 沉思录

Best Rank

English: #11953 12.2016

Global: #15828 12.2024

Best Rank

English: #26573 10.2017

Global: #10998 01.2004

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