Methylphenidate

Quality:

Methylphenidate - central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine and piperidine classes that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Article “Methylphenidate” in English Wikipedia has 97.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 331 references and 31 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4186^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6143^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2932^nd most popular in all topics.

The 6457^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5914^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 3348^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3140^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3844^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Methylphenidate” was edited by 15 authors in English Wikipedia (3348^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3844^th place).

Since the creation of article “Methylphenidate”, its content was written by 1022 registered users of English Wikipedia (6143^rd place) and edited by 3139 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6457^th place).

The article is cited 2367 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7028 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2586 in March 2022
• Global: #3019 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2223 in November 2009
• Global: #1783 in January 2025

There are 39 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) Methylphenidate		97.6951
2	Greek (el) Μεθυλφαινιδάτη		88.8889
3	Portuguese (pt) Metilfenidato		88.6615
4	Catalan (ca) Metilfenidat		85.5755
5	German (de) Methylphenidat		85.1778
6	Indonesian (id) Metilfenidat		83.1872
7	Spanish (es) Metilfenidato		72.4886
8	Chinese (zh) 哌甲酯		71.4482
9	Hebrew (he) מתילפנידאט		68.0515
10	Armenian (hy) Մեթիլֆենիդատ		64.3758

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Methylphenidate		22 245 649
2	German (de) Methylphenidat		8 467 309
3	Spanish (es) Metilfenidato		4 294 614
4	Japanese (ja) メチルフェニデート		2 611 284
5	French (fr) Méthylphénidate		2 305 077
6	Portuguese (pt) Metilfenidato		2 238 714
7	Russian (ru) Метилфенидат		1 826 433
8	Dutch (nl) Methylfenidaat		1 731 198
9	Italian (it) Metilfenidato		1 303 714
10	Persian (fa) متیل‌فنیدات		1 164 878

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) Methylphenidate		93 860
2	German (de) Methylphenidat		26 155
3	French (fr) Méthylphénidate		14 260
4	Japanese (ja) メチルフェニデート		14 147
5	Spanish (es) Metilfenidato		13 470
6	Portuguese (pt) Metilfenidato		11 152
7	Russian (ru) Метилфенидат		9 879
8	Chinese (zh) 哌甲酯		7 497
9	Polish (pl) Metylofenidat		7 476
10	Turkish (tr) Metilfenidat		5 598

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Methylphenidate		1 022
2	German (de) Methylphenidat		435
3	French (fr) Méthylphénidate		226
4	Hebrew (he) מתילפנידאט		204
5	Dutch (nl) Methylfenidaat		160
6	Italian (it) Metilfenidato		118
7	Spanish (es) Metilfenidato		116
8	Japanese (ja) メチルフェニデート		84
9	Chinese (zh) 哌甲酯		76
10	Russian (ru) Метилфенидат		74

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) Methylphenidate		15
2	Spanish (es) Metilfenidato		2
3	Hebrew (he) מתילפנידאט		2
4	Indonesian (id) Metilfenidat		2
5	Japanese (ja) メチルフェニデート		2
6	Polish (pl) Metylofenidat		2
7	Chinese (zh) 哌甲酯		2
8	Catalan (ca) Metilfenidat		1
9	Czech (cs) Methylfenidát		1
10	Finnish (fi) Metyylifenidaatti		1

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

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