Modern era

Quality:

Modern period - era from ca. 1500 until present. Article “Modern era” in English Wikipedia has 88.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 106 references and 21 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 “Modern era” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Modern era”, its content was written by 345 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1736 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2116 times in English Wikipedia and cited 18543 times in all languages (9347^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #320 in January 2003
• Global: #664 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38974 in February 2009
• Global: #6283 in April 2016

There are 43 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) Neuzeit		100
2	English (en) Modern era		88.7682
3	Arabic (ar) العصر الحديث		72.8254
4	Bulgarian (bg) Ново време		52.7296
5	Russian (ru) Новое время		41.8977
6	Hebrew (he) העת החדשה		41.4449
7	Tamil (ta) புதுமைக்கால வரலாறு		32.3979
8	Persian (fa) دوره مدرن		32.0167
9	Hungarian (hu) Újkor		31.0193
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử hiện đại		30.7418

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Новое время		3 569 212
2	German (de) Neuzeit		2 600 777
3	English (en) Modern era		2 337 198
4	Arabic (ar) العصر الحديث		866 720
5	Romanian (ro) Epoca modernă		523 176
6	Kazakh (kk) Жаңа заман		505 728
7	Dutch (nl) Nieuwe tijd		490 936
8	Czech (cs) Novověk		419 243
9	Hungarian (hu) Újkor		400 630
10	Ukrainian (uk) Нова історія		355 156

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) Modern era		13 888
2	Russian (ru) Новое время		5 309
3	German (de) Neuzeit		4 490
4	Persian (fa) دوره مدرن		1 197
5	Chinese (zh) 現代史		873
6	Czech (cs) Novověk		631
7	Hebrew (he) העת החדשה		474
8	Dutch (nl) Nieuwe tijd		452
9	Hungarian (hu) Újkor		447
10	Finnish (fi) Uusi aika		403

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Modern era		345
2	German (de) Neuzeit		294
3	Russian (ru) Новое время		154
4	Hebrew (he) העת החדשה		121
5	Dutch (nl) Nieuwe tijd		64
6	Hungarian (hu) Újkor		60
7	Serbian (sr) Нови вијек		50
8	Finnish (fi) Uusi aika		47
9	Czech (cs) Novověk		46
10	Swedish (sv) Modern historia		45

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) Modern era		3
2	Russian (ru) Новое время		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Müasir dövr		1
4	Hebrew (he) העת החדשה		1
5	Arabic (ar) العصر الحديث		0
6	Belarusian (be) Новы час		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ново време		0
8	Czech (cs) Novověk		0
9	Danish (da) Nyere tid (historisk periode)		0
10	German (de) Neuzeit		0

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

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