Neanderthal

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Neanderthal - extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. This taxon is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 16^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Neanderthal” in English Wikipedia has 96 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 281 references and 29 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2427^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 946^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 16^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1550^th most popular in all topics.

The 749^th most popular in AI.

The 19^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5168^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8744^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3225^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1761^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Neanderthal” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (8744^th place) and written by 48 authors in all languages (1761^st place).

Since the creation of article “Neanderthal”, its content was written by 1994 registered users of English Wikipedia (946^th place) and edited by 7130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (749^th place).

Neanderthal is on the 16^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1833 times in English Wikipedia and cited 14010 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #302 in May 2010
• Global: #179 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #257 in April 2014
• Global: #525 in April 2014

There are 53 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) Neandertaler		100
2	Persian (fa) نئاندرتال		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Người Neanderthal		100
4	Basque (eu) Neandertal		100
5	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		99.4695
6	English (en) Neanderthal		95.9507
7	Indonesian (id) Neanderthal		95.825
8	Dutch (nl) Neanderthaler		95.2941
9	Portuguese (pt) Homem de Neandertal		94.3214
10	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		92.9469

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Neanderthal		30 654 691
2	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		8 508 419
3	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		5 587 517
4	German (de) Neandertaler		5 343 534
5	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		4 440 785
6	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		3 568 885
7	Portuguese (pt) Homem de Neandertal		2 590 299
8	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		2 439 857
9	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		1 853 548
10	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		1 424 115

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) Neanderthal		92 668
2	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		15 181
3	German (de) Neandertaler		14 424
4	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		13 673
5	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		13 267
6	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		10 349
7	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		6 498
8	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		5 782
9	Persian (fa) نئاندرتال		5 182
10	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		4 675

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Neanderthal		1 994
2	German (de) Neandertaler		657
3	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		506
4	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		398
5	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		332
6	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		327
7	Dutch (nl) Neanderthaler		319
8	Hebrew (he) האדם הניאנדרטלי		180
9	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		172
10	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		158

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) Neanderthal		9
2	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		6
3	Portuguese (pt) Homem de Neandertal		4
4	Arabic (ar) نياندرتال		3
5	German (de) Neandertaler		3
6	Hebrew (he) האדם הניאנדרטלי		3
7	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		3
8	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		2
9	Dutch (nl) Neanderthaler		2
10	Catalan (ca) Home de Neandertal		1

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

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