Off-label use

Off-label use - use of pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines for an unapproved indication concerning the treatment of a particular disease or condition as designated by a regulatory agency. Article “Off-label use” in English Wikipedia has 37 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.12 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Off-label use”, its content was written by 150 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 378 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 326 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1000 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23004 in December 2003
• Global: #41592 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #92644 in April 2013
• Global: #79833 in March 2020

There are 21 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	Chinese (zh) 仿單標示外使用		47.2381
2	Indonesian (id) Penggunaan di luar label		38.6905
3	Dutch (nl) Niet-geregistreerd gebruik		37.3163
4	English (en) Off-label use		37.0378
5	Japanese (ja) 適応外使用		32.9222
6	Italian (it) Off-label		26.729
7	Slovenian (sl) Nenamenska uporaba		23.5287
8	Polish (pl) Pozarejestracyjne stosowanie leków		23.0531
9	Arabic (ar) استخدام من دون تصريح		22.5489
10	Catalan (ca) Ús en indicació no autoritzada		21.6063

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Off-label use" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Off-label use		1 500 101
2	German (de) Off-Label-Use		778 997
3	Italian (it) Off-label		261 584
4	Russian (ru) Офф-лейбл		165 713
5	Japanese (ja) 適応外使用		135 819
6	Dutch (nl) Niet-geregistreerd gebruik		63 320
7	Polish (pl) Pozarejestracyjne stosowanie leków		35 408
8	Portuguese (pt) Uso off label		34 509
9	Spanish (es) Uso fuera de indicación		33 482
10	Korean (ko) 오프라벨		25 593

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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 "Off-label use" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Off-label use		5 585
2	German (de) Off-Label-Use		1 604
3	Russian (ru) Офф-лейбл		1 447
4	Italian (it) Off-label		449
5	Japanese (ja) 適応外使用		446
6	Portuguese (pt) Uso off label		307
7	Dutch (nl) Niet-geregistreerd gebruik		256
8	Chinese (zh) 仿單標示外使用		243
9	Spanish (es) Uso fuera de indicación		155
10	Simple English (simple) Off-label use		145

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Off-label use		150
2	German (de) Off-Label-Use		70
3	Italian (it) Off-label		35
4	Dutch (nl) Niet-geregistreerd gebruik		19
5	Japanese (ja) 適応外使用		18
6	Russian (ru) Офф-лейбл		17
7	Polish (pl) Pozarejestracyjne stosowanie leków		11
8	Finnish (fi) Lääkkeen poikkeuskäyttö		9
9	Spanish (es) Uso fuera de indicación		8
10	Hungarian (hu) Off-label gyógyszeralkalmazás		7

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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 "Off-label use" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Penggunaan di luar label		1
2	Chinese (zh) 仿單標示外使用		1
3	Arabic (ar) استخدام من دون تصريح		0
4	Catalan (ca) Ús en indicació no autoritzada		0
5	German (de) Off-Label-Use		0
6	English (en) Off-label use		0
7	Spanish (es) Uso fuera de indicación		0
8	Persian (fa) استفاده بدون مجوز		0
9	Finnish (fi) Lääkkeen poikkeuskäyttö		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Off-label gyógyszeralkalmazás		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 "Off-label use" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Off-label use		326
2	German (de) Off-Label-Use		206
3	Italian (it) Off-label		91
4	Dutch (nl) Niet-geregistreerd gebruik		65
5	Japanese (ja) 適応外使用		62
6	Chinese (zh) 仿單標示外使用		40
7	Russian (ru) Офф-лейбл		33
8	Arabic (ar) استخدام من دون تصريح		32
9	Spanish (es) Uso fuera de indicación		27
10	Slovenian (sl) Nenamenska uporaba		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استخدام من دون تصريح
ca	Catalan Ús en indicació no autoritzada
de	German Off-Label-Use
en	English Off-label use
es	Spanish Uso fuera de indicación
fa	Persian استفاده بدون مجوز
fi	Finnish Lääkkeen poikkeuskäyttö
hu	Hungarian Off-label gyógyszeralkalmazás
id	Indonesian Penggunaan di luar label
it	Italian Off-label
ja	Japanese 適応外使用
ko	Korean 오프라벨
nl	Dutch Niet-geregistreerd gebruik
no	Norwegian Off-label bruk
pl	Polish Pozarejestracyjne stosowanie leków
pt	Portuguese Uso off label
ru	Russian Офф-лейбл
simple	Simple English Off-label use
sl	Slovenian Nenamenska uporaba
vi	Vietnamese Kê đơn không theo hướng dẫn trên nhãn
zh	Chinese 仿單標示外使用

Best Rank

English: #92644 04.2013

Global: #79833 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #23004 12.2003

Global: #41592 12.2003

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