Research assistant

Research assistant - person employed by a university, a research institute or a privately held organization, for the purpose of assisting in academic or private research. Article “Research assistant” in English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Research assistant”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 297 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 451 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3412 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9415 in November 2003
• Global: #21587 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93567 in January 2011
• Global: #60995 in October 2011

There are 11 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	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		47.2227
2	English (en) Research assistant		24.0819
3	Vietnamese (vi) Trợ lý nghiên cứu		23.2987
4	Chinese (zh) 研究助理		22.2557
5	French (fr) Assistant de recherche		19.3244
6	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		18.8491
7	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		11.1835
8	Arabic (ar) معيد		10.477
9	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		10.025
10	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		2.3707

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		1 670 235
2	English (en) Research assistant		1 381 522
3	Arabic (ar) معيد		191 300
4	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		187 857
5	Hebrew (he) עוזר מחקר		26 050
6	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		24 458
7	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		20 273
8	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		16 159
9	French (fr) Assistant de recherche		8 076
10	Chinese (zh) 研究助理		5 466

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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 "Research assistant" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Research assistant		2 140
2	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		1 860
3	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		445
4	Arabic (ar) معيد		174
5	French (fr) Assistant de recherche		154
6	Chinese (zh) 研究助理		101
7	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		63
8	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		58
9	Hebrew (he) עוזר מחקר		51
10	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		171
2	English (en) Research assistant		55
3	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		16
4	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		11
5	Arabic (ar) معيد		10
6	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		10
7	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		10
8	Hebrew (he) עוזר מחקר		9
9	Vietnamese (vi) Trợ lý nghiên cứu		2
10	Chinese (zh) 研究助理		2

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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 "Research assistant" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) معيد		0
2	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		0
3	English (en) Research assistant		0
4	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		0
5	French (fr) Assistant de recherche		0
6	Hebrew (he) עוזר מחקר		0
7	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		0
8	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		0
9	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Trợ lý nghiên cứu		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 "Research assistant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 助手 (教育)		2 065
2	English (en) Research assistant		451
3	German (de) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft		405
4	Hebrew (he) עוזר מחקר		190
5	Norwegian (no) Vitenskapelig assistent		101
6	Swedish (sv) Forskningsassistent		71
7	Arabic (ar) معيد		55
8	French (fr) Assistant de recherche		33
9	Chinese (zh) 研究助理		20
10	Finnish (fi) Tutkimusapulainen		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معيد
de	German Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft
en	English Research assistant
fi	Finnish Tutkimusapulainen
fr	French Assistant de recherche
he	Hebrew עוזר מחקר
ja	Japanese 助手 (教育)
no	Norwegian Vitenskapelig assistent
sv	Swedish Forskningsassistent
vi	Vietnamese Trợ lý nghiên cứu
zh	Chinese 研究助理

Best Rank

English: #93567 01.2011

Global: #60995 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #9415 11.2003

Global: #21587 11.2003

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