Sedative

Quality:

Sedative - a drug that subdues excitement and calms the subject without inducing sleep, though drowsiness may be produced. Article “Sedative” in English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.4 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Sedative” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sedative”, its content was written by 378 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 956 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1670 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8055 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1955 in August 2003
• Global: #4596 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9609 in February 2012
• Global: #11819 in February 2012

There are 36 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	Portuguese (pt) Sedativo		48.3702
2	Indonesian (id) Sedatif		45.7689
3	English (en) Sedative		45.6895
4	Hebrew (he) תרופת הרגעה		34.6568
5	Japanese (ja) 鎮静薬		31.2072
6	Arabic (ar) مهدئ		29.6822
7	Spanish (es) Sedante		26.7743
8	Croatian (hr) Sedativi		26.2627
9	Uzbek (uz) Trankvilizator		24.3333
10	Bulgarian (bg) Успокоително лекарство		23.5088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sedative		7 489 695
2	Spanish (es) Sedante		1 903 574
3	Russian (ru) Седативные средства		1 807 629
4	French (fr) Sédatif		1 076 366
5	German (de) Tranquilizer		868 098
6	Japanese (ja) 鎮静薬		492 817
7	Portuguese (pt) Sedativo		406 964
8	Swedish (sv) Sedativa läkemedel		291 869
9	Chinese (zh) 鎮靜劑		275 467
10	Finnish (fi) Sedatiivit		239 850

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) Sedative		10 852
2	Russian (ru) Седативные средства		2 190
3	French (fr) Sédatif		1 158
4	Chinese (zh) 鎮靜劑		705
5	German (de) Tranquilizer		664
6	Japanese (ja) 鎮静薬		615
7	Spanish (es) Sedante		473
8	Persian (fa) آرام‌بخش		313
9	Finnish (fi) Sedatiivit		260
10	Portuguese (pt) Sedativo		233

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sedative		378
2	Spanish (es) Sedante		59
3	French (fr) Sédatif		54
4	German (de) Tranquilizer		53
5	Russian (ru) Седативные средства		46
6	Hebrew (he) תרופת הרגעה		30
7	Portuguese (pt) Sedativo		30
8	Finnish (fi) Sedatiivit		29
9	Chinese (zh) 鎮靜劑		24
10	Simple English (simple) Sedative		21

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	Arabic (ar) مهدئ		2
2	English (en) Sedative		2
3	Japanese (ja) 鎮静薬		2
4	Indonesian (id) Sedatif		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Sedativo		1
6	Belarusian (be) Седатыўныя сродкі		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Успокоително лекарство		0
8	Catalan (ca) Sedant		0
9	Czech (cs) Sedativum		0
10	German (de) Tranquilizer		0

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

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