Vegetative state

Quality:

Persistent vegetative state - disorder of consciousness caused by severe brain damage. Article “Vegetative state” in English Wikipedia has 52.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 58 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.86 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Vegetative state” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Vegetative state”, its content was written by 397 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 417 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1636 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1886 in April 2005
• Global: #4107 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2143 in January 2014
• Global: #3235 in January 2014

There are 33 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	Turkish (tr) Vejetatif durum		60.4874
2	English (en) Vegetative state		52.7602
3	German (de) Apallisches Syndrom		40.974
4	Dutch (nl) Langdurige bewustzijnsstoornis		37.8789
5	Catalan (ca) Estat vegetatiu		37.7393
6	Spanish (es) Estado vegetativo		32.4493
7	Japanese (ja) 遷延性意識障害		32.1549
8	Serbian (sr) Trajno vegetativno stanje		29.8658
9	Greek (el) Εμμένουσα φυ­τική κατάσταση		28.5038
10	Italian (it) Stato vegetativo		26.7841

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vegetative state		6 069 955
2	German (de) Apallisches Syndrom		2 179 948
3	Japanese (ja) 遷延性意識障害		1 370 011
4	Russian (ru) Вегетативное состояние		800 883
5	Chinese (zh) 植物狀態		579 500
6	Italian (it) Stato vegetativo		569 674
7	Spanish (es) Estado vegetativo		565 342
8	Dutch (nl) Langdurige bewustzijnsstoornis		285 861
9	Polish (pl) Stan wegetatywny		280 551
10	Portuguese (pt) Estado vegetativo		269 612

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) Vegetative state		25 583
2	German (de) Apallisches Syndrom		4 412
3	Russian (ru) Вегетативное состояние		3 018
4	Japanese (ja) 遷延性意識障害		2 950
5	Chinese (zh) 植物狀態		2 782
6	Spanish (es) Estado vegetativo		1 516
7	Arabic (ar) حالة إنباتية مستديمة		1 070
8	French (fr) Syndrome d'éveil non répondant		965
9	Italian (it) Stato vegetativo		949
10	Persian (fa) زندگی نباتی		777

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vegetative state		397
2	German (de) Apallisches Syndrom		189
3	Italian (it) Stato vegetativo		87
4	Dutch (nl) Langdurige bewustzijnsstoornis		55
5	Russian (ru) Вегетативное состояние		45
6	Japanese (ja) 遷延性意識障害		43
7	Chinese (zh) 植物狀態		39
8	Spanish (es) Estado vegetativo		28
9	Norwegian (no) Vegetativ tilstand		26
10	Finnish (fi) Vegetatiivinen tila		23

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) Vegetative state		2
2	German (de) Apallisches Syndrom		1
3	Greek (el) Εμμένουσα φυ­τική κατάσταση		1
4	Italian (it) Stato vegetativo		1
5	Arabic (ar) حالة إنباتية مستديمة		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вегетатыўны стан		0
7	Catalan (ca) Estat vegetatiu		0
8	Czech (cs) Apalický syndrom		0
9	Spanish (es) Estado vegetativo		0
10	Basque (eu) Egoera begetatibo iraunkor		0

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

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