Working memory

Working memory - cognitive system with a limited capacity that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing. Article “Working memory” in English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 199 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.3 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Working memory” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Working memory”, its content was written by 310 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 709 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 612 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2001 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4216 in November 2001
• Global: #4398 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18880 in February 2015
• Global: #26003 in October 2010

There are 26 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	Armenian (hy) Աշխատանքային հիշողություն		94.8148
2	Catalan (ca) Memòria de treball		84.6154
3	Persian (fa) حافظه کاری		81.3921
4	English (en) Working memory		74.6584
5	Russian (ru) Рабочая память		74.6353
6	Hebrew (he) זיכרון עבודה		60.0491
7	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة عاملة		37.5525
8	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		28.8776
9	Ukrainian (uk) Робоча пам'ять		27.8974
10	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		26.0024

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Working memory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Working memory		4 462 938
2	Japanese (ja) ワーキングメモリ		933 662
3	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		583 406
4	French (fr) Mémoire de travail		419 876
5	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		399 129
6	Dutch (nl) Werkgeheugen (mens)		237 982
7	Russian (ru) Рабочая память		175 890
8	Portuguese (pt) Memória de trabalho		152 795
9	Swedish (sv) Arbetsminne (psykologi)		140 503
10	Hebrew (he) זיכרון עבודה		125 681

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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 "Working memory" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Working memory		11 224
2	Japanese (ja) ワーキングメモリ		1 314
3	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		829
4	Russian (ru) Рабочая память		808
5	French (fr) Mémoire de travail		790
6	Chinese (zh) 工作记忆		656
7	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		591
8	Korean (ko) 작업 기억		345
9	Hebrew (he) זיכרון עבודה		262
10	Portuguese (pt) Memória de trabalho		224

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Working memory		310
2	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		57
3	French (fr) Mémoire de travail		52
4	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		39
5	Russian (ru) Рабочая память		30
6	Japanese (ja) ワーキングメモリ		28
7	Finnish (fi) Työmuisti		23
8	Hebrew (he) זיכרון עבודה		23
9	Dutch (nl) Werkgeheugen (mens)		21
10	Swedish (sv) Arbetsminne (psykologi)		18

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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 "Working memory" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة عاملة		2
2	English (en) Working memory		2
3	French (fr) Mémoire de travail		1
4	Russian (ru) Рабочая память		1
5	Chinese (zh) 工作记忆		1
6	Catalan (ca) Memòria de treball		0
7	Danish (da) Arbejdshukommelse		0
8	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		0
9	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		0
10	Estonian (et) Töömälu		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 "Working memory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Working memory		612
2	Hebrew (he) זיכרון עבודה		182
3	French (fr) Mémoire de travail		162
4	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة عاملة		158
5	Chinese (zh) 工作记忆		115
6	Spanish (es) Memoria de trabajo		104
7	Turkish (tr) Çalışma belleği		82
8	German (de) Arbeitsgedächtnis		80
9	Japanese (ja) ワーキングメモリ		74
10	Portuguese (pt) Memória de trabalho		67

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ذاكرة عاملة
ca	Catalan Memòria de treball
da	Danish Arbejdshukommelse
de	German Arbeitsgedächtnis
en	English Working memory
es	Spanish Memoria de trabajo
et	Estonian Töömälu
eu	Basque Lan-oroimen
fa	Persian حافظه کاری
fi	Finnish Työmuisti
fr	French Mémoire de travail
he	Hebrew זיכרון עבודה
hr	Croatian Radna memorija
hy	Armenian Աշխատանքային հիշողություն
ja	Japanese ワーキングメモリ
kk	Kazakh Қызметтік жады
ko	Korean 작업 기억
nl	Dutch Werkgeheugen (mens)
no	Norwegian Arbeidshukommelsen
pt	Portuguese Memória de trabalho
ru	Russian Рабочая память
sh	Serbo-Croatian Radna memorija
sv	Swedish Arbetsminne (psykologi)
tr	Turkish Çalışma belleği
uk	Ukrainian Робоча пам'ять
zh	Chinese 工作记忆

Best Rank

English: #18880 02.2015

Global: #26003 10.2010

Best Rank

English: #4216 11.2001

Global: #4398 11.2001

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