現代 (時代区分)

Contemporary history - subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present, common in English-language historiography. Article “現代 (時代区分)” in Japanese Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.55 points.

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

Since the creation of article “現代 (時代区分)”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 493 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1042 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 2176 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #1873 in November 2009
• Global: #28996 in May 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #50076 in May 2020
• Global: #35368 in February 2009

There are 15 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	Hindi (hi) समकालीन		81.25
2	English (en) Contemporary history		66.1594
3	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		60.2264
4	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		42.6468
5	Korean (ko) 현대사		36.4335
6	Greek (el) Σύγχρονη ιστορία		33.6442
7	Finnish (fi) Nykyaika		33.3062
8	Tamil (ta) சமகால வரலாறு		23.0524
9	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		22.9158
10	Malay (ms) Sejarah sezaman		15.2729

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

The most popular language versions of the article "現代 (時代区分)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contemporary history		2 882 802
2	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		366 895
3	Hindi (hi) समकालीन		354 859
4	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		238 322
5	Thai (th) สมัยปัจจุบัน		230 937
6	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		152 789
7	Korean (ko) 현대사		81 293
8	Chinese (zh) 当代史		49 390
9	Finnish (fi) Nykyaika		32 046
10	Tamil (ta) சமகால வரலாறு		22 399

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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 "現代 (時代区分)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contemporary history		8 061
2	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		1 486
3	Thai (th) สมัยปัจจุบัน		1 289
4	Hindi (hi) समकालीन		684
5	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		377
6	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		343
7	Chinese (zh) 当代史		343
8	Korean (ko) 현대사		244
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ معاصر		209
10	Finnish (fi) Nykyaika		97

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

Language versions of the article "現代 (時代区分)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contemporary history		236
2	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		52
3	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		46
4	Korean (ko) 현대사		32
5	Tamil (ta) சமகால வரலாறு		29
6	Hindi (hi) समकालीन		26
7	Swedish (sv) Samtidshistoria		22
8	Chinese (zh) 当代史		17
9	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		15
10	Thai (th) สมัยปัจจุบัน		6

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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 "現代 (時代区分)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		0
2	Greek (el) Σύγχρονη ιστορία		0
3	English (en) Contemporary history		0
4	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		0
5	Persian (fa) تاریخ معاصر		0
6	Finnish (fi) Nykyaika		0
7	Hindi (hi) समकालीन		0
8	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		0
9	Korean (ko) 현대사		0
10	Malay (ms) Sejarah sezaman		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 "現代 (時代区分)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 現代 (時代区分)		1 042
2	English (en) Contemporary history		693
3	Korean (ko) 현대사		99
4	Arabic (ar) التاريخ المعاصر		98
5	Greek (el) Σύγχρονη ιστορία		60
6	Finnish (fi) Nykyaika		33
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ معاصر		30
8	Spanish (es) Historia de la era contemporánea		29
9	Swedish (sv) Samtidshistoria		25
10	Chinese (zh) 当代史		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التاريخ المعاصر
el	Greek Σύγχρονη ιστορία
en	English Contemporary history
es	Spanish Historia de la era contemporánea
fa	Persian تاریخ معاصر
fi	Finnish Nykyaika
hi	Hindi समकालीन
ja	Japanese 現代 (時代区分)
ko	Korean 현대사
ms	Malay Sejarah sezaman
sv	Swedish Samtidshistoria
ta	Tamil சமகால வரலாறு
th	Thai สมัยปัจจุบัน
vi	Vietnamese Lịch sử đương đại
zh	Chinese 当代史

Best Rank

Japanese: #50076 05.2020

Global: #35368 02.2009

Best Rank

Japanese: #1873 11.2009

Global: #28996 05.2020

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