History of medicine

History of medicine - study of the development of medicine over time. Article “History of medicine” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “History of medicine”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6886 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13471 in July 2024
• Global: #11 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16838 in November 2024
• Global: #13750 in February 2015

There are 38 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	Basque (eu) Medikuntzaren historia		98.5645
2	Greek (el) Ιστορία της ιατρικής		95.6129
3	English (en) History of medicine		93.2389
4	Catalan (ca) Història de la medicina		91.7038
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Historija medicine		91.5431
6	Serbian (sr) Istorija medicine		81.6887
7	French (fr) Histoire de la médecine		80.2506
8	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		75.1144
9	Bulgarian (bg) История на медицината		61.6003
10	Danish (da) Medicinens historie		59.4427

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

The most popular language versions of the article "History of medicine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		4 273 421
2	English (en) History of medicine		4 121 620
3	French (fr) Histoire de la médecine		1 237 389
4	Russian (ru) История медицины		955 953
5	Portuguese (pt) História da medicina		424 458
6	Italian (it) Storia della medicina		323 967
7	Japanese (ja) 医学史		273 076
8	German (de) Geschichte der Medizin		253 626
9	Romanian (ro) Istoria medicinei		222 721
10	Dutch (nl) Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde		205 783

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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 "History of medicine" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of medicine		6 020
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		1 887
3	French (fr) Histoire de la médecine		1 339
4	German (de) Geschichte der Medizin		855
5	Russian (ru) История медицины		805
6	Italian (it) Storia della medicina		512
7	Japanese (ja) 医学史		446
8	Chinese (zh) 医学史		418
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ پزشکی		346
10	Dutch (nl) Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde		263

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of medicine		722
2	French (fr) Histoire de la médecine		296
3	German (de) Geschichte der Medizin		220
4	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		188
5	Russian (ru) История медицины		134
6	Italian (it) Storia della medicina		108
7	Dutch (nl) Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde		72
8	Japanese (ja) 医学史		50
9	Portuguese (pt) História da medicina		50
10	Chinese (zh) 医学史		49

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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 "History of medicine" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Serbian (sr) Istorija medicine		2
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الطب		1
3	Catalan (ca) Història de la medicina		1
4	English (en) History of medicine		1
5	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		1
6	Italian (it) Storia della medicina		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Tibb tarixi		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) История на медицината		0
9	Czech (cs) Dějiny lékařství		0
10	Danish (da) Medicinens historie		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 "History of medicine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) History of medicine		1 781
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الطب		580
3	French (fr) Histoire de la médecine		526
4	Portuguese (pt) História da medicina		388
5	Persian (fa) تاریخ پزشکی		382
6	Chinese (zh) 医学史		360
7	Turkish (tr) Tıp tarihi		317
8	Japanese (ja) 医学史		308
9	Spanish (es) Historia de la medicina		255
10	Italian (it) Storia della medicina		237

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تاريخ الطب
az	Azerbaijani Tibb tarixi
bg	Bulgarian История на медицината
ca	Catalan Història de la medicina
cs	Czech Dějiny lékařství
da	Danish Medicinens historie
de	German Geschichte der Medizin
el	Greek Ιστορία της ιατρικής
en	English History of medicine
eo	Esperanto Historio de medicino
es	Spanish Historia de la medicina
eu	Basque Medikuntzaren historia
fa	Persian تاریخ پزشکی
fi	Finnish Lääketieteen historia
fr	French Histoire de la médecine
gl	Galician Historia da medicina
he	Hebrew היסטוריה של הרפואה
hi	Hindi आयुर्विज्ञान का इतिहास
hr	Croatian Povijest medicine
hy	Armenian Բժշկության պատմություն
it	Italian Storia della medicina
ja	Japanese 医学史
ko	Korean 의학사
nl	Dutch Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde
no	Norwegian Medisinens historie
pt	Portuguese História da medicina
ro	Romanian Istoria medicinei
ru	Russian История медицины
sh	Serbo-Croatian Historija medicine
simple	Simple English History of medicine
sk	Slovak Dejiny medicíny
sr	Serbian Istorija medicine
sv	Swedish Medicinens historia
ta	Tamil மருத்துவத்துறையின் வரலாறு
tr	Turkish Tıp tarihi
uk	Ukrainian Історія медицини
vi	Vietnamese Lịch sử y học
zh	Chinese 医学史

Best Rank

Simple English: #16838 11.2024

Global: #13750 02.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #13471 07.2024

Global: #11 04.2001

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