Lemon balm

Quality:

Melissa officinalis - lemon balm, a species of plant, herb. This taxon is the 379^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Lemon balm” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 379^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Lemon balm”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1495 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Melissa officinalis is on the 379^th place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 82 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4026 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2179 in May 2013
• Global: #442 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6605 in May 2009
• Global: #6494 in May 2020

There are 46 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	English (en) Lemon balm		63.8549
2	Greek (el) Μελισσόχορτο		63.2332
3	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		56.5858
4	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		54.9058
5	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		44.5941
6	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		43.1997
7	Indonesian (id) Daun madu limau		40.433
8	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		40.1462
9	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		39.0146
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tía tô đất		38.8461

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lemon balm		4 328 435
2	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		2 397 748
3	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		1 848 532
4	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		1 789 298
5	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		1 508 386
6	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		1 312 346
7	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		1 077 995
8	Polish (pl) Melisa lekarska		1 010 079
9	Japanese (ja) レモンバーム		738 852
10	Czech (cs) Meduňka lékařská		497 077

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) Lemon balm		29 650
2	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		9 807
3	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		9 185
4	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		7 261
5	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		6 817
6	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		5 637
7	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		3 821
8	Hungarian (hu) Citromfű		3 129
9	Czech (cs) Meduňka lékařská		2 796
10	Romanian (ro) Roiniță		2 638

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lemon balm		254
2	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		181
3	French (fr) Mélisse officinale		111
4	Italian (it) Melissa officinalis		91
5	Dutch (nl) Citroenmelisse		70
6	Spanish (es) Melissa officinalis		60
7	Hungarian (hu) Citromfű		59
8	Polish (pl) Melisa lekarska		57
9	Russian (ru) Мелисса лекарственная		49
10	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		44

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) Lemon balm		2
2	Thai (th) สะระแหน่		2
3	Catalan (ca) Melissa		1
4	German (de) Zitronenmelisse		1
5	Polish (pl) Melisa lekarska		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Erva-cidreira		1
7	Arabic (ar) ترنجان مخزني		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Dərman ballınanəsi		0
9	Belarusian (be) Меліса лекавая		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Маточина		0

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

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