Neanderthal

Quality:

Neanderthal - extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. This taxon is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 212^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Neanderthal” in Simple English Wikipedia has 70.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4341^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4542^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 212^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1550^th most popular in all topics.

The 763^rd most popular in AI.

The 19^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5511^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5637^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2368^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3477^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Neanderthal” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5637^th place) and written by 35 authors in all languages (3477^th place).

Since the creation of article “Neanderthal”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4542^nd place) and edited by 7014 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (763^rd place).

Neanderthal is on the 212^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 93 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13788 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #363 in January 2011
• Global: #179 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #822 in October 2008
• Global: #520 in April 2014

There are 53 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	German (de) Neandertaler		100
2	Persian (fa) نئاندرتال		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Người Neanderthal		100
4	Basque (eu) Neandertal		100
5	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		99.4573
6	English (en) Neanderthal		95.7578
7	Dutch (nl) Neanderthaler		95.2941
8	Portuguese (pt) Homem de Neandertal		94.5052
9	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		93.0598
10	Hebrew (he) האדם הניאנדרטלי		92.4327

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Neanderthal		29 189 203
2	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		8 309 589
3	German (de) Neandertaler		5 112 024
4	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		5 022 853
5	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		4 249 271
6	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		3 397 835
7	Portuguese (pt) Homem de Neandertal		2 525 725
8	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		2 337 589
9	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		1 773 858
10	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		1 333 579

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) Neanderthal		123 136
2	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		19 994
3	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		19 143
4	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		17 784
5	German (de) Neandertaler		17 195
6	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		11 276
7	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		7 537
8	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		7 131
9	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		5 853
10	Persian (fa) نئاندرتال		5 698

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Neanderthal		1 943
2	German (de) Neandertaler		644
3	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		494
4	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		384
5	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		325
6	Russian (ru) Неандерталец		321
7	Dutch (nl) Neanderthaler		313
8	Hebrew (he) האדם הניאנדרטלי		174
9	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		167
10	Japanese (ja) ネアンデルタール人		151

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) Neanderthal		11
2	Italian (it) Homo neanderthalensis		6
3	Spanish (es) Homo neanderthalensis		5
4	French (fr) Homme de Néandertal		3
5	Norwegian (no) Neandertalere		3
6	Polish (pl) Neandertalczyk		2
7	Slovenian (sl) Neandertalec		2
8	Esperanto (eo) Neandertala homo		1
9	Simple English (simple) Neanderthal		1
10	Chinese (zh) 尼安德特人		1

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

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