Plague doctor

Quality:

Plague doctor - medical physician that treated victims of the bubonic plague. Article “Plague doctor” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Plague doctor”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 985 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 357 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #444 in June 2021
• Global: #1121 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18199 in June 2025
• Global: #555 in March 2020

There are 31 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	Malay (ms) Doktor wabak		77.2856
2	English (en) Plague doctor		69.3943
3	Chinese (zh) 瘟疫醫生		60.1962
4	Portuguese (pt) Médico da peste		56.4303
5	Turkish (tr) Veba doktoru		46.5506
6	Catalan (ca) Metge de la pesta negra		44.6876
7	Greek (el) Γιατρός της Πανούκλας		42.6829
8	Hebrew (he) רופא מגפה		40.4677
9	Spanish (es) Médico de la peste negra		40.1592
10	Polish (pl) Lekarz zadżumionych		38.9817

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plague doctor		9 261 664
2	Russian (ru) Чумной доктор		2 008 880
3	Japanese (ja) ペスト医師		1 440 266
4	Spanish (es) Médico de la peste negra		1 386 998
5	German (de) Pestarzt		888 365
6	Portuguese (pt) Médico da peste		485 777
7	Chinese (zh) 瘟疫醫生		428 938
8	French (fr) Médecin de peste		401 320
9	Dutch (nl) Pestmeester		261 779
10	Polish (pl) Lekarz zadżumionych		196 620

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) Plague doctor		21 879
2	Japanese (ja) ペスト医師		5 307
3	German (de) Pestarzt		3 665
4	Russian (ru) Чумной доктор		2 477
5	Spanish (es) Médico de la peste negra		2 006
6	Chinese (zh) 瘟疫醫生		1 934
7	French (fr) Médecin de peste		1 009
8	Polish (pl) Lekarz zadżumionych		957
9	Portuguese (pt) Médico da peste		621
10	Dutch (nl) Pestmeester		523

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plague doctor		460
2	German (de) Pestarzt		64
3	Spanish (es) Médico de la peste negra		51
4	Dutch (nl) Pestmeester		50
5	Russian (ru) Чумной доктор		48
6	French (fr) Médecin de peste		35
7	Swedish (sv) Pestläkare		25
8	Japanese (ja) ペスト医師		24
9	Portuguese (pt) Médico da peste		21
10	Chinese (zh) 瘟疫醫生		19

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	German (de) Pestarzt		5
2	English (en) Plague doctor		3
3	Spanish (es) Médico de la peste negra		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Pestisdoktor		1
5	Japanese (ja) ペスト医師		1
6	Arabic (ar) طبيب الطاعون		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Taun həkimi		0
8	Catalan (ca) Metge de la pesta negra		0
9	Czech (cs) Morový doktor		0
10	Greek (el) Γιατρός της Πανούκλας		0

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

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