Psychoactive drug

Quality:

Psychoactive drug - chemical substance that affects brain function or perception. Article “Psychoactive drug” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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 6419^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Psychoactive drug”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2485 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11093 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #596 in May 2015
• Global: #3634 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5756 in June 2014
• Global: #3414 in November 2018

There are 42 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	English (en) Psychoactive drug		90.5517
2	Indonesian (id) Obat psikoaktif		86.7128
3	Portuguese (pt) Droga psicoativa		63.4754
4	Japanese (ja) 向精神薬		59.5367
5	Hungarian (hu) Pszichoaktív szerek		58.2588
6	Spanish (es) Psicoactivo		55.2424
7	Italian (it) Sostanza psicoattiva		54.6675
8	Chinese (zh) 精神药物		48.629
9	Basque (eu) Droga psikoaktibo		44.5252
10	Russian (ru) Психоактивное вещество		43.3627

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Psychoactive drug		10 651 446
2	Indonesian (id) Obat psikoaktif		7 523 660
3	Russian (ru) Психоактивное вещество		2 891 998
4	French (fr) Psychotrope		2 511 179
5	Japanese (ja) 向精神薬		2 475 391
6	Spanish (es) Psicoactivo		1 957 397
7	Portuguese (pt) Droga psicoativa		1 487 457
8	German (de) Psychotrope Substanz		1 384 623
9	Polish (pl) Substancja psychoaktywna		1 225 012
10	Czech (cs) Psychoaktivní droga		946 293

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) Psychoactive drug		18 247
2	Russian (ru) Психоактивное вещество		4 978
3	Persian (fa) سایکو اکتیو		4 360
4	French (fr) Psychotrope		3 061
5	Japanese (ja) 向精神薬		1 946
6	German (de) Psychotrope Substanz		1 905
7	Polish (pl) Substancja psychoaktywna		1 731
8	Chinese (zh) 精神药物		1 314
9	Czech (cs) Psychoaktivní droga		1 096
10	Spanish (es) Psicoactivo		934

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Psychoactive drug		613
2	Hebrew (he) חומר פסיכואקטיבי		192
3	French (fr) Psychotrope		178
4	Russian (ru) Психоактивное вещество		159
5	Hungarian (hu) Pszichoaktív szerek		118
6	German (de) Psychotrope Substanz		106
7	Indonesian (id) Obat psikoaktif		106
8	Czech (cs) Psychoaktivní droga		105
9	Japanese (ja) 向精神薬		98
10	Spanish (es) Psicoactivo		79

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	Hebrew (he) חומר פסיכואקטיבי		2
2	Slovak (sk) Droga (omamná látka)		2
3	Arabic (ar) دواء نفسي المفعول		1
4	Czech (cs) Psychoaktivní droga		1
5	English (en) Psychoactive drug		1
6	Basque (eu) Droga psikoaktibo		1
7	Indonesian (id) Obat psikoaktif		1
8	Turkish (tr) Psikotrop madde		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Psixotrop maddə		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Психоактивно вещество		0

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

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