Rapid eye movement sleep

Quality:

Rapid eye movement sleep - unique phase of sleep in mammals and birds, characterized by random/rapid movement of the eyes. Article “Rapid eye movement sleep” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Rapid eye movement sleep”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1508 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2385 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1881 in September 2019
• Global: #3332 in August 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10398 in May 2016
• Global: #6158 in January 2020

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, 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) Rapid eye movement sleep		91.4286
2	Chinese (zh) 快速動眼期		86.6667
3	Hebrew (he) שנת REM		56.7774
4	Russian (ru) Фаза быстрого сна		44.5945
5	Korean (ko) 렘수면		40.1127
6	Dutch (nl) Remslaap		35.2525
7	Simple English (simple) Rapid eye movement sleep		30.8505
8	German (de) REM-Schlaf		29.2672
9	Catalan (ca) Son de moviments oculars ràpids		27.5445
10	Latin (la) Somnus motuum ocularium rapidorum		25.9544

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rapid eye movement sleep		9 362 586
2	German (de) REM-Schlaf		2 721 113
3	Spanish (es) Sueño de movimientos oculares rápidos		2 132 780
4	Japanese (ja) レム睡眠		2 039 406
5	Russian (ru) Фаза быстрого сна		1 334 759
6	French (fr) Sommeil paradoxal		1 231 806
7	Chinese (zh) 快速動眼期		1 091 344
8	Polish (pl) Faza REM		975 172
9	Portuguese (pt) Sono com movimento rápido dos olhos		849 591
10	Italian (it) Sonno REM		748 258

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) Rapid eye movement sleep		19 063
2	Japanese (ja) レム睡眠		5 389
3	Russian (ru) Фаза быстрого сна		4 976
4	German (de) REM-Schlaf		4 824
5	Chinese (zh) 快速動眼期		4 116
6	French (fr) Sommeil paradoxal		4 023
7	Korean (ko) 렘수면		2 884
8	Polish (pl) Faza REM		2 860
9	Spanish (es) Sueño de movimientos oculares rápidos		1 945
10	Italian (it) Sonno REM		1 750

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rapid eye movement sleep		476
2	German (de) REM-Schlaf		117
3	French (fr) Sommeil paradoxal		100
4	Spanish (es) Sueño de movimientos oculares rápidos		91
5	Italian (it) Sonno REM		82
6	Dutch (nl) Remslaap		82
7	Russian (ru) Фаза быстрого сна		70
8	Norwegian (no) REM-søvn		47
9	Portuguese (pt) Sono com movimento rápido dos olhos		41
10	Turkish (tr) Hızlı göz hareketi		36

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	Russian (ru) Фаза быстрого сна		4
2	English (en) Rapid eye movement sleep		3
3	German (de) REM-Schlaf		1
4	Arabic (ar) نوم حركة العين السريعة		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Бързо движение на очите		0
6	Catalan (ca) Son de moviments oculars ràpids		0
7	Czech (cs) REM fáze spánku		0
8	Danish (da) Rapid Eye Movement		0
9	Greek (el) Ύπνος REM		0
10	Spanish (es) Sueño de movimientos oculares rápidos		0

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

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