Short-term memory

Quality:

Short-term memory - the memory process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information received a short time (up to about 30 minutes) ago. Article “Short-term memory” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 6 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 “Short-term memory”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 729 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1636 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #202 in May 2015
• Global: #3668 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4977 in July 2016
• Global: #33841 in October 2013

There are 28 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) Short-term memory		59.5932
2	Turkish (tr) Kısa süreli bellek		55.888
3	Portuguese (pt) Memória a curto prazo		55.2197
4	Chinese (zh) 短期记忆		54.5733
5	Hebrew (he) זיכרון לטווח קצר		34.8889
6	Catalan (ca) Memòria a curt termini		32.5151
7	Simple English (simple) Short-term memory		26.2216
8	Dutch (nl) Kortetermijngeheugen		26.0142
9	Danish (da) Korttidshukommelse		25.671
10	Hindi (hi) लघु अवधि स्मृति		24.6202

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Short-term memory		3 561 505
2	Spanish (es) Memoria a corto plazo		997 192
3	French (fr) Mémoire à court terme		402 507
4	Italian (it) Memoria a breve termine		343 891
5	Polish (pl) Pamięć krótkotrwała		313 123
6	Dutch (nl) Kortetermijngeheugen		285 651
7	Russian (ru) Кратковременная память		231 395
8	Chinese (zh) 短期记忆		214 917
9	Persian (fa) حافظه کوتاه‌مدت		117 747
10	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة قصيرة الأمد		105 019

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) Short-term memory		3 241
2	Dutch (nl) Kortetermijngeheugen		839
3	Chinese (zh) 短期记忆		461
4	Russian (ru) Кратковременная память		377
5	Spanish (es) Memoria a corto plazo		351
6	French (fr) Mémoire à court terme		351
7	Italian (it) Memoria a breve termine		245
8	Persian (fa) حافظه کوتاه‌مدت		242
9	Polish (pl) Pamięć krótkotrwała		213
10	Turkish (tr) Kısa süreli bellek		101

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Short-term memory		357
2	French (fr) Mémoire à court terme		49
3	Dutch (nl) Kortetermijngeheugen		36
4	Italian (it) Memoria a breve termine		33
5	Turkish (tr) Kısa süreli bellek		28
6	Polish (pl) Pamięć krótkotrwała		22
7	Spanish (es) Memoria a corto plazo		21
8	Persian (fa) حافظه کوتاه‌مدت		19
9	Chinese (zh) 短期记忆		19
10	Swedish (sv) Korttidsminne		17

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) Short-term memory		1
2	Spanish (es) Memoria a corto plazo		1
3	Basque (eu) Iraupen laburreko oroimen		1
4	Serbian (sr) Краткотрајна меморија		1
5	Turkish (tr) Kısa süreli bellek		1
6	Chinese (zh) 短期记忆		1
7	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة قصيرة الأمد		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Qısamüddətli yaddaş		0
9	Catalan (ca) Memòria a curt termini		0
10	Danish (da) Korttidshukommelse		0

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

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