Merck & Co.

Quality:

Merck & Co. - American multinational pharmaceutical company. This company is the 781^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 908^th most popular company in German Wikipedia. Article “Merck & Co.” in German Wikipedia has 41.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.19 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 908^th most popular in business in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 781^st most popular in business.

In June 2025 the article “Merck & Co.” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Merck & Co.”, its content was written by 127 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1303 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Merck & Co. is on the 908^th place in local ranking of business in German Wikipedia and on the 781^st place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 434 times in German Wikipedia and cited 5086 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #6109 in September 2014
• Global: #6276 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1292 in January 2012
• Global: #9122 in October 2021

There are 37 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) Merck & Co.		95.2938
2	Chinese (zh) 默克藥廠		73.0931
3	Indonesian (id) Merck & Co.		54.4792
4	Arabic (ar) ميرك		54.4036
5	Russian (ru) Merck & Co		51.792
6	German (de) Merck & Co.		41.5231
7	Malay (ms) Merck & Co.		40.6573
8	Turkish (tr) Merck & Co.		39.7638
9	Hebrew (he) מרק (חברת תרופות)		35.9291
10	Portuguese (pt) Merck Sharp and Dohme		35.5421

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merck & Co.		5 835 899
2	German (de) Merck & Co.		826 272
3	Japanese (ja) メルク・アンド・カンパニー		728 884
4	Chinese (zh) 默克藥廠		495 793
5	French (fr) Merck & Co.		371 551
6	Spanish (es) Merck Sharp and Dohme		330 433
7	Italian (it) Merck & Co.		193 638
8	Russian (ru) Merck & Co		184 066
9	Polish (pl) Merck & Co.		108 170
10	Portuguese (pt) Merck Sharp and Dohme		107 377

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) Merck & Co.		20 115
2	German (de) Merck & Co.		2 807
3	Chinese (zh) 默克藥廠		2 167
4	Japanese (ja) メルク・アンド・カンパニー		2 166
5	French (fr) Merck & Co.		1 074
6	Spanish (es) Merck Sharp and Dohme		892
7	Russian (ru) Merck & Co		746
8	Italian (it) Merck & Co.		689
9	Portuguese (pt) Merck Sharp and Dohme		314
10	Korean (ko) MSD (기업)		307

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merck & Co.		507
2	German (de) Merck & Co.		127
3	French (fr) Merck & Co.		103
4	Japanese (ja) メルク・アンド・カンパニー		75
5	Norwegian (no) MSD (legemiddelfirma)		61
6	Italian (it) Merck & Co.		60
7	Chinese (zh) 默克藥廠		56
8	Hebrew (he) מרק (חברת תרופות)		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Merck Sharp and Dohme		25
10	Russian (ru) Merck & Co		25

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) Merck & Co.		3
2	German (de) Merck & Co.		1
3	Arabic (ar) ميرك		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Merck & Co		0
5	Danish (da) Merck & Co.		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Merck & Co.		0
7	Spanish (es) Merck Sharp and Dohme		0
8	Estonian (et) Merck & Co.		0
9	Basque (eu) Merck & Co.		0
10	Persian (fa) مرک اند کو.		0

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

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