Action potential

Quality:

Action potential - process by which neurons communicate with each other by changes in their membrane potentials.. Article “Action potential” in English Wikipedia has 83.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 226 references and 41 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.25 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8085^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2025 the article “Action potential” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Action potential”, its content was written by 486 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1747 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1054 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5467 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1229 in December 2002
• Global: #2947 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #602 in August 2008
• Global: #1306 in August 2008

There are 43 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	Vietnamese (vi) Điện thế hoạt động		99.2657
2	Hindi (hi) क्रिया विभव		95
3	Korean (ko) 활동전위		92.0141
4	English (en) Action potential		83.2846
5	Czech (cs) Akční potenciál		54.3338
6	German (de) Aktionspotential		50.3346
7	Ukrainian (uk) Потенціал дії		50.1861
8	Arabic (ar) جهد الفعل		49.8918
9	Portuguese (pt) Potencial de ação		48.452
10	Simple English (simple) Nerve impulse		39.4741

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Action potential		11 735 869
2	Spanish (es) Potencial de acción		4 595 175
3	Portuguese (pt) Potencial de ação		2 073 094
4	German (de) Aktionspotential		1 924 463
5	Italian (it) Potenziale d'azione		1 450 488
6	Japanese (ja) 活動電位		1 318 554
7	Russian (ru) Потенциал действия		1 246 939
8	French (fr) Potentiel d'action		1 219 185
9	Polish (pl) Potencjał czynnościowy		734 775
10	Chinese (zh) 动作电位		510 806

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) Action potential		15 380
2	Russian (ru) Потенциал действия		2 205
3	Spanish (es) Potencial de acción		1 724
4	French (fr) Potentiel d'action		1 617
5	Italian (it) Potenziale d'azione		1 523
6	Chinese (zh) 动作电位		1 312
7	Japanese (ja) 活動電位		1 070
8	German (de) Aktionspotential		1 052
9	Korean (ko) 활동전위		960
10	Polish (pl) Potencjał czynnościowy		727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Action potential		486
2	German (de) Aktionspotential		182
3	Spanish (es) Potencial de acción		107
4	French (fr) Potentiel d'action		99
5	Italian (it) Potenziale d'azione		75
6	Russian (ru) Потенциал действия		64
7	Hebrew (he) דחף עצבי		62
8	Dutch (nl) Actiepotentiaal		61
9	Portuguese (pt) Potencial de ação		47
10	Chinese (zh) 动作电位		43

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) Action potential		2
2	Catalan (ca) Potencial d'acció		1
3	Hebrew (he) דחף עצבי		1
4	Hindi (hi) क्रिया विभव		1
5	Chinese (zh) 动作电位		1
6	Arabic (ar) جهد الفعل		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Fəaliyyət potensialı		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Нервен импулс		0
9	Czech (cs) Akční potenciál		0
10	Danish (da) Aktionspotential		0

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

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