Cold medicine

Quality:

Antitussive - medication taken to relieve cold symptoms. Article “Cold medicine” in English Wikipedia has 59.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 60 references and 13 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Cold medicine” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cold medicine”, its content was written by 554 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 973 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 714 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2628 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1316 in July 2003
• Global: #5092 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6143 in January 2013
• Global: #12432 in January 2013

There are 27 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	Russian (ru) Средства от простуды и кашля		62.4052
2	English (en) Cold medicine		59.8441
3	Swedish (sv) Hostmedicin		38.9214
4	Arabic (ar) أدوية السعال		36.9501
5	Indonesian (id) Antitusif		36.3976
6	Dutch (nl) Hoestdrank		36.3867
7	Turkish (tr) Öksürük ilacı		35.4587
8	Finnish (fi) Yskänlääkkeet		34.9601
9	Persian (fa) داروی سرماخوردگی		33.4872
10	French (fr) Antitussif		31.9602

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cold medicine		8 041 722
2	Spanish (es) Antitusígeno		1 437 943
3	Arabic (ar) أدوية السعال		574 041
4	German (de) Antitussivum		557 307
5	Japanese (ja) 鎮咳去痰薬		389 619
6	French (fr) Antitussif		344 419
7	Portuguese (pt) Antitússico		274 286
8	Swedish (sv) Hostmedicin		216 273
9	Dutch (nl) Hoestdrank		163 249
10	Turkish (tr) Öksürük ilacı		154 324

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) Cold medicine		13 246
2	Spanish (es) Antitusígeno		2 404
3	Japanese (ja) 鎮咳去痰薬		947
4	German (de) Antitussivum		928
5	Russian (ru) Средства от простуды и кашля		818
6	French (fr) Antitussif		563
7	Turkish (tr) Öksürük ilacı		530
8	Chinese (zh) 止咳藥		457
9	Portuguese (pt) Antitússico		446
10	Swedish (sv) Hostmedicin		351

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cold medicine		554
2	German (de) Antitussivum		72
3	Dutch (nl) Hoestdrank		40
4	French (fr) Antitussif		35
5	Spanish (es) Antitusígeno		28
6	Finnish (fi) Yskänlääkkeet		25
7	Japanese (ja) 鎮咳去痰薬		19
8	Portuguese (pt) Antitússico		19
9	Italian (it) Antitussivi		17
10	Swedish (sv) Hostmedicin		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) Cold medicine		1
2	Arabic (ar) أدوية السعال		0
3	Belarusian (be) Процівакашлевыя сродкі		0
4	Catalan (ca) Antitussigen		0
5	Czech (cs) Léčiva ovlivňující kašel		0
6	German (de) Antitussivum		0
7	Spanish (es) Antitusígeno		0
8	Persian (fa) داروی سرماخوردگی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Yskänlääkkeet		0
10	French (fr) Antitussif		0

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

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