Placebo

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Placebo

Quality:

Placebo - substance or treatment of no therapeutic value. Article “Placebo” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 6763rd most popular in all topics.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9664th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Placebo”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2366 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5872 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #543 in October 2015
  • Global: #1285 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2364 in June 2010
  • Global: #2011 in June 2009

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Placebo
86.2718
2German (de)
Placebo
81.4286
3Catalan (ca)
Placebo
59.7098
4Armenian (hy)
Պլացեբո
56.9761
5Hebrew (he)
פלצבו
56.6044
6Chinese (zh)
安慰劑
47.7271
7Hungarian (hu)
Placebo
45.0753
8Finnish (fi)
Lumelääke
45.034
9Tamil (ta)
மருந்துப்போலி
44.5713
10Arabic (ar)
علاج وهمي
44.1866
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Placebo" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Placebo
12 718 150
2Russian (ru)
Плацебо
3 874 308
3German (de)
Placebo
2 879 265
4Japanese (ja)
偽薬
2 159 544
5Polish (pl)
Placebo
2 153 911
6Spanish (es)
Sustancia placebo
1 766 935
7Portuguese (pt)
Placebo
1 705 422
8Italian (it)
Placebo
1 602 231
9Chinese (zh)
安慰劑
655 375
10Dutch (nl)
Placebo (middel)
500 443
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Placebo" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Placebo
19 380
2Russian (ru)
Плацебо
6 489
3Japanese (ja)
偽薬
2 963
4German (de)
Placebo
2 232
5Chinese (zh)
安慰劑
1 790
6Spanish (es)
Sustancia placebo
1 369
7Italian (it)
Placebo
1 278
8Portuguese (pt)
Placebo
1 106
9Polish (pl)
Placebo
879
10Arabic (ar)
علاج وهمي
843
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Placebo" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Placebo
707
2German (de)
Placebo
336
3Russian (ru)
Плацебо
130
4Dutch (nl)
Placebo (middel)
124
5Italian (it)
Placebo
120
6Hebrew (he)
פלצבו
118
7Japanese (ja)
偽薬
78
8Polish (pl)
Placebo
58
9Portuguese (pt)
Placebo
52
10Spanish (es)
Sustancia placebo
50
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Placebo" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Placebo
6
2Arabic (ar)
علاج وهمي
2
3Polish (pl)
Placebo
2
4Catalan (ca)
Placebo
1
5Italian (it)
Placebo
1
6Urdu (ur)
ذہنی طمانیت کا اثر
1
7Azerbaijani (az)
Plasebo
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Плацебо
0
9Czech (cs)
Placebo
0
10Danish (da)
Placebo
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Placebo" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Placebo
1 150
2Persian (fa)
پلاسیبو
511
3German (de)
Placebo
510
4Japanese (ja)
偽薬
357
5Russian (ru)
Плацебо
351
6Italian (it)
Placebo
271
7Hebrew (he)
פלצבו
252
8Portuguese (pt)
Placebo
231
9Chinese (zh)
安慰劑
194
10Ukrainian (uk)
Плацебо
191
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
علاج وهمي
azAzerbaijani
Plasebo
bgBulgarian
Плацебо
caCatalan
Placebo
csCzech
Placebo
daDanish
Placebo
deGerman
Placebo
elGreek
Εικονικό φάρμακο
enEnglish
Placebo
eoEsperanto
Placebo
esSpanish
Sustancia placebo
etEstonian
Platseebo
euBasque
Plazebo
faPersian
پلاسیبو
fiFinnish
Lumelääke
glGalician
Placebo
heHebrew
פלצבו
hiHindi
कूटभेषज
hrCroatian
Placebo
huHungarian
Placebo
hyArmenian
Պլացեբո
idIndonesian
Plasebo
itItalian
Placebo
jaJapanese
偽薬
kaGeorgian
პლაცებო
kkKazakh
Плацебо
koKorean
플러시보
ltLithuanian
Placebas
msMalay
Plasebo
nlDutch
Placebo (middel)
plPolish
Placebo
ptPortuguese
Placebo
roRomanian
Placebo
ruRussian
Плацебо
simpleSimple English
Placebo
skSlovak
Placebo (medicína)
slSlovenian
Placebo
taTamil
மருந்துப்போலி
thThai
ยาหลอก
ukUkrainian
Плацебо
urUrdu
ذہنی طمانیت کا اثر
viVietnamese
Giả dược
zhChinese
安慰劑

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2364
06.2010
Global:
#2011
06.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#543
10.2015
Global:
#1285
02.2004

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Placebo from Wikipedia articles about Homeopathy, Nocebo, Aphrodisiac, Acupuncture and Bach flowers. Whereas reading the article about Placebo people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Placebo, Nocebo, Sham surgery, Homeopathy and Blind experiment.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 偽薬
simple: Placebo

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