Ball Lightning (novel)

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Ball Lightning (novel)

Quality:

Ball Lightning - 2004 hard science fiction novel by Liu Cixin. Article “Ball Lightning (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ball Lightning (novel)”, its content was written by 37 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 74 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 51 times in English Wikipedia and cited 104 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #28827 in May 2019
  • Global: #83154 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #54689 in March 2024
  • Global: #81483 in March 2024

There are 5 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)
Ball Lightning (novel)
28.6619
2Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
21.3064
3Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
18.4847
4German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
15.412
5French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
14.4992
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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 "Ball Lightning (novel)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ball Lightning (novel)
250 756
2Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
146 671
3French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
14 237
4German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
7 721
5Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
1 759
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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 "Ball Lightning (novel)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ball Lightning (novel)
3 830
2Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
621
3French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
285
4German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
148
5Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
43
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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 "Ball Lightning (novel)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ball Lightning (novel)
37
2Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
23
3Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
7
4German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
5
5French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
2
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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 "Ball Lightning (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
0
2English (en)
Ball Lightning (novel)
0
3French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
0
4Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
0
5Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
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 "Ball Lightning (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ball Lightning (novel)
51
2German (de)
Kugelblitz (Roman)
36
3Chinese (zh)
球状闪电 (小说)
9
4French (fr)
Boule de foudre (roman)
7
5Portuguese (pt)
Ball Lightning
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Kugelblitz (Roman)
enEnglish
Ball Lightning (novel)
frFrench
Boule de foudre (roman)
ptPortuguese
Ball Lightning
zhChinese
球状闪电 (小说)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#54689
03.2024
Global:
#81483
03.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#28827
05.2019
Global:
#83154
08.2021

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ball Lightning from Wikipedia articles about Remembrance of Earths Past, Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, Ball lightning and Deaths End. Whereas reading the article about Ball Lightning people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ball lightning, Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, Hard science fiction and Copenhagen interpretation.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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