Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian - 1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy. This book is the 447^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 235^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Blood Meridian” in English Wikipedia has 69.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 63 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.77 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Blood Meridian” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Blood Meridian”, its content was written by 300 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 469 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Blood Meridian is on the 235^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 447^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 134 times in English Wikipedia and cited 238 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5391 in June 2023
• Global: #13846 in June 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #748 in April 2023
• Global: #2150 in April 2023

There are 15 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) Blood Meridian		69.9415
2	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		52.9646
3	Persian (fa) نصف‌النهار خون		49.9249
4	Russian (ru) Кровавый меридиан		33.5841
5	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		26.7742
6	Croatian (hr) Krvavi meridijan		24.2025
7	Esperanto (eo) Blood Meridian		19.9731
8	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		19.6317
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кривавий меридіан		18.4265
10	French (fr) Méridien de sang		12.184

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Blood Meridian" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blood Meridian		9 380 524
2	Russian (ru) Кровавый меридиан		248 021
3	Spanish (es) Meridiano de sangre		235 385
4	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		176 826
5	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		145 576
6	French (fr) Méridien de sang		100 638
7	Ukrainian (uk) Кривавий меридіан		25 384
8	Japanese (ja) ブラッド・メリディアン		25 166
9	Portuguese (pt) Blood Meridian		25 113
10	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		19 556

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Blood Meridian" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blood Meridian		145 010
2	Russian (ru) Кровавый меридиан		9 899
3	Spanish (es) Meridiano de sangre		5 074
4	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		2 997
5	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		2 300
6	French (fr) Méridien de sang		2 271
7	Portuguese (pt) Blood Meridian		2 239
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кривавий меридіан		787
9	Japanese (ja) ブラッド・メリディアン		503
10	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		484

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

Language versions of the article "Blood Meridian" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blood Meridian		300
2	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		30
3	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		27
4	French (fr) Méridien de sang		22
5	Dutch (nl) Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West		21
6	Russian (ru) Кровавый меридиан		14
7	Spanish (es) Meridiano de sangre		11
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кривавий меридіан		11
9	Persian (fa) نصف‌النهار خون		9
10	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		8

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

Language versions of the article "Blood Meridian" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blood Meridian		9
2	Croatian (hr) Krvavi meridijan		1
3	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Blood Meridian		0
5	Spanish (es) Meridiano de sangre		0
6	Persian (fa) نصف‌النهار خون		0
7	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		0
8	French (fr) Méridien de sang		0
9	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		0
10	Japanese (ja) ブラッド・メリディアン		0

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

Language versions of the article "Blood Meridian" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Blood Meridian		134
2	French (fr) Méridien de sang		23
3	Russian (ru) Кровавый меридиан		16
4	Spanish (es) Meridiano de sangre		11
5	Persian (fa) نصف‌النهار خون		9
6	Italian (it) Meridiano di sangue		9
7	Dutch (nl) Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West		7
8	Portuguese (pt) Blood Meridian		6
9	German (de) Die Abendröte im Westen		5
10	Finnish (fi) Veren ääriin		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Die Abendröte im Westen
en	English Blood Meridian
eo	Esperanto Blood Meridian
es	Spanish Meridiano de sangre
fa	Persian نصف‌النهار خون
fi	Finnish Veren ääriin
fr	French Méridien de sang
hr	Croatian Krvavi meridijan
it	Italian Meridiano di sangue
ja	Japanese ブラッド・メリディアン
ko	Korean 핏빛자오선
nl	Dutch Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
pt	Portuguese Blood Meridian
ru	Russian Кровавый меридиан
uk	Ukrainian Кривавий меридіан

Best Rank

English: #748 04.2023

Global: #2150 04.2023

Best Rank

English: #5391 06.2023

Global: #13846 06.2023

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