Book of Genesis

Quality:

Book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible. This book is the 67^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 180^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Book of Genesis” in English Wikipedia has 76.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 63 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.01 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4988^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 180^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4804^th most popular in all topics.

The 2314^th most popular in AI.

The 67^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8167^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4687^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Book of Genesis” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4687^th place).

Since the creation of article “Book of Genesis”, its content was written by 1108 registered users of English Wikipedia (4988^th place) and edited by 4818 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2314^th place).

Book of Genesis is on the 180^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2980 times in English Wikipedia and cited 28978 times in all languages (5674^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #200 in February 2001
• Global: #189 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2013 in April 2016
• Global: #2687 in April 2016

There are 52 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	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		100
2	Arabic (ar) سفر التكوين		99.4345
3	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		94.6568
4	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		92.3386
5	Chinese (zh) 創世記		87.3902
6	English (en) Book of Genesis		76.2095
7	Basque (eu) Hasiera (Biblia)		74.8122
8	Norwegian (no) Første Mosebok		71.7328
9	Turkish (tr) Yaratılış Kitabı		64.444
10	Persian (fa) سفر پیدایش		60.6878

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Book of Genesis		11 479 941
2	Spanish (es) Génesis		6 614 427
3	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		2 860 867
4	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		2 792 793
5	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		2 321 788
6	Italian (it) Genesi		1 899 481
7	Japanese (ja) 創世記		1 867 394
8	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		1 599 210
9	Polish (pl) Księga Rodzaju		1 303 066
10	Chinese (zh) 創世記		1 051 241

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) Book of Genesis		49 276
2	Spanish (es) Génesis		12 188
3	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		8 490
4	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		7 346
5	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		6 948
6	Japanese (ja) 創世記		6 386
7	Chinese (zh) 創世記		4 690
8	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		4 572
9	Italian (it) Genesi		4 012
10	Arabic (ar) سفر التكوين		3 434

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Book of Genesis		1 108
2	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		425
3	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		337
4	Spanish (es) Génesis		266
5	Hebrew (he) בראשית		240
6	Italian (it) Genesi		207
7	Dutch (nl) Genesis (boek)		206
8	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		152
9	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		151
10	Chinese (zh) 創世記		114

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) Book of Genesis		7
2	Spanish (es) Génesis		5
3	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		2
4	Galician (gl) Xénese		2
5	Hebrew (he) בראשית		2
6	Korean (ko) 창세기		2
7	Serbian (sr) Књига постања		2
8	Thai (th) หนังสือปฐมกาล		2
9	Catalan (ca) Gènesi		1
10	Indonesian (id) Kitab Kejadian		1

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

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