Book of Genesis

Quality:

Book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible. This book is the 65^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 176^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Book of Genesis” in English Wikipedia has 80.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 78 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.25 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:

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The 4953^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 176^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4880^th most popular in all topics.

The 2335^th most popular in AI.

The 65^th most popular in books.

In June 2026 the article “Book of Genesis” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Book of Genesis”, its content was written by 1143 registered users of English Wikipedia (4953^rd place) and edited by 4848 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2335^th place).

Book of Genesis is on the 176^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 65^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3027 times in English Wikipedia and cited 30031 times in all languages (5652^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #222 in February 2001
• Global: #189 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2030 in April 2016
• Global: #2700 in April 2016

There are 53 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, 2026 (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		99.2819
3	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		94.7438
4	Chinese (zh) 創世記		87.3171
5	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		87.2629
6	Persian (fa) سفر پیدایش		85.7041
7	English (en) Book of Genesis		80.8322
8	Basque (eu) Hasiera (Biblia)		78.9873
9	Norwegian (no) Første Mosebok		71.3513
10	Turkish (tr) Yaratılış Kitabı		69.4918

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Book of Genesis		12 076 455
2	Spanish (es) Génesis		6 757 085
3	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		2 957 733
4	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		2 887 400
5	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		2 365 849
6	Italian (it) Genesi		1 948 155
7	Japanese (ja) 創世記		1 939 419
8	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		1 717 492
9	Polish (pl) Księga Rodzaju		1 335 808
10	Chinese (zh) 創世記		1 103 182

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		37 137
2	Spanish (es) Génesis		8 899
3	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		5 698
4	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		5 477
5	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		5 454
6	Japanese (ja) 創世記		5 056
7	Italian (it) Genesi		3 113
8	Chinese (zh) 創世記		3 099
9	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		2 931
10	Persian (fa) سفر پیدایش		2 745

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		1 143
2	German (de) Genesis (Bibel)		428
3	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		341
4	Spanish (es) Génesis		270
5	Hebrew (he) בראשית		244
6	Italian (it) Genesi		213
7	Dutch (nl) Genesis (boek)		208
8	Russian (ru) Книга Бытия		156
9	Portuguese (pt) Gênesis		153
10	Chinese (zh) 創世記		116

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		3
2	French (fr) Livre de la Genèse		2
3	Serbian (sr) Књига постања		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Yaradılış kitabı		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Битие (Библия)		1
6	Basque (eu) Hasiera (Biblia)		1
7	Hebrew (he) בראשית		1
8	Japanese (ja) 創世記		1
9	Arabic (ar) سفر التكوين		0
10	Belarusian (be) Кніга Быццё		0

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

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