Christopher Hitchens

Quality:

Christopher Hitchens - English American author and journalist (1949–2011). This person is the 2622^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Christopher Hitchens” in English Wikipedia has 95.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 251 references and 19 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3547^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1062^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9320^th most popular in all topics.

The 5442^nd most popular in AI.

The 2622^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8597^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6855^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Christopher Hitchens” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6855^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Christopher Hitchens”, its content was written by 1892 registered users of English Wikipedia (1062^nd place) and edited by 3401 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5442^nd place).

Christopher Hitchens is on the 2622^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 860 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3464 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17 in December 2011
• Global: #17 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14 in December 2011
• Global: #48 in December 2011

There are 44 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) Christopher Hitchens		95.321
2	Georgian (ka) კრისტოფერ ჰიტჩენსი		86.2238
3	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		82.0694
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		72.8939
5	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر هيتشنز		60.7279
6	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		50.5991
7	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		41.8077
8	Norwegian (no) Christopher Hitchens		41.6588
9	Korean (ko) 크리스토퍼 히친스		39.1224
10	Slovak (sk) Christopher Hitchens		37.6845

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Christopher Hitchens		24 245 073
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		621 606
3	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		559 171
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		316 521
5	Russian (ru) Хитченс, Кристофер		302 229
6	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		288 066
7	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		276 851
8	Polish (pl) Christopher Hitchens		267 472
9	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		214 095
10	Swedish (sv) Christopher Hitchens		186 007

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) Christopher Hitchens		74 448
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		1 843
3	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		1 352
4	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		1 314
5	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		1 112
6	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		919
7	Russian (ru) Хитченс, Кристофер		883
8	Polish (pl) Christopher Hitchens		634
9	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		537
10	Persian (fa) کریستوفر هیچنز		527

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Christopher Hitchens		1 892
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		165
3	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		147
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		138
5	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		75
6	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		71
7	Norwegian (no) Christopher Hitchens		66
8	Persian (fa) کریستوفر هیچنز		63
9	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		61
10	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר היצ'נס		56

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) Christopher Hitchens		11
2	Catalan (ca) Christopher Hitchens		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		2
4	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		1
5	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		1
6	Romanian (ro) Christopher Hitchens		1
7	Turkish (tr) Christopher Hitchens		1
8	Chinese (zh) 克里斯托弗·希欽斯		1
9	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر هيتشنز		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кристофър Хитчънс		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information