Evil (novel)

Evil - 1981 novel by Jan Guillou. This book is the 6006^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Evil (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.21 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Evil (novel)”, its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Evil is on the 6006^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in English Wikipedia and cited 97 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #96209 in July 2010
• Global: #81683 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #342948 in January 2020
• Global: #48206 in November 2023

There are 6 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	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		24.9818
2	English (en) Evil (novel)		22.9099
3	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		22.2955
4	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		17.8654
5	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		7.1228
6	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		0.4583

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Evil (novel)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		636 230
2	English (en) Evil (novel)		167 126
3	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		49 051
4	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		16 992
5	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		11 236
6	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		7 748

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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 "Evil (novel)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Evil (novel)		844
2	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		768
3	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		100
4	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		97
5	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		96
6	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		43

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		67
2	English (en) Evil (novel)		56
3	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		16
4	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		9
5	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		4
6	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		1

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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 "Evil (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		0
2	English (en) Evil (novel)		0
3	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		0
4	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		0
5	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		0
6	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		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 "Evil (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Swedish (sv) Ondskan		58
2	English (en) Evil (novel)		17
3	Norwegian (no) Ondskapen		13
4	Portuguese (pt) A Fábrica da Violência		4
5	Danish (da) Ondskaben (bog)		3
6	French (fr) La Fabrique de violence		2

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Ondskaben (bog)
en	English Evil (novel)
fr	French La Fabrique de violence
no	Norwegian Ondskapen
pt	Portuguese A Fábrica da Violência
sv	Swedish Ondskan

Best Rank

English: #342948 01.2020

Global: #48206 11.2023

Best Rank

English: #96209 07.2010

Global: #81683 04.2004

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