Exhalation (short story)

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Exhalation (short story)

Quality:

Exhalation - 2008 short story by Ted Chiang. Article “Exhalation (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Exhalation (short story)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Exhalation (short story)”, its content was written by 37 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 50 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 110 times in English Wikipedia and cited 163 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #49672 in February 2020
  • Global: #104355 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #169812 in May 2019
  • Global: #302811 in May 2019

There are 4 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
29.0183
2French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
24.9593
3English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
24.6214
4Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
12.6982
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Exhalation (short story)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
291 694
2Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
2 480
3German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
927
4French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
620
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Exhalation (short story)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
1 737
2German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
29
3French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
26
4Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Exhalation (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
37
2German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
7
3Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
5
4French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Exhalation (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
1
2German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
0
3French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
0
4Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Exhalation (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Exhalation (short story)
110
2French (fr)
Expiration (nouvelle)
26
3German (de)
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
23
4Hungarian (hu)
Kilégzés (novella)
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Ausatmung (Kurzgeschichte)
enEnglish
Exhalation (short story)
frFrench
Expiration (nouvelle)
huHungarian
Kilégzés (novella)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#169812
05.2019
Global:
#302811
05.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#49672
02.2020
Global:
#104355
02.2020

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Exhalation from Wikipedia articles about Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang, Exhalation, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate. Whereas reading the article about Exhalation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang, Second law of thermodynamics, Epistolary novel and Heat death of the universe.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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