Foundation (Asimov novel)

Quality:

Foundation - 1951 novel by Isaac Asimov. This book is the 785^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 947^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "Foundation (Asimov novel)" in English Wikipedia has 38.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 14 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 947^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 785^th most popular in books.

In July 2024 the article "Foundation (Asimov novel)" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Foundation (Asimov novel)", its content was written by 238 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 853 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Foundation is on the 947^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 785^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 267 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1335 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2556 in February 2004
• Global: #6244 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2153 in September 2021
• Global: #3250 in October 2021

There are 26 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Fundação (romance de Asimov)		39.7879
2	English (en) Foundation (Asimov novel)		38.9011
3	Romanian (ro) Fundația		33.2795
4	Croatian (hr) Zaklada (roman)		30.7433
5	Chinese (zh) 基地 (小說)		28.1559
6	Persian (fa) بنیاد (رمان)		27.9677
7	Hebrew (he) המוסד השמיימי		22.9505
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zadužbina (roman)		21.56
9	Bulgarian (bg) Фондация (роман)		20.6521
10	Russian (ru) Основание (роман)		19.6757

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foundation (Asimov novel)		2 553 578
2	French (fr) Fondation (Isaac Asimov)		903 978
3	Spanish (es) Fundación (novela)		752 073
4	Russian (ru) Основание (роман)		317 441
5	Italian (it) Fondazione (romanzo)		239 591
6	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーション (小説)		196 272
7	Chinese (zh) 基地 (小說)		119 338
8	Polish (pl) Fundacja (powieść)		113 715
9	Hungarian (hu) Alapítvány (regény)		77 903
10	Turkish (tr) Vakıf (roman)		34 797

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) Foundation (Asimov novel)		20 793
2	French (fr) Fondation (Isaac Asimov)		6 048
3	Spanish (es) Fundación (novela)		3 700
4	Russian (ru) Основание (роман)		2 044
5	Italian (it) Fondazione (romanzo)		1 506
6	Portuguese (pt) Fundação (romance de Asimov)		1 029
7	Polish (pl) Fundacja (powieść)		805
8	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーション (小説)		736
9	Hungarian (hu) Alapítvány (regény)		513
10	Chinese (zh) 基地 (小說)		461

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Foundation (Asimov novel)		238
2	French (fr) Fondation (Isaac Asimov)		99
3	Italian (it) Fondazione (romanzo)		81
4	Spanish (es) Fundación (novela)		71
5	Hungarian (hu) Alapítvány (regény)		41
6	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーション (小説)		31
7	Hebrew (he) המוסד השמיימי		27
8	Russian (ru) Основание (роман)		26
9	Polish (pl) Fundacja (powieść)		23
10	Catalan (ca) La Fundació		22

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) Foundation (Asimov novel)		7
2	Persian (fa) بنیاد (رمان)		1
3	Hebrew (he) המוסד השמיימי		1
4	Polish (pl) Fundacja (powieść)		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Фондация (роман)		0
6	Catalan (ca) La Fundació		0
7	Czech (cs) Nadace (kniha)		0
8	Spanish (es) Fundación (novela)		0
9	Estonian (et) Asum (romaan)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Säätiö (romaani)		0

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

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