Frankenstein

Quality:

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. This book is the 45^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 34^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Frankenstein” in English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 91 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2873^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 854^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 34^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3388^th most popular in all topics.

The 2477^th most popular in AI.

The 45^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2783^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5941^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3083^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8242^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Frankenstein” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5941^st place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8242^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Frankenstein”, its content was written by 2011 registered users of English Wikipedia (854^th place) and edited by 4721 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2477^th place).

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is on the 34^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 45^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 1369 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6452 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #143 in September 2001
• Global: #170 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #263 in August 2014
• Global: #889 in August 2014

There are 50 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	French (fr) Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne		98.1614
2	German (de) Frankenstein (Roman)		97.1429
3	Basque (eu) Frankenstein		94.6043
4	Tamil (ta) பிராங்கென்ஸ்டைன் (புதினம்)		86.6667
5	English (en) Frankenstein		85.5736
6	Turkish (tr) Frankenstein		81.4479
7	Hindi (hi) फ्रैंकनस्टाइन		71.1046
8	Portuguese (pt) Frankenstein		61.8721
9	Bulgarian (bg) Франкенщайн (роман)		44.5777
10	Georgian (ka) ფრანკენშტაინი		40.8299

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Frankenstein		26 868 549
2	Spanish (es) Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo		4 282 752
3	Japanese (ja) フランケンシュタイン		2 929 736
4	German (de) Frankenstein (Roman)		2 537 806
5	Portuguese (pt) Frankenstein		2 229 831
6	French (fr) Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne		2 124 118
7	Russian (ru) Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей		1 292 831
8	Chinese (zh) 科學怪人		989 573
9	Polish (pl) Frankenstein		838 879
10	Swedish (sv) Frankenstein		723 588

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) Frankenstein		146 195
2	Spanish (es) Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo		12 485
3	Japanese (ja) フランケンシュタイン		11 134
4	German (de) Frankenstein (Roman)		10 293
5	Italian (it) Frankenstein o il moderno Prometeo		8 145
6	Russian (ru) Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей		7 634
7	French (fr) Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne		7 426
8	Portuguese (pt) Frankenstein		5 931
9	Chinese (zh) 科學怪人		4 676
10	Polish (pl) Frankenstein		2 461

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Frankenstein		2 011
2	German (de) Frankenstein (Roman)		320
3	French (fr) Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne		285
4	Italian (it) Frankenstein o il moderno Prometeo		222
5	Spanish (es) Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo		197
6	Japanese (ja) フランケンシュタイン		132
7	Portuguese (pt) Frankenstein		127
8	Dutch (nl) Frankenstein (roman)		106
9	Swedish (sv) Frankenstein		91
10	Hebrew (he) פרנקנשטיין (ספר)		84

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) Frankenstein		12
2	Italian (it) Frankenstein o il moderno Prometeo		3
3	German (de) Frankenstein (Roman)		2
4	Catalan (ca) Frankenstein o el Prometeu modern		1
5	Spanish (es) Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo		1
6	Hindi (hi) फ्रैंकनस्टाइन		1
7	Polish (pl) Frankenstein		1
8	Romanian (ro) Frankenstein (roman)		1
9	Chinese (zh) 科學怪人		1
10	Arabic (ar) فرانكنشتاين		0

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

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