Jacob the Liar

Jacob the Liar - novel by Jurek Becker (1969). This book is the 4472^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Jacob the Liar” in English Wikipedia has 17.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Jacob the Liar”, its content was written by 52 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 325 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Jacob the Liar is on the 4472^nd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 22 times in English Wikipedia and cited 105 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #59181 in December 2005
• Global: #23480 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #271882 in May 2011
• Global: #99472 in November 2008

There are 9 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	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		40.5995
2	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		32.4383
3	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		32.2899
4	English (en) Jacob the Liar		17.3103
5	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		14.5121
6	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		12.1084
7	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		8.5985
8	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		4.0042
9	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		3.0806

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Jacob the Liar" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		936 686
2	English (en) Jacob the Liar		208 018
3	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		39 885
4	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		12 045
5	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		10 293
6	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		5 059
7	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		1 266
8	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		950
9	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		359

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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 "Jacob the Liar" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		1 621
2	English (en) Jacob the Liar		807
3	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		62
4	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		56
5	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		50
6	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		36
7	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		20
8	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		18
9	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		180
2	English (en) Jacob the Liar		52
3	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		36
4	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		32
5	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		12
6	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		5
7	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		3
8	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		3
9	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		2

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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 "Jacob the Liar" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		1
2	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		0
3	English (en) Jacob the Liar		0
4	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		0
5	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		0
6	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		0
7	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		0
9	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		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 "Jacob the Liar" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Jakob der Lügner		41
2	English (en) Jacob the Liar		22
3	Hebrew (he) יעקב השקרן		16
4	French (fr) Jakob le menteur (roman)		8
5	Russian (ru) Якоб-лжец (роман)		8
6	Hungarian (hu) Hazudós Jakab (regény)		4
7	Persian (fa) یعقوب کذاب		3
8	Georgian (ka) მატყუარა იაკობი		2
9	Spanish (es) Jakob el mentiroso		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Jakob der Lügner
en	English Jacob the Liar
es	Spanish Jakob el mentiroso
fa	Persian یعقوب کذاب
fr	French Jakob le menteur (roman)
he	Hebrew יעקב השקרן
hu	Hungarian Hazudós Jakab (regény)
ka	Georgian მატყუარა იაკობი
ru	Russian Якоб-лжец (роман)

Best Rank

English: #271882 05.2011

Global: #99472 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #59181 12.2005

Global: #23480 05.2005

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