Josephus

Josephus - Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100). This person is the 5570^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Josephus” in English Wikipedia has 90.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 111 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Josephus” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9282^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Josephus”, its content was written by 693 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7883^rd place).

Josephus is on the 5570^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2473 times in English Wikipedia and cited 16157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #194 in February 2002
• Global: #264 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14850 in April 2015
• Global: #10907 in April 2025

There are 48 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, 2026 (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) Flavius Josephus		100
2	English (en) Josephus		90.4545
3	Latin (la) Flavius Iosephus		86.3391
4	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		86.1538
5	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		67.997
6	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		65.5994
7	Norwegian (no) Josefus		64.1108
8	Persian (fa) یوسف فلاوی		59.177
9	Slovenian (sl) Jožef Flavij		51.3467
10	Romanian (ro) Iosephus Flavius		51.1628

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Josephus		7 612 313
2	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		1 744 043
3	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		1 179 508
4	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		1 092 832
5	German (de) Flavius Josephus		905 530
6	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		811 021
7	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		723 065
8	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		672 564
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		442 249
10	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus		225 754

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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 "Josephus" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Josephus		30 087
2	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		4 410
3	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		4 299
4	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		3 265
5	German (de) Flavius Josephus		3 137
6	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		3 005
7	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		2 039
8	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		2 002
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		1 319
10	Japanese (ja) フラウィウス・ヨセフス		927

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Josephus		693
2	German (de) Flavius Josephus		267
3	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		247
4	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		203
5	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		144
6	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		132
7	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		129
8	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus		111
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		74
10	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		60

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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 "Josephus" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Josephus		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) İosif Flavi		2
3	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		2
4	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		2
5	Arabic (ar) يوسيفوس فلافيوس		1
6	German (de) Flavius Josephus		1
7	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		1
8	Basque (eu) Flavio Josefo		1
9	Persian (fa) یوسف فلاوی		1
10	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		1

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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 "Josephus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Josephus		2 473
2	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		1 324
3	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		975
4	German (de) Flavius Josephus		965
5	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		892
6	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		872
7	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		777
8	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		761
9	Indonesian (id) Flavius Yosefus		524
10	Catalan (ca) Flavi Josep		418

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic يوسيفوس فلافيوس
az	Azerbaijani İosif Flavi
be	Belarusian Іосіф Флавій
bg	Bulgarian Йосиф Флавий
ca	Catalan Flavi Josep
cs	Czech Flavius Iosephus
da	Danish Josefus
de	German Flavius Josephus
el	Greek Ιώσηπος Φλάβιος
en	English Josephus
eo	Esperanto Jozefo Flavio
es	Spanish Flavio Josefo
et	Estonian Flavius Josephus
eu	Basque Flavio Josefo
fa	Persian یوسف فلاوی
fi	Finnish Josephus
fr	French Flavius Josèphe
gl	Galician Flavio Xosefo
he	Hebrew יוסף בן מתתיהו
hr	Croatian Josip Flavije
hu	Hungarian Iosephus Flavius
hy	Armenian Հովսեփոս Փլավիոս
id	Indonesian Flavius Yosefus
it	Italian Flavio Giuseppe
ja	Japanese フラウィウス・ヨセフス
ka	Georgian იოსებ ფლავიუსი
ko	Korean 플라비우스 요세푸스
la	Latin Flavius Iosephus
lt	Lithuanian Juozapas Flavijus
nl	Dutch Flavius Josephus
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Josefus
no	Norwegian Josefus
pl	Polish Józef Flawiusz
pt	Portuguese Flávio Josefo
ro	Romanian Iosephus Flavius
ru	Russian Иосиф Флавий
sh	Serbo-Croatian Josip Flavije
simple	Simple English Josephus
sk	Slovak Flavius Iosephus
sl	Slovenian Jožef Flavij
sr	Serbian Јосиф Флавије
sv	Swedish Josefus
ta	Tamil ஜொசிஃபஸ்
th	Thai โยเซพุส
tr	Turkish Josephus
uk	Ukrainian Йосип Флавій
ur	Urdu یوسیفس
zh	Chinese 弗拉維奧·約瑟夫斯

Best Rank

English: #14850 04.2015

Global: #10907 04.2025

Best Rank

English: #194 02.2002

Global: #264 02.2002

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