Literary criticism

Literary criticism - study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Article “Literary criticism” in English Wikipedia has 54 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 20 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Literary criticism” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Literary criticism”, its content was written by 309 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3605 times in English Wikipedia (7454^th place) and cited 44088 times in all languages (3627^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1710 in May 2002
• Global: #2732 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29753 in November 2008
• Global: #22566 in November 2014

There are 47 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	Hebrew (he) ביקורת ספרות		77.101
2	Malay (ms) Kritikan sastera		71.6086
3	Indonesian (id) Kritik sastra		71.3931
4	English (en) Literary criticism		53.9719
5	German (de) Literaturkritik		41.2645
6	Spanish (es) Crítica literaria		37.8912
7	Chinese (zh) 文学批评		35.5969
8	Latin (la) Critica litterarum		28.1862
9	Norwegian (no) Litteraturkritikk		26.11
10	Esperanto (eo) Literatura kritiko		25.6336

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Literary criticism		4 389 355
2	Spanish (es) Crítica literaria		1 439 842
3	Arabic (ar) نقد أدبي		733 785
4	French (fr) Critique littéraire		485 145
5	Russian (ru) Литературная критика		350 895
6	Japanese (ja) 文芸評論		332 247
7	Indonesian (id) Kritik sastra		315 357
8	German (de) Literaturkritik		279 283
9	Italian (it) Critica letteraria		247 149
10	Hindi (hi) हिंदी आलोचना		203 589

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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 "Literary criticism" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Literary criticism		10 029
2	Spanish (es) Crítica literaria		1 242
3	Japanese (ja) 文芸評論		997
4	French (fr) Critique littéraire		886
5	Chinese (zh) 文学批评		657
6	Italian (it) Critica letteraria		576
7	Russian (ru) Литературная критика		556
8	Arabic (ar) نقد أدبي		526
9	German (de) Literaturkritik		364
10	Portuguese (pt) Crítica literária		323

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Literary criticism		309
2	German (de) Literaturkritik		139
3	Spanish (es) Crítica literaria		89
4	Italian (it) Critica letteraria		82
5	French (fr) Critique littéraire		73
6	Japanese (ja) 文芸評論		70
7	Arabic (ar) نقد أدبي		46
8	Russian (ru) Литературная критика		46
9	Dutch (nl) Literaire kritiek		44
10	Polish (pl) Krytyka literacka		38

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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 "Literary criticism" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Литературная критика		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Ədəbi tənqid		1
3	German (de) Literaturkritik		1
4	English (en) Literary criticism		1
5	Basque (eu) Literatura kritika		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kirjallisuuskritiikki		1
7	French (fr) Critique littéraire		1
8	Polish (pl) Krytyka literacka		1
9	Arabic (ar) نقد أدبي		0
10	Belarusian (be) Літаратурная крытыка		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 "Literary criticism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 文芸評論		11 691
2	French (fr) Critique littéraire		5 060
3	English (en) Literary criticism		3 605
4	Spanish (es) Crítica literaria		3 168
5	Arabic (ar) نقد أدبي		2 705
6	Italian (it) Critica letteraria		1 990
7	Swedish (sv) Litteraturkritik		1 448
8	German (de) Literaturkritik		1 049
9	Persian (fa) نقد ادبی		1 021
10	Catalan (ca) Crítica literària		997

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقد أدبي
az	Azerbaijani Ədəbi tənqid
be	Belarusian Літаратурная крытыка
bg	Bulgarian Литературна критика
ca	Catalan Crítica literària
cs	Czech Literární kritika
da	Danish Litteraturanalyse
de	German Literaturkritik
el	Greek Λογοτεχνική ανάλυση
en	English Literary criticism
eo	Esperanto Literatura kritiko
es	Spanish Crítica literaria
et	Estonian Kirjanduskriitika
eu	Basque Literatura kritika
fa	Persian نقد ادبی
fi	Finnish Kirjallisuuskritiikki
fr	French Critique littéraire
gl	Galician Crítica literaria
he	Hebrew ביקורת ספרות
hi	Hindi हिंदी आलोचना
hr	Croatian Književna kritika
hy	Armenian Գրաքննադատություն
id	Indonesian Kritik sastra
it	Italian Critica letteraria
ja	Japanese 文芸評論
kk	Kazakh Әдеби сын
ko	Korean 문학평론
la	Latin Critica litterarum
ms	Malay Kritikan sastera
nl	Dutch Literaire kritiek
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Litteraturkritikk
no	Norwegian Litteraturkritikk
pl	Polish Krytyka literacka
pt	Portuguese Crítica literária
ro	Romanian Critică literară
ru	Russian Литературная критика
sh	Serbo-Croatian Književna kritika
sk	Slovak Literárna kritika
sl	Slovenian Literarna kritika
sr	Serbian Књижевна критика
sv	Swedish Litteraturkritik
tr	Turkish Edebi eleştiri
uk	Ukrainian Літературна критика
ur	Urdu ادبی تنقید
uz	Uzbek Tanqid (faoliyat)
vi	Vietnamese Phê bình văn học
zh	Chinese 文学批评

Best Rank

English: #29753 11.2008

Global: #22566 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #1710 05.2002

Global: #2732 05.2002

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