Native Son

Quality:

Native Son - 1940 novel by Richard Wright. This book is the 1515^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 851^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Native Son” in English Wikipedia has 57.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.04 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 851^st most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1515^th most popular in books.

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

Since the creation of article “Native Son”, its content was written by 234 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Native Son is on the 851^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 1515^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 118 times in English Wikipedia and cited 175 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3183 in July 2002
• Global: #4442 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4529 in April 2019
• Global: #13405 in April 2019

There are 5 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	English (en) Native Son		57.8444
2	Spanish (es) Hijo nativo		34.225
3	Italian (it) Paura (Richard Wright)		23.2258
4	German (de) Native Son (Roman)		21.1769
5	French (fr) Un enfant du pays		9.5454

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Native Son		3 363 080
2	German (de) Native Son (Roman)		67 937
3	French (fr) Un enfant du pays		52 339
4	Spanish (es) Hijo nativo		47 841
5	Italian (it) Paura (Richard Wright)		28 275

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) Native Son		10 990
2	German (de) Native Son (Roman)		344
3	French (fr) Un enfant du pays		298
4	Spanish (es) Hijo nativo		296
5	Italian (it) Paura (Richard Wright)		125

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Native Son		234
2	German (de) Native Son (Roman)		43
3	French (fr) Un enfant du pays		39
4	Italian (it) Paura (Richard Wright)		35
5	Spanish (es) Hijo nativo		7

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) Native Son		1
2	German (de) Native Son (Roman)		0
3	Spanish (es) Hijo nativo		0
4	French (fr) Un enfant du pays		0
5	Italian (it) Paura (Richard Wright)		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information