Red Dragon (novel)

Red Dragon - 1981 novel by Thomas Harris. This book is the 483^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 509^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Red Dragon (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 25.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.35 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Red Dragon (novel)” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Red Dragon (novel)”, its content was written by 175 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Red Dragon is on the 509^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 483^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 110 times in English Wikipedia and cited 554 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19936 in April 2013
• Global: #18877 in April 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7738 in July 2015
• Global: #10848 in July 2015

There are 25 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	Chinese (zh) 紅色龍		27.2036
2	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		25.5961
3	Greek (el) Κόκκινος δράκος (βιβλίο)		22.7849
4	Swedish (sv) Röda draken		17.8795
5	Serbian (sr) Црвени Змај (роман)		17.714
6	Finnish (fi) Punainen lohikäärme (romaani)		13.7146
7	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		13.6984
8	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		12.9408
9	Persian (fa) اژدهای سرخ (رمان)		12.7372
10	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		12.7163

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Red Dragon (novel)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		5 207 461
2	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		1 031 896
3	German (de) Roter Drache		977 943
4	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		909 965
5	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		659 694
6	French (fr) Dragon rouge (roman)		380 827
7	Italian (it) Il delitto della terza luna		235 557
8	Polish (pl) Czerwony smok (powieść)		158 752
9	Persian (fa) اژدهای سرخ (رمان)		51 352
10	Dutch (nl) Red Dragon (boek)		47 094

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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 "Red Dragon (novel)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		22 303
2	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		3 670
3	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		1 948
4	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		1 718
5	Italian (it) Il delitto della terza luna		1 376
6	German (de) Roter Drache		1 301
7	French (fr) Dragon rouge (roman)		1 138
8	Chinese (zh) 紅色龍		607
9	Polish (pl) Czerwony smok (powieść)		374
10	Vietnamese (vi) Rồng đỏ (tiểu thuyết)		354

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		175
2	German (de) Roter Drache		59
3	French (fr) Dragon rouge (roman)		49
4	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		39
5	Norwegian (no) Den røde drage		25
6	Dutch (nl) Red Dragon (boek)		24
7	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		23
8	Italian (it) Il delitto della terza luna		23
9	Hungarian (hu) Vörös sárkány (regény)		19
10	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		17

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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 "Red Dragon (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		4
2	Ukrainian (uk) Червоний дракон		2
3	Greek (el) Κόκκινος δράκος (βιβλίο)		1
4	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		1
5	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		1
6	Arabic (ar) التنين الأحمر (رواية)		0
7	German (de) Roter Drache		0
8	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		0
9	Persian (fa) اژدهای سرخ (رمان)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Punainen lohikäärme (romaani)		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 "Red Dragon (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Red Dragon (novel)		110
2	Japanese (ja) レッド・ドラゴン		39
3	German (de) Roter Drache		37
4	Italian (it) Il delitto della terza luna		34
5	French (fr) Dragon rouge (roman)		32
6	Korean (ko) 레드 드래곤		30
7	Ukrainian (uk) Червоний дракон		26
8	Russian (ru) Красный дракон (роман)		25
9	Norwegian (no) Den røde drage		23
10	Spanish (es) El dragón rojo (novela)		19

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التنين الأحمر (رواية)
de	German Roter Drache
el	Greek Κόκκινος δράκος (βιβλίο)
en	English Red Dragon (novel)
es	Spanish El dragón rojo (novela)
fa	Persian اژدهای سرخ (رمان)
fi	Finnish Punainen lohikäärme (romaani)
fr	French Dragon rouge (roman)
he	Hebrew הדרקון האדום (ספר)
hu	Hungarian Vörös sárkány (regény)
it	Italian Il delitto della terza luna
ja	Japanese レッド・ドラゴン
ko	Korean 레드 드래곤
ms	Malay Red Dragon
nl	Dutch Red Dragon (boek)
no	Norwegian Den røde drage
pl	Polish Czerwony smok (powieść)
ro	Romanian Dragonul roșu (roman)
ru	Russian Красный дракон (роман)
sr	Serbian Црвени Змај (роман)
sv	Swedish Röda draken
uk	Ukrainian Червоний дракон
ur	Urdu لال اژدہا (ناول)
vi	Vietnamese Rồng đỏ (tiểu thuyết)
zh	Chinese 紅色龍

Best Rank

English: #7738 07.2015

Global: #10848 07.2015

Best Rank

English: #19936 04.2013

Global: #18877 04.2013

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