The Citadel (novel)

The Citadel - 1937 novel by A.J. Cronin. This book is the 6266^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Citadel (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 27.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.44 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.

In June 2025 the article “The Citadel (novel)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Citadel (novel)”, its content was written by 90 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 166 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Citadel is on the 6266^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 113 times in English Wikipedia and cited 155 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19556 in August 2007
• Global: #63347 in August 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #167411 in November 2017
• Global: #227045 in September 2013

There are 6 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) The Citadel (novel)		27.3488
2	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		26.892
3	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		5.9371
4	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		4.6132
5	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		4.0883
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		2.1459

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Citadel (novel)		620 545
2	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		143 134
3	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		49 999
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		23 827
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		5 264
6	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		4 007

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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 "The Citadel (novel)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Citadel (novel)		2 758
2	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		438
3	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		301
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		117
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		29
6	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		14

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

Language versions of the article "The Citadel (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) The Citadel (novel)		90
2	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		30
3	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		25
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		9
5	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		7
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		5

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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 "The Citadel (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Citadel (novel)		1
2	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		0
3	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		0
4	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		0
5	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		0
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		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 "The Citadel (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Citadel (novel)		113
2	French (fr) La Citadelle (roman)		13
3	Italian (it) La cittadella (romanzo)		13
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cidadela		8
5	Persian (fa) دژ (رمان)		4
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Citadel (roman)		4

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#	Language	Value
en	English The Citadel (novel)
fa	Persian دژ (رمان)
fr	French La Citadelle (roman)
it	Italian La cittadella (romanzo)
pt	Portuguese A Cidadela
sh	Serbo-Croatian The Citadel (roman)

Best Rank

English: #167411 11.2017

Global: #227045 09.2013

Best Rank

English: #19556 08.2007

Global: #63347 08.2007

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