The Decay of the Angel

The Decay of the Angel - novel by Yukio Mishima. Article “The Decay of the Angel” in English Wikipedia has 29.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Decay of the Angel”, its content was written by 40 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 103 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 51 times in English Wikipedia and cited 141 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #91947 in January 2013
• Global: #36140 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #347066 in February 2023
• Global: #432146 in February 2023

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	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		68.4571
2	English (en) The Decay of the Angel		29.1047
3	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		17.8908
4	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		14.34
5	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		12.8136
6	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		10.4731

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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 Decay of the Angel" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Decay of the Angel		187 148
2	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		64 037
3	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		24 553
4	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		14 179
5	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		6 854
6	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		4 699

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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 Decay of the Angel" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Decay of the Angel		1 515
2	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		474
3	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		279
4	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		126
5	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		99
6	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		85

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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 Decay of the Angel" 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 Decay of the Angel		40
2	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		29
3	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		15
4	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		14
5	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		3
6	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		2

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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 Decay of the Angel" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		1
2	English (en) The Decay of the Angel		0
3	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		0
4	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		0
5	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		0
6	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		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 Decay of the Angel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Decay of the Angel		51
2	German (de) Die Todesmale des Engels		33
3	Italian (it) La decomposizione dell'angelo		33
4	Chinese (zh) 天人五衰 (小說)		16
5	Spanish (es) La corrupción de un ángel		5
6	French (fr) L'Ange en décomposition		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Die Todesmale des Engels
en	English The Decay of the Angel
es	Spanish La corrupción de un ángel
fr	French L'Ange en décomposition
it	Italian La decomposizione dell'angelo
zh	Chinese 天人五衰 (小說)

Best Rank

English: #347066 02.2023

Global: #432146 02.2023

Best Rank

English: #91947 01.2013

Global: #36140 09.2021

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