The Laughing Man (short story)

The Laughing Man - Short story by J. D. Salinger. This book is the 7591^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Laughing Man (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 17.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Laughing Man (short story)”, its content was written by 66 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 109 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Laughing Man is on the 7591^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 70 times in English Wikipedia and cited 158 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15274 in September 2013
• Global: #61903 in September 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #100453 in January 2010
• Global: #161677 in January 2010

There are 8 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 Laughing Man (short story)		17.6538
2	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		16.9702
3	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		15.4054
4	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		12.086
5	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		9.8543
6	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		8.6794
7	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		5.456
8	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		1.0132

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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 Laughing Man (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Laughing Man (short story)		553 516
2	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		85 929
3	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		15 687
4	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		12 960
5	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		5 509
6	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		4 985
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		2 938
8	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		376

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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 Laughing Man (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Laughing Man (short story)		1 588
2	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		376
3	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		101
4	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		49
5	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		28
6	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		27
7	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		14
8	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		13

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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 Laughing Man (short story)" 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 Laughing Man (short story)		66
2	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		17
3	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		10
4	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		8
5	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		3
6	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		2
7	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		2
8	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		1

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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 Laughing Man (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		0
2	English (en) The Laughing Man (short story)		0
3	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		0
4	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		0
5	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		0
6	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		0
7	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		0
8	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		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 Laughing Man (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Laughing Man (short story)		70
2	Persian (fa) مرد خندان		26
3	French (fr) L'Homme hilare		21
4	Japanese (ja) 笑い男 (小説)		21
5	Chinese (zh) 笑面人 (短篇小说)		16
6	Polish (pl) Człowiek Śmiechu		2
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)		1
8	Armenian (hy) Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الرجل الضاحك (قصة قصيرة)
en	English The Laughing Man (short story)
fa	Persian مرد خندان
fr	French L'Homme hilare
hy	Armenian Մարդը, որը ծիծաղում էր
ja	Japanese 笑い男 (小説)
pl	Polish Człowiek Śmiechu
zh	Chinese 笑面人 (短篇小说)

Best Rank

English: #100453 01.2010

Global: #161677 01.2010

Best Rank

English: #15274 09.2013

Global: #61903 09.2013

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