The Man on the Balcony

The Man on the Balcony - novel by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. Article “The Man on the Balcony” in English Wikipedia has 14.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Man on the Balcony”, its content was written by 29 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in English Wikipedia and cited 239 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #200947 in May 2019
• Global: #94184 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #952882 in December 2021
• Global: #858826 in July 2009

There are 9 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	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (roman)		18.1788
2	English (en) The Man on the Balcony		14.3651
3	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		7.5829
4	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		5.474
5	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		3.0807
6	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		2.558
7	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		2.0681
8	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		2.0364
9	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		1.1689

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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 Man on the Balcony" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man on the Balcony		48 445
2	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (roman)		38 713
3	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		17 871
4	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		7 686
5	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		6 713
6	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		6 511
7	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		6 095
8	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		5 416
9	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		1 648

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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 Man on the Balcony" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man on the Balcony		227
2	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		182
3	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (roman)		146
4	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		27
5	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		24
6	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		23
7	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		20
8	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		11
9	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		10

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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 Man on the Balcony" 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 Man on the Balcony		29
2	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		21
3	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (roman)		17
4	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		16
5	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		15
6	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		15
7	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		12
8	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		5
9	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		4

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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 Man on the Balcony" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		1
2	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		0
3	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		0
4	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		0
5	English (en) The Man on the Balcony		0
6	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		0
7	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		0
8	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		0
9	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (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 Man on the Balcony" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Swedish (sv) Mannen på balkongen (roman)		93
2	English (en) The Man on the Balcony		50
3	Norwegian (no) Mannen på balkongen		34
4	Danish (da) Manden på balkonen		20
5	German (de) Der Mann auf dem Balkon		18
6	Czech (cs) Muž na balkóně		8
7	Italian (it) L'uomo al balcone		7
8	Dutch (nl) De man op het balkon		5
9	Japanese (ja) バルコニーの男		4

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Muž na balkóně
da	Danish Manden på balkonen
de	German Der Mann auf dem Balkon
en	English The Man on the Balcony
it	Italian L'uomo al balcone
ja	Japanese バルコニーの男
nl	Dutch De man op het balkon
no	Norwegian Mannen på balkongen
sv	Swedish Mannen på balkongen (roman)

Best Rank

English: #952882 12.2021

Global: #858826 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #200947 05.2019

Global: #94184 10.2009

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