The Outsider (King novel)

Quality:

The Outsider - 2018 horror novel by Stephen King. This book is the 937^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 648^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Outsider (King novel)” in English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 648^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 937^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Outsider (King novel)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Outsider (King novel)”, its content was written by 93 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Outsider is on the 648^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 937^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 371 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1513 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2036 in January 2020
• Global: #9854 in January 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #177 in January 2020
• Global: #472 in January 2020

There are 13 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) Der Outsider		30.2128
2	Hebrew (he) זר (ספר)		28.4635
3	Romanian (ro) The Outsider		25.4193
4	English (en) The Outsider (King novel)		23.2405
5	Spanish (es) El visitante (novela)		21.8013
6	French (fr) L'Outsider (roman)		21.7308
7	Polish (pl) Outsider (powieść)		20.2079
8	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان کینگ)		19.3276
9	Ukrainian (uk) Аутсайдер (роман)		15.3946
10	Hungarian (hu) A kívülálló (Stephen King-regény)		10.031

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Outsider (King novel)		4 260 740
2	Spanish (es) El visitante (novela)		380 175
3	Russian (ru) Чужак (роман)		316 318
4	French (fr) L'Outsider (roman)		202 746
5	Italian (it) The Outsider (Stephen King)		175 375
6	German (de) Der Outsider		165 515
7	Ukrainian (uk) Аутсайдер (роман)		31 840
8	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان کینگ)		16 887
9	Hungarian (hu) A kívülálló (Stephen King-regény)		16 550
10	Polish (pl) Outsider (powieść)		7 202

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Outsider (King novel)		24 325
2	Russian (ru) Чужак (роман)		2 630
3	Spanish (es) El visitante (novela)		2 192
4	Italian (it) The Outsider (Stephen King)		1 370
5	German (de) Der Outsider		1 316
6	French (fr) L'Outsider (roman)		1 219
7	Ukrainian (uk) Аутсайдер (роман)		325
8	Polish (pl) Outsider (powieść)		199
9	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان کینگ)		110
10	Hungarian (hu) A kívülálló (Stephen King-regény)		91

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Outsider (King novel)		93
2	Italian (it) The Outsider (Stephen King)		17
3	French (fr) L'Outsider (roman)		16
4	Ukrainian (uk) Аутсайдер (роман)		15
5	German (de) Der Outsider		11
6	Russian (ru) Чужак (роман)		11
7	Spanish (es) El visitante (novela)		10
8	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان کینگ)		6
9	Hungarian (hu) A kívülálló (Stephen King-regény)		6
10	Hebrew (he) זר (ספר)		2

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Outsider (King novel)		1
2	French (fr) L'Outsider (roman)		1
3	German (de) Der Outsider		0
4	Spanish (es) El visitante (novela)		0
5	Basque (eu) The Outsider (Stephen Kingen eleberria)		0
6	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان کینگ)		0
7	Hebrew (he) זר (ספר)		0
8	Hungarian (hu) A kívülálló (Stephen King-regény)		0
9	Italian (it) The Outsider (Stephen King)		0
10	Polish (pl) Outsider (powieść)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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