The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge - 1944 novel by William Somerset Maugham. This book is the 1883^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Razor's Edge” in English Wikipedia has 24.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Razor's Edge” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Razor's Edge”, its content was written by 138 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Razor's Edge is on the 1883^rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 106 times in English Wikipedia and cited 248 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8053 in September 2002
• Global: #10707 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37643 in July 2011
• Global: #67050 in July 2011

There are 12 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	Greek (el) Στην κόψη του ξυραφιού (μυθιστόρημα)		33.0822
2	English (en) The Razor's Edge		24.7673
3	Ukrainian (uk) На жалі бритви		19.7319
4	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (roman)		14.3307
5	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		12.958
6	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		12.5197
7	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		8.059
8	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		5.2843
9	Chinese (zh) 刀鋒 (小說)		4.397
10	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		4.3221

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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 Razor's Edge" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Razor's Edge		2 202 790
2	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		243 747
3	Spanish (es) The Razor's Edge		106 071
4	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		72 484
5	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		69 947
6	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		58 614
7	Chinese (zh) 刀鋒 (小說)		51 300
8	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		44 944
9	Ukrainian (uk) На жалі бритви		5 094
10	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (roman)		3 302

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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 Razor's Edge" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Razor's Edge		8 897
2	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		2 493
3	Chinese (zh) 刀鋒 (小說)		654
4	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		485
5	Spanish (es) The Razor's Edge		458
6	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		312
7	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		266
8	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (roman)		239
9	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		188
10	Ukrainian (uk) На жалі бритви		118

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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 Razor's Edge" 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 Razor's Edge		138
2	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		41
3	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		30
4	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		18
5	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		12
6	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		12
7	Chinese (zh) 刀鋒 (小說)		12
8	Ukrainian (uk) На жалі бритви		10
9	Spanish (es) The Razor's Edge		7
10	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (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 Razor's Edge" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Razor's Edge		1
2	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		0
3	Greek (el) Στην κόψη του ξυραφιού (μυθιστόρημα)		0
4	Spanish (es) The Razor's Edge		0
5	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		0
6	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (roman)		0
7	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		0
9	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		0
10	Turkish (tr) The Razor's Edge		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 Razor's Edge" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Razor's Edge		106
2	French (fr) Le Fil du rasoir (roman)		30
3	Spanish (es) The Razor's Edge		25
4	Russian (ru) Остриё бритвы		19
5	Italian (it) Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)		13
6	German (de) Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)		10
7	Portuguese (pt) The Razor's Edge		10
8	Persian (fa) لبه تیغ (رمان)		9
9	Chinese (zh) 刀鋒 (小說)		8
10	Ukrainian (uk) На жалі бритви		7

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#	Language	Value
de	German Auf Messers Schneide (Roman)
el	Greek Στην κόψη του ξυραφιού (μυθιστόρημα)
en	English The Razor's Edge
es	Spanish The Razor's Edge
fa	Persian لبه تیغ (رمان)
fr	French Le Fil du rasoir (roman)
it	Italian Il filo del rasoio (Somerset Maugham)
pt	Portuguese The Razor's Edge
ru	Russian Остриё бритвы
tr	Turkish The Razor's Edge
uk	Ukrainian На жалі бритви
zh	Chinese 刀鋒 (小說)

Best Rank

English: #37643 07.2011

Global: #67050 07.2011

Best Rank

English: #8053 09.2002

Global: #10707 09.2002

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