The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene - 1976 essay by Richard Dawkins. This book is the 575^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 742^nd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Selfish Gene” in English Wikipedia has 59.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.58 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Selfish Gene” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Selfish Gene”, its content was written by 271 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1163 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Selfish Gene is on the 742^nd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 575^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 180 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1124 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #94 in March 2002
• Global: #122 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20047 in November 2016
• Global: #26271 in November 2016

There are 36 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 Selfish Gene		59.2498
2	Japanese (ja) 利己的遺伝子		37.4036
3	Korean (ko) 이기적 유전자		32.1313
4	Arabic (ar) الجين الأناني		29.9048
5	Chinese (zh) 自私的基因		27.4986
6	Uzbek (uz) Egoist gen		27.468
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Det egoistiske genet		27.1696
8	French (fr) Le Gène égoïste		24.7005
9	Russian (ru) Эгоистичный ген		23.6936
10	Polish (pl) Samolubny gen		22.0203

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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 Selfish Gene" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Selfish Gene		3 833 296
2	Spanish (es) El gen egoísta		1 073 159
3	Japanese (ja) 利己的遺伝子		635 590
4	Russian (ru) Эгоистичный ген		536 922
5	Korean (ko) 이기적 유전자		529 457
6	German (de) Das egoistische Gen		270 875
7	Portuguese (pt) O Gene Egoísta		270 661
8	Chinese (zh) 自私的基因		259 193
9	French (fr) Le Gène égoïste		230 000
10	Italian (it) Il gene egoista		216 919

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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 Selfish Gene" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Selfish Gene		12 720
2	Japanese (ja) 利己的遺伝子		2 670
3	Russian (ru) Эгоистичный ген		1 758
4	Spanish (es) El gen egoísta		1 735
5	Korean (ko) 이기적 유전자		1 586
6	Chinese (zh) 自私的基因		992
7	Italian (it) Il gene egoista		970
8	French (fr) Le Gène égoïste		872
9	Portuguese (pt) O Gene Egoísta		767
10	German (de) Das egoistische Gen		736

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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 Selfish Gene" 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 Selfish Gene		271
2	German (de) Das egoistische Gen		90
3	Spanish (es) El gen egoísta		78
4	French (fr) Le Gène égoïste		67
5	Russian (ru) Эгоистичный ген		57
6	Japanese (ja) 利己的遺伝子		51
7	Dutch (nl) The Selfish Gene		48
8	Hungarian (hu) Az önző gén		47
9	Korean (ko) 이기적 유전자		43
10	Portuguese (pt) O Gene Egoísta		40

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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 Selfish Gene" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Selfish Gene		4
2	Arabic (ar) الجين الأناني		1
3	Spanish (es) El gen egoísta		1
4	Catalan (ca) El gen egoista		0
5	Czech (cs) Sobecký gen (kniha)		0
6	German (de) Das egoistische Gen		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Egoisma geno		0
8	Estonian (et) Isekas geen		0
9	Persian (fa) ژن خودخواه		0
10	Finnish (fi) Geenin itsekkyys		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 Selfish Gene" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Selfish Gene		180
2	French (fr) Le Gène égoïste		103
3	Japanese (ja) 利己的遺伝子		75
4	Spanish (es) El gen egoísta		68
5	Portuguese (pt) O Gene Egoísta		68
6	Persian (fa) ژن خودخواه		51
7	Russian (ru) Эгоистичный ген		51
8	German (de) Das egoistische Gen		49
9	Hebrew (he) הגן האנוכיי		43
10	Polish (pl) Samolubny gen		43

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الجين الأناني
ca	Catalan El gen egoista
cs	Czech Sobecký gen (kniha)
de	German Das egoistische Gen
en	English The Selfish Gene
eo	Esperanto Egoisma geno
es	Spanish El gen egoísta
et	Estonian Isekas geen
fa	Persian ژن خودخواه
fi	Finnish Geenin itsekkyys
fr	French Le Gène égoïste
gl	Galician The Selfish Gene
he	Hebrew הגן האנוכיי
hi	Hindi द सेल्फिश जीन
hu	Hungarian Az önző gén
hy	Armenian Էգոիստական գեն
id	Indonesian The Selfish Gene
it	Italian Il gene egoista
ja	Japanese 利己的遺伝子
ko	Korean 이기적 유전자
ms	Malay The Selfish Gene
nl	Dutch The Selfish Gene
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Det egoistiske genet
no	Norwegian Det egoistiske genet
pl	Polish Samolubny gen
pt	Portuguese O Gene Egoísta
ru	Russian Эгоистичный ген
simple	Simple English The Selfish Gene
sk	Slovak Sebecký gén
sv	Swedish Den själviska genen
th	Thai ยีนเห็นแก่ตัว
tr	Turkish Gen Bencildir
uk	Ukrainian Егоїстичний ген
uz	Uzbek Egoist gen
zh	Chinese 自私的基因
zhminnan	Min Nan Kò͘-kí ê Ûi-thoân-chú

Best Rank

English: #20047 11.2016

Global: #26271 11.2016

Best Rank

English: #94 03.2002

Global: #122 03.2002

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