The Sound of Waves

The Sound of Waves - 1954 novel by Yukio Mishima. This book is the 3241^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Sound of Waves” in English Wikipedia has 12.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.64 points.

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

Since the creation of article “The Sound of Waves”, its content was written by 95 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 272 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sound of Waves is on the 3241^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 65 times in English Wikipedia and cited 451 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11681 in November 2009
• Global: #47443 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #218572 in May 2009
• Global: #56750 in June 2013

There are 11 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	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		65.9352
2	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		26.6502
3	Chinese (zh) 潮骚		21.0093
4	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		20.1248
5	Ukrainian (uk) Звук хвиль		19.4789
6	Indonesian (id) Senandung Ombak		18.0101
7	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		15.666
8	English (en) The Sound of Waves		12.1503
9	Russian (ru) Шум прибоя		11.1579
10	Greek (el) Ο ήχος των κυμάτων		10.7289

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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 Sound of Waves" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		1 044 903
2	English (en) The Sound of Waves		398 543
3	Chinese (zh) 潮骚		122 046
4	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		54 473
5	Russian (ru) Шум прибоя		46 519
6	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		22 973
7	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		6 318
8	Persian (fa) آوای امواج		4 831
9	Greek (el) Ο ήχος των κυμάτων		487
10	Indonesian (id) Senandung Ombak		436

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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 Sound of Waves" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		5 280
2	English (en) The Sound of Waves		2 005
3	Chinese (zh) 潮骚		699
4	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		561
5	Russian (ru) Шум прибоя		382
6	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		254
7	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		123
8	Persian (fa) آوای امواج		40
9	Greek (el) Ο ήχος των κυμάτων		22
10	Ukrainian (uk) Звук хвиль		21

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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 Sound of Waves" 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 Sound of Waves		95
2	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		76
3	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		43
4	Chinese (zh) 潮骚		21
5	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		14
6	Persian (fa) آوای امواج		8
7	Greek (el) Ο ήχος των κυμάτων		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Звук хвиль		4
9	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		3
10	Indonesian (id) Senandung Ombak		2

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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 Sound of Waves" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		1
2	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		0
3	Greek (el) Ο ήχος των κυμάτων		0
4	English (en) The Sound of Waves		0
5	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		0
6	Persian (fa) آوای امواج		0
7	Indonesian (id) Senandung Ombak		0
8	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		0
9	Russian (ru) Шум прибоя		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Звук хвиль		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 Sound of Waves" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 潮騒 (小説)		262
2	English (en) The Sound of Waves		65
3	German (de) Der Klang der Wellen		35
4	Italian (it) La voce delle onde		31
5	Chinese (zh) 潮骚		28
6	Russian (ru) Шум прибоя		12
7	Persian (fa) آوای امواج		9
8	Indonesian (id) Senandung Ombak		3
9	Ukrainian (uk) Звук хвиль		3
10	Spanish (es) El rumor del oleaje		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Der Klang der Wellen
el	Greek Ο ήχος των κυμάτων
en	English The Sound of Waves
es	Spanish El rumor del oleaje
fa	Persian آوای امواج
id	Indonesian Senandung Ombak
it	Italian La voce delle onde
ja	Japanese 潮騒 (小説)
ru	Russian Шум прибоя
uk	Ukrainian Звук хвиль
zh	Chinese 潮骚

Best Rank

English: #218572 05.2009

Global: #56750 06.2013

Best Rank

English: #11681 11.2009

Global: #47443 11.2009

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