The Drowned World

The Drowned World - 1962 novel by J. G. Ballard. This book is the 6163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Drowned World” in English Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Drowned World”, its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 220 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Drowned World is on the 6163^rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in English Wikipedia and cited 154 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #46901 in October 2021
• Global: #29345 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #127033 in April 2009
• Global: #177992 in April 2009

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	Hebrew (he) העולם הטובע		33.3327
2	English (en) The Drowned World		27.8084
3	German (de) The Drowned World		26.3979
4	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		19.3069
5	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		15.4452
6	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		6.4437
7	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		5.6178
8	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		4.2284
9	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		3.9953
10	Ukrainian (uk) Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)		3.4296

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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 Drowned World" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Drowned World		687 888
2	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		60 432
3	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		56 174
4	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		41 746
5	German (de) The Drowned World		6 411
6	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		5 453
7	Danish (da) Verden under vand (roman)		4 040
8	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		943
9	Ukrainian (uk) Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)		735
10	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		289

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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 Drowned World" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Drowned World		4 826
2	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		255
3	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		194
4	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		163
5	German (de) The Drowned World		73
6	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		26
7	Danish (da) Verden under vand (roman)		22
8	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		20
9	Ukrainian (uk) Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)		16
10	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		9

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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 Drowned World" 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 Drowned World		84
2	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		35
3	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		34
4	German (de) The Drowned World		18
5	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		16
6	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		12
7	Danish (da) Verden under vand (roman)		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)		5
9	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		3
10	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		3

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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 Drowned World" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		0
2	Danish (da) Verden under vand (roman)		0
3	German (de) The Drowned World		0
4	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		0
5	English (en) The Drowned World		0
6	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		0
7	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		0
8	Hebrew (he) העולם הטובע		0
9	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		0
10	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		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 Drowned World" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Drowned World		87
2	Italian (it) Il mondo sommerso		15
3	German (de) The Drowned World		12
4	French (fr) Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)		12
5	Spanish (es) El mundo sumergido		8
6	Ukrainian (uk) Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)		7
7	Arabic (ar) العالم الغريق (رواية)		4
8	Greek (el) Η Πλημμύρα		3
9	Hebrew (he) העולם הטובע		3
10	Polish (pl) Zatopiony świat		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic العالم الغريق (رواية)
da	Danish Verden under vand (roman)
de	German The Drowned World
el	Greek Η Πλημμύρα
en	English The Drowned World
es	Spanish El mundo sumergido
fr	French Le Monde englouti (J. G. Ballard)
he	Hebrew העולם הטובע
it	Italian Il mondo sommerso
pl	Polish Zatopiony świat
uk	Ukrainian Світ, що потонув (роман Балларда)

Best Rank

English: #127033 04.2009

Global: #177992 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #46901 10.2021

Global: #29345 03.2003

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