The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried - meta-fictional Vietnam War memoir by American author Tim O'Brien. This book is the 1396^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 758^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Things They Carried” in English Wikipedia has 50.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 48 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.66 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.

Since the creation of article “The Things They Carried”, its content was written by 274 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 350 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Things They Carried is on the 758^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 1396^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 53 times in English Wikipedia and cited 75 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11116 in December 2011
• Global: #14183 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29705 in May 2009
• Global: #54551 in May 2009

There are 6 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 Things They Carried		50.6183
2	French (fr) À propos de courage		20.8522
3	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		14.5544
4	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		13.3267
5	German (de) Was sie trugen		4.9999
6	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		2.052

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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 Things They Carried" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Things They Carried		3 764 803
2	German (de) Was sie trugen		29 838
3	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		18 239
4	French (fr) À propos de courage		15 240
5	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		11 659
6	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		144

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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 Things They Carried" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Things They Carried		12 764
2	German (de) Was sie trugen		102
3	French (fr) À propos de courage		75
4	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		66
5	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		65
6	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		22

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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 Things They Carried" 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 Things They Carried		274
2	German (de) Was sie trugen		47
3	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		12
4	French (fr) À propos de courage		9
5	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		6
6	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		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 Things They Carried" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		0
2	German (de) Was sie trugen		0
3	English (en) The Things They Carried		0
4	French (fr) À propos de courage		0
5	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		0
6	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		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 Things They Carried" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Things They Carried		53
2	French (fr) À propos de courage		8
3	German (de) Was sie trugen		6
4	Italian (it) Quanto pesano i fantasmi		4
5	Chinese (zh) 士兵的重负		3
6	Arabic (ar) الأشياء التي حملوها		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الأشياء التي حملوها
de	German Was sie trugen
en	English The Things They Carried
fr	French À propos de courage
it	Italian Quanto pesano i fantasmi
zh	Chinese 士兵的重负

Best Rank

English: #29705 05.2009

Global: #54551 05.2009

Best Rank

English: #11116 12.2011

Global: #14183 06.2004

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