What Is History

What Is History? - work by Edward Carr. This book is the 3093^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “What Is History?” in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 5 sections.

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 “What Is History?”, its content was written by 135 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 213 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

What Is History? is on the 3093^rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in English Wikipedia and cited 54 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2585 in September 2014
• Global: #18594 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #41972 in June 2014
• Global: #82624 in June 2011

There are 10 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) What Is History?		29.6402
2	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		25.5357
3	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		23.0704
4	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		18.272
5	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		12.6392
6	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		10.0122
7	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		7.342
8	Norwegian (no) What is History?		4.5373
9	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		2.0754
10	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		0.1495

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "What Is History?" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) What Is History?		1 446 287
2	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		127 727
3	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		105 180
4	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		33 668
5	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		23 481
6	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		18 555
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		12 140
8	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		6 764
9	Norwegian (no) What is History?		3 052
10	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		1 730

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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 "What Is History?" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) What Is History?		2 603
2	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		500
3	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		250
4	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		241
5	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		127
6	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		38
7	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		32
8	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		29
9	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		20
10	Norwegian (no) What is History?		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "What Is History?" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) What Is History?		135
2	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		18
3	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		16
4	Norwegian (no) What is History?		14
5	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		9
6	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		8
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		4
8	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		4
9	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		3
10	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		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 "What Is History?" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) What Is History?		0
2	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		0
3	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		0
4	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		0
5	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		0
6	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		0
7	Norwegian (no) What is History?		0
8	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		0
9	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		0
10	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		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 "What Is History?" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) What Is History?		19
2	Japanese (ja) 歴史とは何か		11
3	Italian (it) Sei lezioni sulla storia		6
4	Korean (ko) 역사란 무엇인가		4
5	Turkish (tr) Tarih Nedir? (kitap)		4
6	Persian (fa) تاریخ چیست؟		3
7	Portuguese (pt) What is History?		3
8	Croatian (hr) Što je povijest? (Carr)		2
9	Norwegian (no) What is History?		2
10	Tamil (ta) வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English What Is History?
fa	Persian تاریخ چیست؟
hr	Croatian Što je povijest? (Carr)
it	Italian Sei lezioni sulla storia
ja	Japanese 歴史とは何か
ko	Korean 역사란 무엇인가
no	Norwegian What is History?
pt	Portuguese What is History?
ta	Tamil வரலாறு என்றால் என்ன?
tr	Turkish Tarih Nedir? (kitap)

Best Rank

English: #41972 06.2014

Global: #82624 06.2011

Best Rank

English: #2585 09.2014

Global: #18594 09.2014

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