Citizen Kane

Quality:

Citizen Kane - 1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles. This film is the 200^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 142^nd most popular film in French Wikipedia. Article “Citizen Kane” in French Wikipedia has 51.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.72 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 5727^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 5762^nd most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 142^nd most popular in films in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4459^th most popular in all topics.

The 4745^th most popular in AI.

The 200^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7743^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Citizen Kane” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Citizen Kane”, its content was written by 271 registered users of French Wikipedia (5762^nd place) and edited by 3631 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4745^th place).

Citizen Kane is on the 142^nd place in local ranking of films in French Wikipedia and on the 200^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 368 times in French Wikipedia and cited 7544 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1127 in November 2008
• Global: #333 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #608 in August 2012
• Global: #433 in December 2020

There are 51 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) Citizen Kane		100
2	Spanish (es) Citizen Kane		96.5978
3	German (de) Citizen Kane		81.4286
4	Greek (el) Πολίτης Κέιν		65.3983
5	Catalan (ca) Ciutadà Kane		61.695
6	Korean (ko) 시민 케인		60.1605
7	Italian (it) Quarto potere		55.2379
8	French (fr) Citizen Kane		51.6016
9	Persian (fa) همشهری کین		47.3189
10	Croatian (hr) Građanin Kane		45.1296

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Citizen Kane		24 998 642
2	Spanish (es) Citizen Kane		2 900 697
3	Italian (it) Quarto potere		2 460 940
4	French (fr) Citizen Kane		2 387 061
5	German (de) Citizen Kane		2 311 297
6	Russian (ru) Гражданин Кейн		2 251 835
7	Portuguese (pt) Citizen Kane		1 128 329
8	Japanese (ja) 市民ケーン		1 086 989
9	Persian (fa) همشهری کین		495 944
10	Polish (pl) Obywatel Kane		484 660

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Citizen Kane		82 248
2	Russian (ru) Гражданин Кейн		9 975
3	Italian (it) Quarto potere		6 663
4	German (de) Citizen Kane		6 213
5	French (fr) Citizen Kane		5 573
6	Spanish (es) Citizen Kane		5 334
7	Japanese (ja) 市民ケーン		4 280
8	Portuguese (pt) Citizen Kane		2 447
9	Persian (fa) همشهری کین		1 978
10	Chinese (zh) 公民凯恩		1 659

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Citizen Kane		1 219
2	German (de) Citizen Kane		343
3	French (fr) Citizen Kane		271
4	Italian (it) Quarto potere		221
5	Russian (ru) Гражданин Кейн		155
6	Spanish (es) Citizen Kane		135
7	Japanese (ja) 市民ケーン		102
8	Dutch (nl) Citizen Kane		93
9	Hebrew (he) האזרח קיין		83
10	Portuguese (pt) Citizen Kane		76

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Citizen Kane		7
2	Italian (it) Quarto potere		3
3	German (de) Citizen Kane		1
4	Spanish (es) Citizen Kane		1
5	Basque (eu) Citizen Kane		1
6	French (fr) Citizen Kane		1
7	Galician (gl) Cidadán Kane		1
8	Dutch (nl) Citizen Kane		1
9	Urdu (ur) سٹیزن کین		1
10	Chinese (zh) 公民凯恩		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information