La Nuit des temps

The Ice People - novel by René Barjavel. This book is the 2769^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 147^th most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “La Nuit des temps” in French Wikipedia has 26.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 18 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “La Nuit des temps”, its content was written by 214 registered users of French Wikipedia (9947^th place) and edited by 295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Ice People is on the 147^th place in local ranking of books in French Wikipedia and on the 2769^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 57 times in French Wikipedia and cited 118 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #561 in February 2021
• Global: #29449 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #4988 in April 2020
• Global: #129655 in April 2020

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	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		28.9115
2	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		26.0783
3	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		24.4592
4	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		20.8433
5	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		20.1993
6	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		7.7086

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

The most popular language versions of the article "La Nuit des temps" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		1 738 954
2	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		161 776
3	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		64 732
4	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		10 067
5	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		1 080
6	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		37

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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 "La Nuit des temps" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		8 547
2	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		1 799
3	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		482
4	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		72
5	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		37
6	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		13

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

Language versions of the article "La Nuit des temps" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		214
2	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		51
3	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		22
4	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		6
5	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		1
6	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		1

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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 "La Nuit des temps" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		1
2	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		1
3	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		0
4	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		0
5	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		0
6	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		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 "La Nuit des temps" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) La Nuit des temps		57
2	English (en) The Ice People (Barjavel novel)		40
3	Spanish (es) La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)		11
4	Italian (it) La notte dei tempi		5
5	Swedish (sv) I tidernas gryning		4
6	Chinese (zh) 冰人 (法国科幻小说)		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English The Ice People (Barjavel novel)
es	Spanish La noche de los tiempos (novela de 1968)
fr	French La Nuit des temps
it	Italian La notte dei tempi
sv	Swedish I tidernas gryning
zh	Chinese 冰人 (法国科幻小说)

Best Rank

French: #4988 04.2020

Global: #129655 04.2020

Best Rank

French: #561 02.2021

Global: #29449 03.2003

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