Possession (roman)

Possession - novel by A. S. Byatt. This book is the 3963^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Possession (roman)” in French Wikipedia has 19.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Possession (roman)”, its content was written by 7 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 187 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Possession is on the 3963^rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in French Wikipedia and cited 341 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #62776 in February 2016
• Global: #70293 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #172808 in November 2023
• Global: #62330 in November 2023

There are 8 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) Possession (Byatt novel)		29.0714
2	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		23.0564
3	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		22.7548
4	French (fr) Possession (roman)		19.5563
5	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		11.7431
6	Russian (ru) Обладать		10.7857
7	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		5.8733
8	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		5.702

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Possession (roman)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Possession (Byatt novel)		1 061 429
2	Russian (ru) Обладать		162 447
3	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		78 730
4	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		43 994
5	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		10 371
6	French (fr) Possession (roman)		10 095
7	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		5 353
8	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		357

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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 "Possession (roman)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Possession (Byatt novel)		5 832
2	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		1 089
3	Russian (ru) Обладать		1 007
4	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		448
5	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		206
6	French (fr) Possession (roman)		92
7	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		80
8	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		43

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

Language versions of the article "Possession (roman)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Possession (Byatt novel)		87
2	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		32
3	Russian (ru) Обладать		21
4	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		16
5	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		15
6	French (fr) Possession (roman)		7
7	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		5
8	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		4

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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 "Possession (roman)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		0
2	English (en) Possession (Byatt novel)		0
3	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		0
4	French (fr) Possession (roman)		0
5	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		0
7	Russian (ru) Обладать		0
8	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		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 "Possession (roman)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Possession (Byatt novel)		209
2	Chinese (zh) 隱之书		64
3	Spanish (es) Posesión (novela)		17
4	German (de) Besessen (Roman)		14
5	Italian (it) Possessione (romanzo)		12
6	French (fr) Possession (roman)		11
7	Russian (ru) Обладать		11
8	Portuguese (pt) Possessão (romance)		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Besessen (Roman)
en	English Possession (Byatt novel)
es	Spanish Posesión (novela)
fr	French Possession (roman)
it	Italian Possessione (romanzo)
pt	Portuguese Possessão (romance)
ru	Russian Обладать
zh	Chinese 隱之书

Best Rank

French: #172808 11.2023

Global: #62330 11.2023

Best Rank

French: #62776 02.2016

Global: #70293 04.2005

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