真昼の暗黒 (小説)

Darkness at Noon - novel by Arthur Koestler. This book is the 1881^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" in Japanese Wikipedia has 17.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "真昼の暗黒 (小説)", its content was written by 12 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 514 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Darkness at Noon is on the 1881^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 58 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 621 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #13995 in November 2012
• Global: #30868 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #224003 in October 2015
• Global: #91269 in March 2021

There are 21 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) Darkness at Noon		55.7771
2	Russian (ru) Слепящая тьма		39.5163
3	Chinese (zh) 中午的黑暗		30.0035
4	Turkish (tr) Sonnenfinsternis		29.1712
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ніч ополудні		28.353
6	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		26.6786
7	Hebrew (he) אפלה בצהריים		26.6343
8	Swedish (sv) Natt klockan tolv på dagen (roman)		26
9	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		24.6215
10	Japanese (ja) 真昼の暗黒 (小説)		17.6253

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

The most popular language versions of the article "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Darkness at Noon		1 926 185
2	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		221 189
3	Russian (ru) Слепящая тьма		158 835
4	Spanish (es) El cero y el infinito		157 838
5	Italian (it) Buio a mezzogiorno		97 207
6	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		95 267
7	Japanese (ja) 真昼の暗黒 (小説)		49 675
8	Persian (fa) ظلمت در نیمروز		41 949
9	Portuguese (pt) O Zero e o Infinito		41 916
10	Chinese (zh) 中午的黑暗		16 310

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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 "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Darkness at Noon		8 696
2	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		1 133
3	Russian (ru) Слепящая тьма		665
4	Spanish (es) El cero y el infinito		543
5	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		473
6	Italian (it) Buio a mezzogiorno		352
7	Japanese (ja) 真昼の暗黒 (小説)		332
8	Portuguese (pt) O Zero e o Infinito		149
9	Chinese (zh) 中午的黑暗		128
10	Polish (pl) Ciemność w południe		118

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

Language versions of the article "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Darkness at Noon		199
2	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		66
3	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		44
4	Italian (it) Buio a mezzogiorno		44
5	Russian (ru) Слепящая тьма		24
6	Spanish (es) El cero y el infinito		23
7	Persian (fa) ظلمت در نیمروز		17
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ніч ополудні		16
9	Norwegian (no) Mørke midt på dagen		14
10	Japanese (ja) 真昼の暗黒 (小説)		12

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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 "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		1
2	Azerbaijani (az) Gözqamaşdırıcı zülmət (roman)		0
3	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		0
4	English (en) Darkness at Noon		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Tagmeza mallumo		0
6	Spanish (es) El cero y el infinito		0
7	Persian (fa) ظلمت در نیمروز		0
8	Finnish (fi) Pimeää keskellä päivää		0
9	Hebrew (he) אפלה בצהריים		0
10	Italian (it) Buio a mezzogiorno		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 "真昼の暗黒 (小説)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Darkness at Noon		254
2	Chinese (zh) 中午的黑暗		84
3	Japanese (ja) 真昼の暗黒 (小説)		58
4	French (fr) Le Zéro et l'Infini		37
5	Italian (it) Buio a mezzogiorno		28
6	German (de) Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)		27
7	Spanish (es) El cero y el infinito		22
8	Russian (ru) Слепящая тьма		22
9	Persian (fa) ظلمت در نیمروز		20
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Pomračenje u podne		12

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Gözqamaşdırıcı zülmət (roman)
de	German Sonnenfinsternis (Roman)
en	English Darkness at Noon
eo	Esperanto Tagmeza mallumo
es	Spanish El cero y el infinito
fa	Persian ظلمت در نیمروز
fi	Finnish Pimeää keskellä päivää
fr	French Le Zéro et l'Infini
he	Hebrew אפלה בצהריים
it	Italian Buio a mezzogiorno
ja	Japanese 真昼の暗黒 (小説)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Mørke midt på dagen
no	Norwegian Mørke midt på dagen
pl	Polish Ciemność w południe
pt	Portuguese O Zero e o Infinito
ru	Russian Слепящая тьма
sh	Serbo-Croatian Pomračenje u podne
sv	Swedish Natt klockan tolv på dagen (roman)
tr	Turkish Sonnenfinsternis
uk	Ukrainian Ніч ополудні
zh	Chinese 中午的黑暗

Best Rank

Japanese: #224003 10.2015

Global: #91269 03.2021

Best Rank

Japanese: #13995 11.2012

Global: #30868 07.2004

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