James Watson

Quality:

James Watson - American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025). This person is the 5086^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James Watson” in Lithuanian Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4980^th most popular in AI.

The 5086^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Lithuanian Wikipedia:

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The 9286^th most editable in Lithuanian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7805^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “James Watson” was edited by 1 authors in Lithuanian Wikipedia (9286^th place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (7805^th place).

Since the creation of article “James Watson”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Lithuanian Wikipedia and edited by 3598 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4980^th place).

James Watson is on the 5086^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Lithuanian Wikipedia and cited 15231 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Lithuanian): #255 in September 2022
• Global: #15 in November 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Lithuanian): #8208 in November 2025
• Global: #283 in November 2025

There are 54 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, 2026 (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) James Watson		93.5828
2	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		90.9765
3	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		76.8314
4	Hungarian (hu) James D. Watson		66.7128
5	Malay (ms) James D. Watson		64.0952
6	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		59.1958
7	Tamil (ta) ஜேம்ஸ் வாட்சன்		57.5735
8	German (de) James Watson		56.6383
9	Arabic (ar) جيمس واتسون		56.55
10	Dutch (nl) James Watson		51.6856

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Watson		9 350 018
2	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		2 480 330
3	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		905 040
4	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・ワトソン		810 218
5	German (de) James Watson		675 935
6	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		630 491
7	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		507 064
8	Polish (pl) James Watson		432 352
9	Portuguese (pt) James Watson		380 596
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		335 837

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) James Watson		15 892
2	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・ワトソン		4 369
3	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		2 027
4	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		1 477
5	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		1 448
6	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		1 149
7	German (de) James Watson		1 125
8	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		1 051
9	Persian (fa) جیمز واتسون		688
10	Turkish (tr) James Dewey Watson		613

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Watson		1 229
2	German (de) James Watson		226
3	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		190
4	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		157
5	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		156
6	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		146
7	Dutch (nl) James Watson		108
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ווטסון		89
9	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		75
10	Polish (pl) James Watson		69

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	Finnish (fi) James D. Watson		4
2	Catalan (ca) James Dewey Watson		3
3	Arabic (ar) جيمس واتسون		2
4	Czech (cs) James Dewey Watson		2
5	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		2
6	English (en) James Watson		1
7	Persian (fa) جیمز واتسون		1
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ווטסון		1
9	Hindi (hi) जेम्स वॉटसन		1
10	Hungarian (hu) James D. Watson		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information