Doctor Faustus

Quality:

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - play by Christopher Marlowe. This book is the 643^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 309^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Doctor Faustus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 309^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 643^rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Doctor Faustus”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 683 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is on the 309^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 643^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #6287 in November 2022
• Global: #7682 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6315 in October 2017
• Global: #31988 in November 2009

There are 24 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) Doctor Faustus (play)		73.7959
2	German (de) Die tragische Historie vom Doktor Faustus		61.2483
3	Serbian (sr) Трагична повест живота и смрти доктора Фаустуса		57.6685
4	Italian (it) La tragica storia del Dottor Faust		43.9925
5	Polish (pl) Faust (dramat Christophera Marlowe’a)		34.6732
6	Bulgarian (bg) Трагичната история за живота и смъртта на доктор Фауст		29.2075
7	Japanese (ja) フォースタス博士		28.3394
8	Russian (ru) Трагическая история доктора Фауста		24.9714
9	Tamil (ta) டாக்டர் பாஸ்டஸ் (நாடகம்)		24.3374
10	Greek (el) Η τραγική ιστορία του δόκτορος Φάουστους		23.7766

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Doctor Faustus (play)		5 951 039
2	Italian (it) La tragica storia del Dottor Faust		664 311
3	Spanish (es) La trágica historia del doctor Fausto		648 607
4	German (de) Die tragische Historie vom Doktor Faustus		232 340
5	French (fr) La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust		129 400
6	Arabic (ar) دكتور فاوستس (مسرحية)		111 122
7	Portuguese (pt) A Trágica História do Doutor Fausto		109 784
8	Chinese (zh) 浮士德博士悲劇		75 211
9	Japanese (ja) フォースタス博士		69 835
10	Persian (fa) دکتر فاستوس (نمایشنامه)		44 503

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) Doctor Faustus (play)		14 169
2	Italian (it) La tragica storia del Dottor Faust		859
3	Spanish (es) La trágica historia del doctor Fausto		773
4	German (de) Die tragische Historie vom Doktor Faustus		665
5	Russian (ru) Трагическая история доктора Фауста		594
6	French (fr) La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust		439
7	Turkish (tr) Doctor Faustus (oyun)		275
8	Japanese (ja) フォースタス博士		264
9	Persian (fa) دکتر فاستوس (نمایشنامه)		244
10	Portuguese (pt) A Trágica História do Doutor Fausto		203

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Doctor Faustus (play)		325
2	Italian (it) La tragica storia del Dottor Faust		83
3	German (de) Die tragische Historie vom Doktor Faustus		65
4	Spanish (es) La trágica historia del doctor Fausto		37
5	French (fr) La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust		34
6	Hebrew (he) דוקטור פאוסטוס (מחזה)		19
7	Portuguese (pt) A Trágica História do Doutor Fausto		17
8	Swedish (sv) Faust (Marlowe)		15
9	Bulgarian (bg) Трагичната история за живота и смъртта на доктор Фауст		11
10	Persian (fa) دکتر فاستوس (نمایشنامه)		11

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	Serbian (sr) Трагична повест живота и смрти доктора Фаустуса		2
2	Arabic (ar) دكتور فاوستس (مسرحية)		1
3	German (de) Die tragische Historie vom Doktor Faustus		1
4	English (en) Doctor Faustus (play)		1
5	Persian (fa) دکتر فاستوس (نمایشنامه)		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Трагичната история за живота и смъртта на доктор Фауст		0
7	Greek (el) Η τραγική ιστορία του δόκτορος Φάουστους		0
8	Spanish (es) La trágica historia del doctor Fausto		0
9	French (fr) La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust		0
10	Hebrew (he) דוקטור פאוסטוס (מחזה)		0

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

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