James D. Watson

Quality:

James D. Watson - American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Noble Laureate (born 1928). This person is the 5131^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James D. Watson” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 3 sections.

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5557^th most popular in AI.

The 5131^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6668^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “James D. Watson” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6668^th place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “James D. Watson”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3369 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5557^th place).

James D. Watson is on the 5131^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 249 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14923 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1285 in September 2012
• Global: #144 in October 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5708 in April 2013
• Global: #1837 in December 2014

There are 53 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) James Watson		97.3668
2	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		77.6071
3	Hungarian (hu) James D. Watson		66.6974
4	Malay (ms) James D. Watson		63.3524
5	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		60.3606
6	German (de) James Watson		56.8459
7	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		54.656
8	Arabic (ar) جيمس واتسون		54.0459
9	Catalan (ca) James Dewey Watson		44.363
10	Georgian (ka) ჯეიმზ უოტსონი		43.0768

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Watson		8 558 093
2	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		2 407 857
3	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		806 615
4	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・ワトソン		731 644
5	German (de) James Watson		608 091
6	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		587 291
7	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		472 064
8	Polish (pl) James Watson		410 920
9	Portuguese (pt) James Watson		366 765
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		294 086

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		29 315
2	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・ワトソン		5 107
3	German (de) James Watson		2 616
4	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		2 469
5	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		2 178
6	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·杜威·沃森		1 726
7	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		1 581
8	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		1 539
9	Polish (pl) James Watson		714
10	Persian (fa) جیمز واتسون		702

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		1 140
2	German (de) James Watson		208
3	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		174
4	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		149
5	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		144
6	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		136
7	Dutch (nl) James Watson		102
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ווטסון		83
9	Norwegian (no) James D. Watson		68
10	Polish (pl) James Watson		65

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	Russian (ru) Уотсон, Джеймс		2
2	Czech (cs) James Dewey Watson		1
3	English (en) James Watson		1
4	Spanish (es) James Dewey Watson		1
5	French (fr) James Dewey Watson		1
6	Italian (it) James Dewey Watson		1
7	Simple English (simple) James D. Watson		1
8	Serbian (sr) Džejms D. Votson		1
9	Arabic (ar) جيمس واتسون		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Ceyms Vatson		0

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

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