John Steinbeck

Quality:

John Steinbeck - American writer (1902–1968). This person is the 2190^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “John Steinbeck” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8895^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3895^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7666^th most popular in all topics.

The 3159^th most popular in AI.

The 2190^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5072^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “John Steinbeck” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5072^nd place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “John Steinbeck”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3895^th place) and edited by 4385 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3159^th place).

John Steinbeck is on the 2190^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 130 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12237 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #150 in November 2007
• Global: #427 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1566 in January 2008
• Global: #1725 in February 2014

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, 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) John Steinbeck		88.6825
2	Spanish (es) John Steinbeck		66.4105
3	German (de) John Steinbeck		66.1843
4	Finnish (fi) John Steinbeck		54.0394
5	Danish (da) John Steinbeck		53.0786
6	Norwegian (no) John Steinbeck		51.5046
7	Polish (pl) John Steinbeck		49.4424
8	Turkish (tr) John Steinbeck		49.2385
9	Georgian (ka) ჯონ სტეინბეკი		48.3704
10	Catalan (ca) John Steinbeck		47.8997

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Steinbeck		18 691 466
2	French (fr) John Steinbeck		1 803 170
3	Spanish (es) John Steinbeck		1 510 065
4	German (de) John Steinbeck		1 409 965
5	Russian (ru) Стейнбек, Джон		1 269 253
6	Italian (it) John Steinbeck		1 191 826
7	Japanese (ja) ジョン・スタインベック		629 095
8	Persian (fa) جان استاین‌بک		606 667
9	Czech (cs) John Steinbeck		562 598
10	Polish (pl) John Steinbeck		529 442

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) John Steinbeck		66 435
2	Italian (it) John Steinbeck		5 476
3	Russian (ru) Стейнбек, Джон		5 435
4	German (de) John Steinbeck		5 429
5	French (fr) John Steinbeck		5 323
6	Spanish (es) John Steinbeck		3 694
7	Japanese (ja) ジョン・スタインベック		2 539
8	Czech (cs) John Steinbeck		1 683
9	Polish (pl) John Steinbeck		1 470
10	Persian (fa) جان استاین‌بک		1 258

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Steinbeck		1 532
2	German (de) John Steinbeck		303
3	French (fr) John Steinbeck		294
4	Italian (it) John Steinbeck		158
5	Spanish (es) John Steinbeck		116
6	Russian (ru) Стейнбек, Джон		115
7	Dutch (nl) John Steinbeck		112
8	Swedish (sv) John Steinbeck		97
9	Norwegian (no) John Steinbeck		95
10	Polish (pl) John Steinbeck		87

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	German (de) John Steinbeck		3
2	Greek (el) Τζον Στάινμπεκ		1
3	English (en) John Steinbeck		1
4	French (fr) John Steinbeck		1
5	Italian (it) John Steinbeck		1
6	Dutch (nl) John Steinbeck		1
7	Russian (ru) Стейнбек, Джон		1
8	Simple English (simple) John Steinbeck		1
9	Turkish (tr) John Steinbeck		1
10	Arabic (ar) جون ستاينبيك		0

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

On 21 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Alysa Liu, Eric Dane, 2026 Winter Olympics, Rebecca Gayheart, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Wuthering Heights, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, John F. Kennedy Jr..

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Manon Bannerman, Black, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Jeffrey Epstein, Megan Skiendiel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Katseye, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Golden Edge.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information