On the Road

On the Road - 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac. This book is the 235^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 431^st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “On the Road” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “On the Road”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1266 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

On the Road is on the 431^st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 235^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1338 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3395 in July 2016
• Global: #14575 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11530 in June 2010
• Global: #3119 in October 2012

There are 35 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) On the Road		64.4777
2	Russian (ru) В дороге		64.0674
3	Italian (it) Sulla strada		43.6072
4	Greek (el) Στο δρόμο		42.2136
5	French (fr) Sur la route		25.9102
6	Persian (fa) در جاده		24.9655
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) On the Road		24.784
8	German (de) Unterwegs		24.4633
9	Arabic (ar) على الطريق (رواية)		22.9502
10	Turkish (tr) Yolda		22.7373

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

The most popular language versions of the article "On the Road" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) On the Road		11 247 340
2	Italian (it) Sulla strada		1 337 792
3	French (fr) Sur la route		1 123 721
4	Spanish (es) En el camino		1 070 168
5	Russian (ru) В дороге		962 585
6	German (de) Unterwegs		588 223
7	Portuguese (pt) On the Road		569 903
8	Japanese (ja) 路上 (小説)		212 021
9	Czech (cs) Na cestě		184 793
10	Chinese (zh) 在路上		179 772

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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 "On the Road" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) On the Road		30 079
2	Italian (it) Sulla strada		3 626
3	French (fr) Sur la route		3 119
4	Russian (ru) В дороге		2 656
5	Spanish (es) En el camino		2 055
6	German (de) Unterwegs		1 248
7	Japanese (ja) 路上 (小説)		1 027
8	Portuguese (pt) On the Road		838
9	Chinese (zh) 在路上		691
10	Czech (cs) Na cestě		493

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

Language versions of the article "On the Road" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) On the Road		469
2	French (fr) Sur la route		105
3	Italian (it) Sulla strada		102
4	German (de) Unterwegs		91
5	Russian (ru) В дороге		60
6	Spanish (es) En el camino		36
7	Portuguese (pt) On the Road		33
8	Norwegian (no) On the Road (roman)		31
9	Dutch (nl) On the Road (boek)		30
10	Swedish (sv) På väg		24

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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 "On the Road" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) On the Road		1
2	Japanese (ja) 路上 (小説)		1
3	Russian (ru) В дороге		1
4	Arabic (ar) على الطريق (رواية)		0
5	Catalan (ca) A la carretera		0
6	Czech (cs) Na cestě		0
7	Danish (da) On the Road		0
8	German (de) Unterwegs		0
9	Greek (el) Στο δρόμο		0
10	Spanish (es) En el camino		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 "On the Road" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) On the Road		378
2	French (fr) Sur la route		128
3	Italian (it) Sulla strada		79
4	German (de) Unterwegs		73
5	Spanish (es) En el camino		68
6	Russian (ru) В дороге		64
7	Czech (cs) Na cestě		58
8	Portuguese (pt) On the Road		43
9	Japanese (ja) 路上 (小説)		37
10	Chinese (zh) 在路上		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic على الطريق (رواية)
ca	Catalan A la carretera
cs	Czech Na cestě
da	Danish On the Road
de	German Unterwegs
el	Greek Στο δρόμο
en	English On the Road
es	Spanish En el camino
eu	Basque Errepidean
fa	Persian در جاده
fi	Finnish Matkalla
fr	French Sur la route
gl	Galician Na estrada
he	Hebrew בדרכים
hy	Armenian Ճանապարհին
id	Indonesian Di Jalanan
it	Italian Sulla strada
ja	Japanese 路上 (小説)
ka	Georgian გზაზე
ko	Korean 길 위에서
ms	Malay On the Road
nl	Dutch On the Road (boek)
no	Norwegian On the Road (roman)
pl	Polish W drodze (powieść)
pt	Portuguese On the Road
ru	Russian В дороге
sh	Serbo-Croatian On the Road
simple	Simple English On the Road
sk	Slovak Na ceste
sr	Serbian На путу
sv	Swedish På väg
th	Thai ออนเดอะโรด
tr	Turkish Yolda
uk	Ukrainian В дорозі
zh	Chinese 在路上

Best Rank

Simple English: #11530 06.2010

Global: #3119 10.2012

Best Rank

Simple English: #3395 07.2016

Global: #14575 09.2012

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