The Catcher in the Rye

Quality:

The Catcher in the Rye - 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. This book is the 27^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 138^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Catcher in the Rye” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.75 points.

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 9910^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 138^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2379^th most popular in all topics.

The 3587^th most popular in AI.

The 27^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3731^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Catcher in the Rye”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9910^th place) and edited by 4136 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3587^th place).

The Catcher in the Rye is on the 138^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1999 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #227 in January 2010
• Global: #135 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1481 in January 2010
• Global: #110 in January 2010

There are 45 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) The Catcher in the Rye		70.9705
2	Chinese (zh) 麥田捕手		56.8359
3	German (de) Der Fänger im Roggen		55.7826
4	Hebrew (he) התפסן בשדה השיפון		49.0256
5	Catalan (ca) El vigilant en el camp de sègol		48.6341
6	Latin (la) The Catcher in the Rye		40.5986
7	Basque (eu) Zekale artean harrapaka		37.7654
8	Spanish (es) The Catcher in the Rye		33.3194
9	French (fr) L'Attrape-cœurs		29.8069
10	Greek (el) Ο φύλακας στη σίκαλη		28.59

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Catcher in the Rye		30 699 536
2	Russian (ru) Над пропастью во ржи		6 198 561
3	Spanish (es) The Catcher in the Rye		3 444 632
4	Italian (it) Il giovane Holden		3 151 268
5	Japanese (ja) ライ麦畑でつかまえて		2 968 595
6	German (de) Der Fänger im Roggen		2 967 461
7	French (fr) L'Attrape-cœurs		1 947 062
8	Polish (pl) Buszujący w zbożu		1 377 472
9	Portuguese (pt) The Catcher in the Rye		939 232
10	Chinese (zh) 麥田捕手		833 341

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) The Catcher in the Rye		97 838
2	German (de) Der Fänger im Roggen		17 800
3	Russian (ru) Над пропастью во ржи		15 822
4	Japanese (ja) ライ麦畑でつかまえて		13 470
5	French (fr) L'Attrape-cœurs		13 345
6	Italian (it) Il giovane Holden		10 622
7	Spanish (es) The Catcher in the Rye		9 967
8	Polish (pl) Buszujący w zbożu		3 607
9	Chinese (zh) 麥田捕手		3 556
10	Portuguese (pt) The Catcher in the Rye		2 725

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Catcher in the Rye		1 750
2	German (de) Der Fänger im Roggen		237
3	Italian (it) Il giovane Holden		236
4	French (fr) L'Attrape-cœurs		199
5	Russian (ru) Над пропастью во ржи		189
6	Hebrew (he) התפסן בשדה השיפון		155
7	Spanish (es) The Catcher in the Rye		145
8	Chinese (zh) 麥田捕手		91
9	Japanese (ja) ライ麦畑でつかまえて		90
10	Dutch (nl) The Catcher in the Rye		78

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	Urdu (ur) دی کیچر ان دی رائی		4
2	Italian (it) Il giovane Holden		3
3	English (en) The Catcher in the Rye		1
4	Estonian (et) Kuristik rukkis		1
5	French (fr) L'Attrape-cœurs		1
6	Hebrew (he) התפסן בשדה השיפון		1
7	Swedish (sv) Räddaren i nöden		1
8	Arabic (ar) الحارس في حقل الشوفان		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Çovdarlıqda uçurumdan qoruyan		0
10	Belarusian (be) Лавец у жыце		0

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

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