The Day of the Jackal

Quality:

The Day of the Jackal - 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth. This book is the 929^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 843^rd most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Day of the Jackal” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 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:

The 843^rd most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 929^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Day of the Jackal”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Day of the Jackal is on the 843^rd place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 929^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 450 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #501 in September 2021
• Global: #6226 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14699 in February 2025
• Global: #2374 in November 2024

There are 23 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) The Day of the Jackal		63.9651
2	Greek (el) Η Μέρα του Τσακαλιού		37.071
3	Hebrew (he) נשיא על הכוונת		30.6591
4	Estonian (et) Šaakali päev		22.4209
5	Ukrainian (uk) День Шакала		16.3883
6	Korean (ko) 자칼의 날 (소설)		15.6484
7	Italian (it) Il giorno dello sciacallo (romanzo)		15.1057
8	Polish (pl) Dzień Szakala (powieść)		14.2904
9	Simple English (simple) The Day of the Jackal		13.3274
10	Japanese (ja) ジャッカルの日		12.5107

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Day of the Jackal		3 439 315
2	Japanese (ja) ジャッカルの日		1 051 769
3	Russian (ru) День Шакала (роман)		394 117
4	Spanish (es) El día del Chacal		310 088
5	German (de) Der Schakal (Roman)		220 992
6	Italian (it) Il giorno dello sciacallo (romanzo)		179 597
7	Polish (pl) Dzień Szakala (powieść)		127 258
8	French (fr) Chacal (roman)		82 783
9	Swedish (sv) Schakalen (roman)		40 214
10	Czech (cs) Den pro Šakala		37 044

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 Day of the Jackal		21 374
2	Japanese (ja) ジャッカルの日		3 770
3	Russian (ru) День Шакала (роман)		2 264
4	Spanish (es) El día del Chacal		1 069
5	German (de) Der Schakal (Roman)		813
6	French (fr) Chacal (roman)		732
7	Italian (it) Il giorno dello sciacallo (romanzo)		585
8	Polish (pl) Dzień Szakala (powieść)		497
9	Czech (cs) Den pro Šakala		130
10	Ukrainian (uk) День Шакала		127

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Day of the Jackal		284
2	German (de) Der Schakal (Roman)		89
3	Japanese (ja) ジャッカルの日		78
4	Italian (it) Il giorno dello sciacallo (romanzo)		45
5	Spanish (es) El día del Chacal		38
6	Dutch (nl) De dag van de jakhals		36
7	French (fr) Chacal (roman)		32
8	Russian (ru) День Шакала (роман)		31
9	Polish (pl) Dzień Szakala (powieść)		20
10	Ukrainian (uk) День Шакала		19

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	English (en) The Day of the Jackal		5
2	Korean (ko) 자칼의 날 (소설)		2
3	Bulgarian (bg) Денят на Чакала		0
4	Czech (cs) Den pro Šakala		0
5	German (de) Der Schakal (Roman)		0
6	Greek (el) Η Μέρα του Τσακαλιού		0
7	Spanish (es) El día del Chacal		0
8	Estonian (et) Šaakali päev		0
9	French (fr) Chacal (roman)		0
10	Galician (gl) The Day of the Jackal		0

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

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