The Metamorphosis

Quality:

The Metamorphosis - novella by Franz Kafka. This book is the 83^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 948^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Metamorphosis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 948^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6157^th most popular in all topics.

The 8848^th most popular in AI.

The 83^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6164^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Metamorphosis”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2729 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8848^th place).

The Metamorphosis is on the 948^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 83^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3098 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #437 in March 2023
• Global: #1781 in July 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13034 in December 2023
• Global: #1298 in July 2013

There are 46 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	German (de) Die Verwandlung		57.7145
2	English (en) The Metamorphosis		53.3939
3	Spanish (es) La metamorfosis		39.8378
4	Italian (it) La metamorfosi		34.2438
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перевтілення (оповідання)		33.6356
6	Hebrew (he) הגלגול		32.8589
7	Portuguese (pt) A Metamorfose		31.5331
8	Russian (ru) Превращение (Кафка)		30.6206
9	Urdu (ur) دی میٹامورفوسس		30.0797
10	French (fr) La Métamorphose		29.7585

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Metamorphosis		13 797 731
2	Spanish (es) La metamorfosis		6 245 946
3	German (de) Die Verwandlung		4 153 231
4	Japanese (ja) 変身 (カフカ)		2 095 454
5	Italian (it) La metamorfosi		1 940 962
6	Russian (ru) Превращение (Кафка)		1 662 892
7	French (fr) La Métamorphose		1 568 622
8	Portuguese (pt) A Metamorfose		1 366 336
9	Chinese (zh) 变形记 (卡夫卡)		707 184
10	Czech (cs) Proměna (povídka)		545 138

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 Metamorphosis		56 166
2	German (de) Die Verwandlung		13 485
3	Spanish (es) La metamorfosis		12 448
4	Japanese (ja) 変身 (カフカ)		8 969
5	French (fr) La Métamorphose		6 440
6	Portuguese (pt) A Metamorfose		6 400
7	Russian (ru) Превращение (Кафка)		5 895
8	Italian (it) La metamorfosi		5 709
9	Chinese (zh) 变形记 (卡夫卡)		3 593
10	Persian (fa) مسخ (رمان کوتاه)		1 924

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Metamorphosis		769
2	German (de) Die Verwandlung		318
3	Spanish (es) La metamorfosis		264
4	French (fr) La Métamorphose		188
5	Italian (it) La metamorfosi		162
6	Japanese (ja) 変身 (カフカ)		77
7	Russian (ru) Превращение (Кафка)		76
8	Portuguese (pt) A Metamorfose		75
9	Hebrew (he) הגלגול		65
10	Dutch (nl) De gedaanteverwisseling		63

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 Metamorphosis		6
2	Persian (fa) مسخ (رمان کوتاه)		2
3	French (fr) La Métamorphose		2
4	Italian (it) La metamorfosi		2
5	Arabic (ar) المسخ (رواية)		1
6	Japanese (ja) 変身 (カフカ)		1
7	Norwegian (no) Forvandlingen		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Çevrilmə (roman)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Метаморфозата		0
10	Catalan (ca) La transformació		0

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

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