The Sandman (short story)

The Sandman - short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. This book is the 910^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Sandman (short story)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Sandman (short story)”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sandman is on the 910^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 473 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #941 in November 2022
• Global: #31672 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #34777 in November 2022
• Global: #32639 in November 2008

There are 17 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	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		39.2839
2	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		31.8317
3	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		27.6426
4	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος της άμμου (Χόφμαν)		23.5247
5	Polish (pl) Piaskun (opowiadanie)		21.0828
6	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		20.6999
7	Hebrew (he) איש החול (סיפור קצר)		19.901
8	Portuguese (pt) O Homem da Areia		18.3659
9	Bulgarian (bg) Пясъчният човек (Е.Т.А. Хофман)		9.3398
10	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		8.6232

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Sandman (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		3 058 543
2	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		1 146 813
3	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		442 245
4	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		296 592
5	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		281 151
6	Russian (ru) Песочный человек (новелла)		178 383
7	Japanese (ja) 砂男 (小説)		168 425
8	Portuguese (pt) O Homem da Areia		104 866
9	Swedish (sv) Sandmannen		59 973
10	Polish (pl) Piaskun (opowiadanie)		56 164

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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 "The Sandman (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		8 283
2	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		5 038
3	Russian (ru) Песочный человек (новелла)		1 595
4	Japanese (ja) 砂男 (小説)		1 314
5	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		997
6	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		931
7	Portuguese (pt) O Homem da Areia		593
8	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		518
9	Polish (pl) Piaskun (opowiadanie)		219
10	Hebrew (he) איש החול (סיפור קצר)		170

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

Language versions of the article "The Sandman (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		235
2	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		102
3	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		72
4	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		44
5	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		40
6	Swedish (sv) Sandmannen		20
7	Russian (ru) Песочный человек (новелла)		19
8	Japanese (ja) 砂男 (小説)		15
9	Polish (pl) Piaskun (opowiadanie)		13
10	Hebrew (he) איש החול (סיפור קצר)		11

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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 "The Sandman (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		1
2	Belarusian (be) Пясочны чалавек (навела)		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Пясъчният човек (Е.Т.А. Хофман)		0
4	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος της άμμου (Χόφμαν)		0
5	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		0
6	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		0
7	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		0
8	Hebrew (he) איש החול (סיפור קצר)		0
9	Hungarian (hu) A Homokember		0
10	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		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 "The Sandman (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)		151
2	English (en) The Sandman (short story)		124
3	French (fr) L'Homme au sable		41
4	Russian (ru) Песочный человек (новелла)		32
5	Italian (it) L'uomo della sabbia		27
6	Spanish (es) El hombre de arena (cuento)		23
7	Japanese (ja) 砂男 (小説)		18
8	Swedish (sv) Sandmannen		12
9	Portuguese (pt) O Homem da Areia		11
10	Hebrew (he) איש החול (סיפור קצר)		6

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Пясочны чалавек (навела)
bg	Bulgarian Пясъчният човек (Е.Т.А. Хофман)
de	German Der Sandmann (Hoffmann)
el	Greek Ο άνθρωπος της άμμου (Χόφμαν)
en	English The Sandman (short story)
es	Spanish El hombre de arena (cuento)
fr	French L'Homme au sable
he	Hebrew איש החול (סיפור קצר)
hu	Hungarian A Homokember
it	Italian L'uomo della sabbia
ja	Japanese 砂男 (小説)
ko	Korean 모래 사나이
pl	Polish Piaskun (opowiadanie)
pt	Portuguese O Homem da Areia
ru	Russian Песочный человек (новелла)
simple	Simple English The Sandman (short story)
sv	Swedish Sandmannen

Best Rank

Simple English: #34777 11.2022

Global: #32639 11.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #941 11.2022

Global: #31672 01.2005

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