The Turn of the Screw

Quality:

The Turn of the Screw - 1898 novella by Henry James. This book is the 489^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 638^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Turn of the Screw” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 638^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 489^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Turn of the Screw”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 770 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Turn of the Screw is on the 638^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 489^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1026 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2497 in September 2013
• Global: #6696 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7853 in December 2022
• Global: #329 in October 2020

There are 21 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	Chinese (zh) 螺丝在拧紧		96.5979
2	English (en) The Turn of the Screw		95.5151
3	Spanish (es) The Turn of the Screw		79.6994
4	Portuguese (pt) The Turn of the Screw		65.5431
5	Serbian (sr) Окретај завртња		52.4828
6	Bulgarian (bg) Примката на призрака		47.0384
7	German (de) The Turn of the Screw		41.273
8	Russian (ru) Поворот винта		25.8585
9	Georgian (ka) მარწუხებში		25.4699
10	Catalan (ca) Un altre pas de rosca		21.9726

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Turn of the Screw		7 232 026
2	Spanish (es) The Turn of the Screw		744 571
3	Italian (it) Il giro di vite		546 245
4	French (fr) Le Tour d'écrou		385 025
5	Russian (ru) Поворот винта		308 303
6	German (de) The Turn of the Screw		285 362
7	Japanese (ja) ねじの回転		205 084
8	Portuguese (pt) The Turn of the Screw		106 021
9	Turkish (tr) Yürek Burgusu		25 196
10	Persian (fa) سخت‌تر شدن اوضاع		12 048

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 Turn of the Screw		21 170
2	Italian (it) Il giro di vite		4 969
3	Spanish (es) The Turn of the Screw		2 086
4	Russian (ru) Поворот винта		1 911
5	French (fr) Le Tour d'écrou		1 119
6	Japanese (ja) ねじの回転		903
7	German (de) The Turn of the Screw		775
8	Portuguese (pt) The Turn of the Screw		416
9	Chinese (zh) 螺丝在拧紧		382
10	Turkish (tr) Yürek Burgusu		146

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Turn of the Screw		347
2	French (fr) Le Tour d'écrou		90
3	Spanish (es) The Turn of the Screw		67
4	Italian (it) Il giro di vite		59
5	German (de) The Turn of the Screw		47
6	Japanese (ja) ねじの回転		25
7	Russian (ru) Поворот винта		24
8	Portuguese (pt) The Turn of the Screw		16
9	Catalan (ca) Un altre pas de rosca		14
10	Persian (fa) سخت‌تر شدن اوضاع		11

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 Turn of the Screw		2
2	Arabic (ar) دورة اللولب		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Примката на призрака		0
4	Catalan (ca) Un altre pas de rosca		0
5	German (de) The Turn of the Screw		0
6	Spanish (es) The Turn of the Screw		0
7	Basque (eu) Koxka bat estuago		0
8	Persian (fa) سخت‌تر شدن اوضاع		0
9	French (fr) Le Tour d'écrou		0
10	Italian (it) Il giro di vite		0

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

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