Deterrence theory

Deterrence theory - theory of preventing aggression through threat of force. Article “Deterrence theory” in English Wikipedia has 79.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 148 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.81 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Deterrence theory” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Deterrence theory”, its content was written by 263 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 600 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1705 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3281 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10626 in July 2002
• Global: #12111 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17223 in February 2022
• Global: #14087 in February 2022

There are 24 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) Deterrence theory		79.2809
2	Polish (pl) Teoria odstraszania		56.3919
3	Japanese (ja) 核抑止		33.2785
4	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (אסטרטגיה)		28.9352
5	French (fr) Dissuasion nucléaire		27.322
6	Catalan (ca) Teoria de la dissuasió		24.8766
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da intimidação		24.5662
8	Persian (fa) نظریه بازدارندگی		21.3711
9	Chinese (zh) 威懾理論		20.4346
10	Czech (cs) Teorie odstrašování		16.3336

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Deterrence theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deterrence theory		3 175 131
2	Japanese (ja) 核抑止		631 173
3	French (fr) Dissuasion nucléaire		343 615
4	Italian (it) Deterrenza		205 001
5	Russian (ru) Ядерное сдерживание		169 587
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de la disuasión		95 924
7	Chinese (zh) 威懾理論		70 963
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية الردع		66 669
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da intimidação		61 912
10	Persian (fa) نظریه بازدارندگی		59 527

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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 "Deterrence theory" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deterrence theory		6 325
2	Japanese (ja) 核抑止		933
3	French (fr) Dissuasion nucléaire		793
4	Chinese (zh) 威懾理論		453
5	Persian (fa) نظریه بازدارندگی		439
6	Russian (ru) Ядерное сдерживание		306
7	Polish (pl) Teoria odstraszania		257
8	Spanish (es) Teoría de la disuasión		209
9	Korean (ko) 억지 이론		196
10	Italian (it) Deterrenza		162

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

Language versions of the article "Deterrence theory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deterrence theory		263
2	Japanese (ja) 核抑止		64
3	French (fr) Dissuasion nucléaire		46
4	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (אסטרטגיה)		44
5	Italian (it) Deterrenza		21
6	Persian (fa) نظریه بازدارندگی		20
7	Russian (ru) Ядерное сдерживание		20
8	Finnish (fi) Peloteteoria		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da intimidação		14
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến lược răn đe		14

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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 "Deterrence theory" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Teoria odstraszania		3
2	Czech (cs) Teorie odstrašování		1
3	English (en) Deterrence theory		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến lược răn đe		1
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية الردع		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Nüvə yayındırıcılığı		0
7	Catalan (ca) Teoria de la dissuasió		0
8	Greek (el) Αποτροπή		0
9	Spanish (es) Teoría de la disuasión		0
10	Persian (fa) نظریه بازدارندگی		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 "Deterrence theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Deterrence theory		1 705
2	French (fr) Dissuasion nucléaire		265
3	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (אסטרטגיה)		181
4	Arabic (ar) نظرية الردع		164
5	Japanese (ja) 核抑止		160
6	Chinese (zh) 威懾理論		119
7	Korean (ko) 억지 이론		104
8	Turkish (tr) Nükleer caydırıcılık		99
9	Italian (it) Deterrenza		79
10	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da intimidação		72

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الردع
az	Azerbaijani Nüvə yayındırıcılığı
ca	Catalan Teoria de la dissuasió
cs	Czech Teorie odstrašování
el	Greek Αποτροπή
en	English Deterrence theory
es	Spanish Teoría de la disuasión
fa	Persian نظریه بازدارندگی
fi	Finnish Peloteteoria
fr	French Dissuasion nucléaire
he	Hebrew הרתעה (אסטרטגיה)
id	Indonesian Teori penggentar
it	Italian Deterrenza
ja	Japanese 核抑止
ko	Korean 억지 이론
nl	Dutch Afschrikking
pl	Polish Teoria odstraszania
pt	Portuguese Teoria da intimidação
ru	Russian Ядерное сдерживание
sh	Serbo-Croatian Teorija odvraćanja
simple	Simple English Nuclear deterrent
tr	Turkish Nükleer caydırıcılık
vi	Vietnamese Chiến lược răn đe
zh	Chinese 威懾理論

Best Rank

English: #17223 02.2022

Global: #14087 02.2022

Best Rank

English: #10626 07.2002

Global: #12111 07.2002

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