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Direction finding

Quality:

Radio direction finding - measurement of the direction from which a received signal was transmitted. Article “Direction finding” in English Wikipedia has 80.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 90 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.24 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 2025 the article “Direction finding” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Direction finding”, its content was written by 247 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 466 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1128 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8568 in March 2003
  • Global: #13280 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #43053 in April 2015
  • Global: #71937 in April 2015

There are 22 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Direction finding
80.6039
2Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Radiopeiling
37.4876
3Portuguese (pt)
Radiogoniometria
23.9892
4German (de)
Funkpeilung
23.0795
5Kazakh (kk)
Радиопеленгация
22.1589
6Croatian (hr)
Radiogoniometrija
19.0494
7Russian (ru)
Радиопеленгация
18.8756
8Japanese (ja)
方向探知
18.6865
9Persian (fa)
جهت‌یابی رادیویی
17.2582
10Danish (da)
Radiopejling
16.0875
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Direction finding" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direction finding
2 013 163
2Russian (ru)
Радиопеленгация
345 776
3French (fr)
Radiogoniométrie
195 752
4German (de)
Funkpeilung
175 205
5Polish (pl)
Radionamierzanie
33 926
6Portuguese (pt)
Radiogoniometria
29 883
7Spanish (es)
Radiogoniometría
28 646
8Ukrainian (uk)
Радіопеленгування
19 516
9Chinese (zh)
无线电测向
17 091
10Japanese (ja)
方向探知
11 911
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Direction finding" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direction finding
6 371
2Russian (ru)
Радиопеленгация
1 706
3French (fr)
Radiogoniométrie
749
4German (de)
Funkpeilung
532
5Ukrainian (uk)
Радіопеленгування
270
6Japanese (ja)
方向探知
176
7Spanish (es)
Radiogoniometría
89
8Chinese (zh)
无线电测向
81
9Polish (pl)
Radionamierzanie
80
10Croatian (hr)
Radiogoniometrija
79
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Direction finding" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Direction finding
247
2German (de)
Funkpeilung
54
3French (fr)
Radiogoniométrie
44
4Russian (ru)
Радиопеленгация
34
5Ukrainian (uk)
Радіопеленгування
15
6Polish (pl)
Radionamierzanie
13
7Portuguese (pt)
Radiogoniometria
11
8Catalan (ca)
RDF
8
9Spanish (es)
Radiogoniometría
6
10Norwegian (no)
Radiopeiling
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Direction finding" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Direction finding
1
2Arabic (ar)
تحديد اتجاه
0
3Catalan (ca)
RDF
0
4Danish (da)
Radiopejling
0
5German (de)
Funkpeilung
0
6Spanish (es)
Radiogoniometría
0
7Persian (fa)
جهت‌یابی رادیویی
0
8French (fr)
Radiogoniométrie
0
9Croatian (hr)
Radiogoniometrija
0
10Japanese (ja)
方向探知
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Direction finding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Direction finding
1 128
2French (fr)
Radiogoniométrie
288
3Russian (ru)
Радиопеленгация
205
4Ukrainian (uk)
Радіопеленгування
197
5German (de)
Funkpeilung
190
6Persian (fa)
جهت‌یابی رادیویی
131
7Turkish (tr)
Radyogonyometri
113
8Arabic (ar)
تحديد اتجاه
63
9Chinese (zh)
无线电测向
63
10Japanese (ja)
方向探知
43
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تحديد اتجاه
caCatalan
RDF
daDanish
Radiopejling
deGerman
Funkpeilung
enEnglish
Direction finding
esSpanish
Radiogoniometría
faPersian
جهت‌یابی رادیویی
frFrench
Radiogoniométrie
hrCroatian
Radiogoniometrija
jaJapanese
方向探知
kkKazakh
Радиопеленгация
koKorean
방향 탐지
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Radiopeiling
noNorwegian
Radiopeiling
plPolish
Radionamierzanie
ptPortuguese
Radiogoniometria
roRomanian
Radiogoniometrie
ruRussian
Радиопеленгация
trTurkish
Radyogonyometri
ukUkrainian
Радіопеленгування
uzUzbek
Radiopelengator
zhChinese
无线电测向

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#43053
04.2015
Global:
#71937
04.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8568
03.2003
Global:
#13280
03.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Radio direction finding from Wikipedia articles about Triangulation, Eli Cohen, Multiple signal classification, Wikipedia article and Triangulation. Whereas reading the article about Radio direction finding people most often go to Wikipedia articles on High-frequency direction finding, Signals intelligence, Automatic direction finder, Bearing and Triangulation.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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