Free energy principle

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Free energy principle

Quality:

Free energy principle - hypothesis in neuroscience proposed by Karl Friston. Article “Free energy principle” in English Wikipedia has 67.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 79 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.55 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Free energy principle” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Free energy principle”, its content was written by 88 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 140 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in English Wikipedia and cited 68 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #7463 in May 2023
  • Global: #19557 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #35221 in November 2018
  • Global: #76512 in November 2018

There are 13 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
1Catalan (ca)
Principi d'energia lliure
75.56
2English (en)
Free energy principle
67.4107
3Arabic (ar)
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
48.5332
4Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
45.089
5French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
43.7096
6Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da energia livre
36.7614
7Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
22.735
8German (de)
Prinzip der freien Energie
22.6246
9Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
18.7734
10Norwegian (no)
Fri energiprinsippet
16.5036
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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 "Free energy principle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Free energy principle
668 853
2French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
13 632
3Russian (ru)
Принцип свободной энергии
3 150
4German (de)
Prinzip der freien Energie
2 967
5Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
1 993
6Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da energia livre
1 878
7Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
1 375
8Simple English (simple)
Free energy principle
724
9Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
411
10Norwegian (no)
Fri energiprinsippet
195
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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 "Free energy principle" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Free energy principle
7 174
2Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
421
3French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
170
4Russian (ru)
Принцип свободной энергии
106
5German (de)
Prinzip der freien Energie
96
6Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
66
7Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
49
8Simple English (simple)
Free energy principle
46
9Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da energia livre
40
10Arabic (ar)
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
20
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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 "Free energy principle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Free energy principle
88
2French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
19
3German (de)
Prinzip der freien Energie
6
4Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
4
5Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
4
6Arabic (ar)
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
3
7Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
3
8Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da energia livre
3
9Simple English (simple)
Free energy principle
3
10Belarusian (be)
Прынцып свабоднай энергіі
2
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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 "Free energy principle" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Free energy principle
1
2French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
1
3Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
1
4Arabic (ar)
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
0
5Belarusian (be)
Прынцып свабоднай энергіі
0
6Catalan (ca)
Principi d'energia lliure
0
7German (de)
Prinzip der freien Energie
0
8Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
0
9Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
0
10Norwegian (no)
Fri energiprinsippet
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 "Free energy principle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Free energy principle
41
2French (fr)
Principe de l'énergie libre
7
3Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da energia livre
6
4Catalan (ca)
Principi d'energia lliure
2
5Spanish (es)
Principio de energía libre
2
6Japanese (ja)
自由エネルギー原理
2
7Russian (ru)
Принцип свободной энергии
2
8Simple English (simple)
Free energy principle
2
9Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип вільної енергії
2
10Arabic (ar)
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
1
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ الطاقة الحرة
beBelarusian
Прынцып свабоднай энергіі
caCatalan
Principi d'energia lliure
deGerman
Prinzip der freien Energie
enEnglish
Free energy principle
esSpanish
Principio de energía libre
frFrench
Principe de l'énergie libre
jaJapanese
自由エネルギー原理
noNorwegian
Fri energiprinsippet
ptPortuguese
Princípio da energia livre
ruRussian
Принцип свободной энергии
simpleSimple English
Free energy principle
ukUkrainian
Принцип вільної енергії

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35221
11.2018
Global:
#76512
11.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7463
05.2023
Global:
#19557
05.2023

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Free energy principle from Wikipedia articles about Karl J. Friston, Markov blanket, Bayesian approach to brain function, Predictive coding and Free energy. Whereas reading the article about Free energy principle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Bayesian inference, Evidence lower bound, Markov blanket, Information content and Karl J. Friston.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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