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Information overload

Quality:

Information overload - term used to describe the difficulty of understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information. Article “Information overload” in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.55 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 “Information overload” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Information overload”, its content was written by 302 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 761 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 412 times in English Wikipedia and cited 925 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #22165 in December 2005
  • Global: #19756 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #67300 in February 2023
  • Global: #81097 in September 2014

There are 27 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)
Information overload
67.4865
2Basque (eu)
Infoxikazio
59.0392
3Korean (ko)
정보 과다
51.7849
4Ukrainian (uk)
Інформаційне перевантаження
40.6955
5French (fr)
Surcharge informationnelle
40.4696
6Catalan (ca)
Infoxicació
39.3738
7Japanese (ja)
情報オーバーロード
38.5223
8Estonian (et)
Infoväsimuse sündroom
37.5977
9Polish (pl)
Przeciążenie informacją
37.0913
10Hebrew (he)
היצף מידע
33.6377
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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 "Information overload" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information overload
2 027 613
2Spanish (es)
Sobrecarga informativa
365 935
3Russian (ru)
Информационная перегрузка
211 372
4German (de)
Informationsüberflutung
186 199
5French (fr)
Surcharge informationnelle
148 728
6Japanese (ja)
情報オーバーロード
121 240
7Italian (it)
Sovraccarico cognitivo
109 398
8Chinese (zh)
資訊超載
44 906
9Persian (fa)
سرریز داده‌ها
33 412
10Dutch (nl)
Informatiestress
25 140
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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 "Information overload" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information overload
7 342
2Spanish (es)
Sobrecarga informativa
740
3Russian (ru)
Информационная перегрузка
707
4French (fr)
Surcharge informationnelle
704
5Chinese (zh)
資訊超載
368
6Japanese (ja)
情報オーバーロード
360
7German (de)
Informationsüberflutung
312
8Italian (it)
Sovraccarico cognitivo
300
9Korean (ko)
정보 과다
195
10Polish (pl)
Przeciążenie informacją
121
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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 "Information overload" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Information overload
302
2German (de)
Informationsüberflutung
66
3French (fr)
Surcharge informationnelle
60
4Spanish (es)
Sobrecarga informativa
59
5Italian (it)
Sovraccarico cognitivo
40
6Hebrew (he)
היצף מידע
39
7Russian (ru)
Информационная перегрузка
29
8Catalan (ca)
Infoxicació
20
9Japanese (ja)
情報オーバーロード
16
10Arabic (ar)
إغراق معلوماتي
14
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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 "Information overload" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
إغراق معلوماتي
1
2English (en)
Information overload
1
3Indonesian (id)
Banjir informasi
1
4Slovenian (sl)
Informacijska preobremenjenost
1
5Bulgarian (bg)
Информационно претоварване
0
6Catalan (ca)
Infoxicació
0
7Czech (cs)
Informační zahlcení
0
8German (de)
Informationsüberflutung
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Informa superŝarĝo
0
10Spanish (es)
Sobrecarga informativa
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 "Information overload" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Information overload
412
2German (de)
Informationsüberflutung
65
3French (fr)
Surcharge informationnelle
61
4Persian (fa)
سرریز داده‌ها
43
5Spanish (es)
Sobrecarga informativa
38
6Hebrew (he)
היצף מידע
38
7Korean (ko)
정보 과다
36
8Chinese (zh)
資訊超載
33
9Japanese (ja)
情報オーバーロード
32
10Russian (ru)
Информационная перегрузка
25
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إغراق معلوماتي
bgBulgarian
Информационно претоварване
caCatalan
Infoxicació
csCzech
Informační zahlcení
deGerman
Informationsüberflutung
enEnglish
Information overload
eoEsperanto
Informa superŝarĝo
esSpanish
Sobrecarga informativa
etEstonian
Infoväsimuse sündroom
euBasque
Infoxikazio
faPersian
سرریز داده‌ها
fiFinnish
Informaatioähky
frFrench
Surcharge informationnelle
heHebrew
היצף מידע
hrCroatian
Prekrcanost informacijama
idIndonesian
Banjir informasi
itItalian
Sovraccarico cognitivo
jaJapanese
情報オーバーロード
koKorean
정보 과다
nlDutch
Informatiestress
plPolish
Przeciążenie informacją
ruRussian
Информационная перегрузка
slSlovenian
Informacijska preobremenjenost
svSwedish
Informationsöverbelastning
thThai
ภาวะข้อมูลท่วมท้น
ukUkrainian
Інформаційне перевантаження
zhChinese
資訊超載

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#67300
02.2023
Global:
#81097
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22165
12.2005
Global:
#19756
02.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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