Psychological warfare

Psychological warfare - military information operations aimed at promoting behaviour to assist military objectives. Article “Psychological warfare” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 23 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Psychological warfare” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Psychological warfare”, its content was written by 530 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1490 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1730 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7756 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3125 in April 2003
• Global: #1757 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13199 in November 2022
• Global: #21551 in November 2022

There are 44 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	Malay (ms) Perang saraf		86.4
2	English (en) Psychological warfare		85.6818
3	Chinese (zh) 心理战		84.1845
4	Estonian (et) Psühhosõda		70.7628
5	Hungarian (hu) Lélektani hadviselés		59.0317
6	Catalan (ca) Guerra psicològica		57.5161
7	Croatian (hr) Psihološki rat		39.3621
8	Latin (la) Bellum psychicum		37.7926
9	German (de) Psychologische Kriegsführung		37.541
10	Spanish (es) Guerra psicológica		37.3537

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Psychological warfare" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Psychological warfare		5 008 175
2	German (de) Psychologische Kriegsführung		436 230
3	Spanish (es) Guerra psicológica		344 572
4	Arabic (ar) حرب نفسية		300 524
5	Russian (ru) Психологическая война		300 318
6	Japanese (ja) 心理戦		243 896
7	Italian (it) Guerra psicologica		220 156
8	French (fr) Guerre psychologique		215 692
9	Persian (fa) جنگ روانی		213 245
10	Chinese (zh) 心理战		138 507

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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 "Psychological warfare" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Psychological warfare		23 952
2	German (de) Psychologische Kriegsführung		1 884
3	Russian (ru) Психологическая война		1 374
4	Italian (it) Guerra psicologica		1 063
5	Japanese (ja) 心理戦		790
6	Persian (fa) جنگ روانی		776
7	Chinese (zh) 心理战		759
8	Spanish (es) Guerra psicológica		741
9	French (fr) Guerre psychologique		546
10	Portuguese (pt) Guerra psicológica		468

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Psychological warfare		530
2	French (fr) Guerre psychologique		91
3	German (de) Psychologische Kriegsführung		86
4	Italian (it) Guerra psicologica		65
5	Hebrew (he) לוחמה פסיכולוגית		61
6	Japanese (ja) 心理戦		45
7	Turkish (tr) Psikolojik savaş		41
8	Russian (ru) Психологическая война		40
9	Chinese (zh) 心理战		40
10	Spanish (es) Guerra psicológica		39

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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 "Psychological warfare" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Psychological warfare		4
2	Polish (pl) Wojna psychologiczna		3
3	Czech (cs) Psychologická operace		2
4	Hebrew (he) לוחמה פסיכולוגית		2
5	Catalan (ca) Guerra psicològica		1
6	German (de) Psychologische Kriegsführung		1
7	Persian (fa) جنگ روانی		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Lélektani hadviselés		1
9	Arabic (ar) حرب نفسية		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Psixoloji müharibə		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 "Psychological warfare" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Psychological warfare		1 730
2	Persian (fa) جنگ روانی		583
3	Chinese (zh) 心理战		505
4	Ukrainian (uk) Психологічна війна		465
5	French (fr) Guerre psychologique		398
6	Portuguese (pt) Guerra psicológica		386
7	Serbian (sr) Психолошки рат		362
8	Italian (it) Guerra psicologica		333
9	Japanese (ja) 心理戦		323
10	Arabic (ar) حرب نفسية		296

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرب نفسية
az	Azerbaijani Psixoloji müharibə
bg	Bulgarian Психологическа война
ca	Catalan Guerra psicològica
cs	Czech Psychologická operace
de	German Psychologische Kriegsführung
el	Greek Ψυχολογικός πόλεμος
en	English Psychological warfare
es	Spanish Guerra psicológica
et	Estonian Psühhosõda
eu	Basque Gerra psikologiko
fa	Persian جنگ روانی
fi	Finnish Psykologinen sodankäynti
fr	French Guerre psychologique
gl	Galician Guerra psicolóxica
he	Hebrew לוחמה פסיכולוגית
hi	Hindi मनोवैज्ञानिक युद्ध
hr	Croatian Psihološki rat
hu	Hungarian Lélektani hadviselés
id	Indonesian Peperangan psikologis
it	Italian Guerra psicologica
ja	Japanese 心理戦
kk	Kazakh Психологиялық соғыс
ko	Korean 심리전
la	Latin Bellum psychicum
ms	Malay Perang saraf
nl	Dutch Psychologische oorlogvoering
no	Norwegian Psykologisk krigføring
pl	Polish Wojna psychologiczna
pt	Portuguese Guerra psicológica
ro	Romanian Război psihologic
ru	Russian Психологическая война
sh	Serbo-Croatian Psihološko ratovanje
simple	Simple English Psychological warfare
sl	Slovenian Psihološke operacije
sr	Serbian Психолошки рат
sv	Swedish Psykologisk krigföring
ta	Tamil உளவியற் போர்
th	Thai การสงครามจิตวิทยา
tr	Turkish Psikolojik savaş
uk	Ukrainian Психологічна війна
ur	Urdu نفسیاتی جنگ
vi	Vietnamese Chiến tranh tâm lý
zh	Chinese 心理战

Best Rank

English: #13199 11.2022

Global: #21551 11.2022

Best Rank

English: #3125 04.2003

Global: #1757 06.2022

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