Shock and awe

Quality:

Shock and awe - military tactic. Article “Shock and awe” in English Wikipedia has 45.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shock and awe”, its content was written by 276 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 459 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 744 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1272 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5 in March 2003
• Global: #12 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8363 in December 2008
• Global: #16591 in December 2008

There are 18 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	English (en) Shock and awe		45.1574
2	French (fr) Choc et effroi		31.3209
3	Slovak (sk) Šok a hrôza		28.521
4	Russian (ru) Шок и трепет (доктрина)		26.1095
5	Vietnamese (vi) Sốc và sợ hãi		25.9435
6	Norwegian (no) Sjokk og frykt		24.1335
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шок і трепет		22.2742
8	Arabic (ar) الصدمة والترويع		21.1026
9	Spanish (es) Conmoción y pavor		21.0331
10	Italian (it) Shock and awe		20.9193

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shock and awe		2 964 206
2	German (de) Shock and Awe		163 372
3	French (fr) Choc et effroi		70 342
4	Russian (ru) Шок и трепет (доктрина)		65 947
5	Italian (it) Shock and awe		52 712
6	Greek (el) Σοκ και Δέος		44 927
7	Portuguese (pt) Choque e pavor		38 104
8	Spanish (es) Conmoción y pavor		34 934
9	Hebrew (he) הלם ומורא		20 704
10	Korean (ko) 충격과 공포		15 823

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shock and awe		19 821
2	German (de) Shock and Awe		1 881
3	Russian (ru) Шок и трепет (доктрина)		996
4	Italian (it) Shock and awe		468
5	French (fr) Choc et effroi		393
6	Portuguese (pt) Choque e pavor		235
7	Spanish (es) Conmoción y pavor		232
8	Hebrew (he) הלם ומורא		199
9	Arabic (ar) الصدمة والترويع		163
10	Greek (el) Σοκ και Δέος		131

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shock and awe		276
2	French (fr) Choc et effroi		36
3	German (de) Shock and Awe		34
4	Hebrew (he) הלם ומורא		23
5	Italian (it) Shock and awe		18
6	Spanish (es) Conmoción y pavor		13
7	Greek (el) Σοκ και Δέος		8
8	Korean (ko) 충격과 공포		7
9	Norwegian (no) Sjokk og frykt		7
10	Russian (ru) Шок и трепет (доктрина)		7

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Σοκ και Δέος		2
2	Arabic (ar) الصدمة والترويع		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Şok və titrəyiş (doktrina)		0
4	German (de) Shock and Awe		0
5	English (en) Shock and awe		0
6	Spanish (es) Conmoción y pavor		0
7	French (fr) Choc et effroi		0
8	Hebrew (he) הלם ומורא		0
9	Indonesian (id) Shock and Awe		0
10	Italian (it) Shock and awe		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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