Argumentum ad metum

Appeal to fear - fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice toward a competitor. Article “Argumentum ad metum” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 14.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Argumentum ad metum”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 342 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1058 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #12162 in June 2024
• Global: #10139 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #62304 in December 2017
• Global: #120245 in January 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	Catalan (ca) Apel·lació a la por		31.5522
2	Chinese (zh) 訴諸恐懼		25.5367
3	German (de) Furchtappell		25.1687
4	English (en) Appeal to fear		23.6759
5	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į baimę		22.2898
6	Belarusian (be) Зварот да страху		18.1727
7	Arabic (ar) تخويف (مغالطة)		17.3737
8	Japanese (ja) 恐怖に訴える論証		14.3207
9	Norwegian (no) Argumentum ad metum		14.1851
10	Turkish (tr) Korkuya başvurma		10.7223

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Argumentum ad metum" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Appeal to fear		554 725
2	German (de) Furchtappell		77 373
3	Chinese (zh) 訴諸恐懼		73 417
4	Spanish (es) Apelar al miedo		53 566
5	Japanese (ja) 恐怖に訴える論証		51 653
6	French (fr) Appel à la peur		37 311
7	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad metum		32 693
8	Finnish (fi) Pelottelu		19 633
9	Persian (fa) توسل به ترس		14 859
10	Swedish (sv) Skrämselpropaganda		10 974

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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 "Argumentum ad metum" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Appeal to fear		1 687
2	Chinese (zh) 訴諸恐懼		291
3	Japanese (ja) 恐怖に訴える論証		164
4	French (fr) Appel à la peur		108
5	German (de) Furchtappell		96
6	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į baimę		79
7	Spanish (es) Apelar al miedo		71
8	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad metum		64
9	Persian (fa) توسل به ترس		33
10	Finnish (fi) Pelottelu		32

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Appeal to fear		119
2	French (fr) Appel à la peur		48
3	German (de) Furchtappell		44
4	Chinese (zh) 訴諸恐懼		25
5	Finnish (fi) Pelottelu		15
6	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad metum		15
7	Persian (fa) توسل به ترس		10
8	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į baimę		10
9	Swedish (sv) Skrämselpropaganda		10
10	Ukrainian (uk) Звернення до страху		9

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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 "Argumentum ad metum" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Appeal to fear		2
2	Romanian (ro) Apelul la frică		1
3	Arabic (ar) تخويف (مغالطة)		0
4	Belarusian (be) Зварот да страху		0
5	Catalan (ca) Apel·lació a la por		0
6	German (de) Furchtappell		0
7	Spanish (es) Apelar al miedo		0
8	Persian (fa) توسل به ترس		0
9	Finnish (fi) Pelottelu		0
10	French (fr) Appel à la peur		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 "Argumentum ad metum" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Appeal to fear		257
2	Ukrainian (uk) Звернення до страху		166
3	Arabic (ar) تخويف (مغالطة)		152
4	Portuguese (pt) Argumentum ad metum		100
5	French (fr) Appel à la peur		78
6	Japanese (ja) 恐怖に訴える論証		70
7	Persian (fa) توسل به ترس		69
8	Chinese (zh) 訴諸恐懼		33
9	Norwegian (no) Argumentum ad metum		32
10	Turkish (tr) Korkuya başvurma		31

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تخويف (مغالطة)
be	Belarusian Зварот да страху
ca	Catalan Apel·lació a la por
de	German Furchtappell
en	English Appeal to fear
es	Spanish Apelar al miedo
fa	Persian توسل به ترس
fi	Finnish Pelottelu
fr	French Appel à la peur
ja	Japanese 恐怖に訴える論証
lt	Lithuanian Apeliavimas į baimę
no	Norwegian Argumentum ad metum
pt	Portuguese Argumentum ad metum
ro	Romanian Apelul la frică
sv	Swedish Skrämselpropaganda
tr	Turkish Korkuya başvurma
uk	Ukrainian Звернення до страху
zh	Chinese 訴諸恐懼

Best Rank

Norwegian: #62304 12.2017

Global: #120245 01.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #12162 06.2024

Global: #10139 05.2003

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