Short (finance)

Quality:

Short - practice of selling securities or other financial instruments that are not currently owned. Article “Short (finance)” in English Wikipedia has 55.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 73 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.9 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Short (finance)”, its content was written by 570 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1681 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 892 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2777 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1674 in September 2008
• Global: #653 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #258 in September 2008
• Global: #611 in October 2008

There are 35 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	German (de) Leerverkauf		66.4106
2	English (en) Short (finance)		55.6022
3	French (fr) Vente à découvert		55.4947
4	Hungarian (hu) Rövidre eladás		40.5823
5	Greek (el) Ανοιχτή πώληση		34.9932
6	Persian (fa) فروش استقراضی		33.7824
7	Swedish (sv) Blankning		29.4536
8	Dutch (nl) Short gaan		27.0369
9	Hebrew (he) מכירה בחסר		26.1895
10	Portuguese (pt) Venda a descoberto		25.6466

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Short (finance)		11 448 116
2	German (de) Leerverkauf		2 440 456
3	Japanese (ja) 空売り		1 747 958
4	Chinese (zh) 短倉		881 076
5	Italian (it) Vendita allo scoperto		793 337
6	Russian (ru) Продажа без покрытия		771 396
7	French (fr) Vente à découvert		740 901
8	Spanish (es) Posición corta		447 859
9	Dutch (nl) Short gaan		387 304
10	Swedish (sv) Blankning		289 718

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) Short (finance)		22 567
2	German (de) Leerverkauf		5 155
3	Japanese (ja) 空売り		1 948
4	Russian (ru) Продажа без покрытия		1 802
5	French (fr) Vente à découvert		1 580
6	Chinese (zh) 短倉		1 414
7	Italian (it) Vendita allo scoperto		906
8	Hebrew (he) מכירה בחסר		851
9	Korean (ko) 공매도		748
10	Spanish (es) Posición corta		586

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Short (finance)		570
2	German (de) Leerverkauf		188
3	Greek (el) Ανοιχτή πώληση		115
4	French (fr) Vente à découvert		82
5	Chinese (zh) 短倉		67
6	Dutch (nl) Short gaan		63
7	Italian (it) Vendita allo scoperto		57
8	Hebrew (he) מכירה בחסר		49
9	Russian (ru) Продажа без покрытия		49
10	Japanese (ja) 空売り		39

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	Czech (cs) Krátký prodej		1
2	Slovak (sk) Predaj nakrátko		1
3	Chinese (zh) 短倉		1
4	Arabic (ar) بيع مكشوف		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Къса продажба		0
6	Catalan (ca) Venda en descobert		0
7	Danish (da) Shortselling		0
8	German (de) Leerverkauf		0
9	Greek (el) Ανοιχτή πώληση		0
10	English (en) Short (finance)		0

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

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