FUD

Fear, uncertainty and doubt - tactic used to influence opinion by disseminating negative, dubious, or false information. Article “FUD” in Swedish Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “FUD”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 874 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #1902 in July 2003
• Global: #147 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #14760 in July 2008
• Global: #38393 in September 2008

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, dan keraguan (FUD)		72.8076
2	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		69.6513
3	Greek (el) Φόβος, αβεβαιότητα και αμφιβολία		36.5201
4	Arabic (ar) الخوف وعدم اليقين والشك		33.2177
5	Romanian (ro) FUD		30.6436
6	Catalan (ca) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		26.1912
7	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		24.9534
8	Polish (pl) FUD		20.9298
9	Swedish (sv) FUD		20.4869
10	Hebrew (he) פחד, אי-ודאות וספק		19.333

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		2 837 507
2	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		323 785
3	Japanese (ja) FUD		192 366
4	Spanish (es) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		176 759
5	French (fr) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		139 227
6	Polish (pl) FUD		113 473
7	Russian (ru) FUD		106 183
8	Chinese (zh) FUD		100 012
9	Italian (it) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		69 022
10	Portuguese (pt) Medo, incerteza e dúvida		55 237

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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 "FUD" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		8 309
2	French (fr) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		488
3	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		376
4	Japanese (ja) FUD		324
5	Chinese (zh) FUD		268
6	Russian (ru) FUD		242
7	Spanish (es) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		192
8	Polish (pl) FUD		118
9	Greek (el) Φόβος, αβεβαιότητα και αμφιβολία		116
10	Italian (it) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		97

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		400
2	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		101
3	French (fr) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		84
4	Italian (it) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		36
5	Dutch (nl) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		36
6	Hebrew (he) פחד, אי-ודאות וספק		35
7	Danish (da) FUD		30
8	Spanish (es) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		30
9	Polish (pl) FUD		27
10	Chinese (zh) FUD		25

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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 "FUD" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Φόβος, αβεβαιότητα και αμφιβολία		1
2	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		1
3	Indonesian (id) Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, dan keraguan (FUD)		1
4	Chinese (zh) FUD		1
5	Arabic (ar) الخوف وعدم اليقين والشك		0
6	Catalan (ca) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		0
7	Czech (cs) Strach, nejistota, pochyby		0
8	Danish (da) FUD		0
9	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		0
10	Spanish (es) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		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 "FUD" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fear, uncertainty, and doubt		402
2	Ukrainian (uk) FUD		118
3	Chinese (zh) FUD		115
4	Japanese (ja) FUD		45
5	French (fr) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		30
6	Indonesian (id) Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, dan keraguan (FUD)		29
7	German (de) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt		23
8	Spanish (es) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		17
9	Italian (it) Fear, uncertainty and doubt		10
10	Portuguese (pt) Medo, incerteza e dúvida		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الخوف وعدم اليقين والشك
ca	Catalan Fear, uncertainty and doubt
cs	Czech Strach, nejistota, pochyby
da	Danish FUD
de	German Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
el	Greek Φόβος, αβεβαιότητα και αμφιβολία
en	English Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
es	Spanish Fear, uncertainty and doubt
eu	Basque Fear, uncertainty and doubt
fi	Finnish FUD
fr	French Fear, uncertainty and doubt
gl	Galician FUD
he	Hebrew פחד, אי-ודאות וספק
hu	Hungarian Félelem, bizonytalanság és kétely
id	Indonesian Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, dan keraguan (FUD)
it	Italian Fear, uncertainty and doubt
ja	Japanese FUD
ko	Korean FUD
nl	Dutch Fear, uncertainty and doubt
no	Norwegian Frykt, usikkerhet og tvil
pl	Polish FUD
pt	Portuguese Medo, incerteza e dúvida
ro	Romanian FUD
ru	Russian FUD
sv	Swedish FUD
uk	Ukrainian FUD
zh	Chinese FUD

Best Rank

Swedish: #14760 07.2008

Global: #38393 09.2008

Best Rank

Swedish: #1902 07.2003

Global: #147 03.2002

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