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The utility of happiness

Overview of attention for article published in Social Indicators Research, August 1988
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

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3 policy sources
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2 X users

Citations

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239 Dimensions

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260 Mendeley
Title
The utility of happiness
Published in
Social Indicators Research, August 1988
DOI 10.1007/bf00302332
Authors

Ruut Veenhoven

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 251 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 16%
Student > Bachelor 33 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 12%
Researcher 18 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 6%
Other 41 16%
Unknown 81 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 67 26%
Social Sciences 37 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 25 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 7%
Philosophy 7 3%
Other 23 9%
Unknown 84 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 September 2020.
All research outputs
#2,719,261
of 22,919,505 outputs
Outputs from Social Indicators Research
#253
of 1,731 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#583
of 13,149 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Indicators Research
#1
of 3 outputs
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