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How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Happiness Studies, November 2008
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source

Citations

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Readers on

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132 Mendeley
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1 Connotea
Title
How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data?
Published in
Journal of Happiness Studies, November 2008
DOI 10.1007/s10902-008-9121-6
Authors

Christian Bjørnskov

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 132 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Switzerland 2 2%
Hungary 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 124 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 23%
Student > Master 15 11%
Researcher 13 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 32 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 20 15%
Social Sciences 19 14%
Psychology 17 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 5%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 41 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 24 January 2024.
All research outputs
#1,388,644
of 25,727,480 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Happiness Studies
#187
of 1,034 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,441
of 106,732 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Happiness Studies
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,727,480 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,034 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 106,732 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
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