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What’s Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Indicators Research, February 2017
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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3 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
What’s Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator?
Published in
Social Indicators Research, February 2017
DOI 10.1007/s11205-017-1549-9
Authors

John F. Helliwell

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 24%
Researcher 4 14%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Student > Postgraduate 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 21%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 14%
Environmental Science 3 10%
Psychology 3 10%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 8 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 20 March 2023.
All research outputs
#6,342,860
of 23,572,442 outputs
Outputs from Social Indicators Research
#583
of 1,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#101,254
of 313,091 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Indicators Research
#10
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,572,442 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,769 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% 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 313,091 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 31 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.