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Are Women Happier than Men? Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Happiness Studies, April 2014
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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 (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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Title
Are Women Happier than Men? Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Published in
Journal of Happiness Studies, April 2014
DOI 10.1007/s10902-014-9521-8
Authors

Jacqueline S. Zweig

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 113 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 17 14%
Student > Master 15 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 10%
Researcher 11 9%
Other 21 18%
Unknown 29 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 20%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 21 18%
Social Sciences 18 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 3%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 31 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 May 2022.
All research outputs
#2,958,372
of 24,657,405 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Happiness Studies
#327
of 995 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,942
of 230,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Happiness Studies
#4
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,657,405 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 995 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.