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What Makes for a Merry Christmas?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2002
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 1,024)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
31 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
24 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
99 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
125 Mendeley
Title
What Makes for a Merry Christmas?
Published in
Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2002
DOI 10.1023/a:1021516410457
Authors

Tim Kasser, Kennon M. Sheldon

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
South Africa 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Unknown 118 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Student > Master 17 14%
Researcher 16 13%
Student > Postgraduate 7 6%
Other 26 21%
Unknown 13 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 48 38%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 13%
Social Sciences 14 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 7%
Environmental Science 7 6%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 16 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 313. 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 February 2024.
All research outputs
#108,869
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Happiness Studies
#17
of 1,024 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84
of 135,797 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Happiness Studies
#1
of 4 outputs
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