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Can Well-Being be Measured Using Facebook Status Updates? Validation of Facebook’s Gross National Happiness Index

Overview of attention for article published in Social Indicators Research, February 2012
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

Mentioned by

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1 news outlet
twitter
8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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56 Dimensions

Readers on

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196 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
Title
Can Well-Being be Measured Using Facebook Status Updates? Validation of Facebook’s Gross National Happiness Index
Published in
Social Indicators Research, February 2012
DOI 10.1007/s11205-012-9996-9
Authors

N. Wang, M. Kosinski, D. J. Stillwell, J. Rust

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 3%
United States 2 1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 184 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 19%
Researcher 26 13%
Student > Master 26 13%
Student > Bachelor 21 11%
Student > Postgraduate 12 6%
Other 44 22%
Unknown 30 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 51 26%
Social Sciences 27 14%
Computer Science 21 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 7%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 40 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 18 January 2016.
All research outputs
#2,012,998
of 23,573,357 outputs
Outputs from Social Indicators Research
#182
of 1,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,883
of 251,217 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Indicators Research
#3
of 18 outputs
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