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Are smarter people happier? Meta-analyses of the relationships between general mental ability and job and life satisfaction

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Vocational Behavior, April 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
46 X users
reddit
17 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

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mendeley
140 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Are smarter people happier? Meta-analyses of the relationships between general mental ability and job and life satisfaction
Published in
Journal of Vocational Behavior, April 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.jvb.2017.01.003
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 137 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 14%
Student > Master 15 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Researcher 8 6%
Other 27 19%
Unknown 51 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 34 24%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 16%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 52 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. 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 09 September 2026.
All research outputs
#820,756
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Vocational Behavior
#70
of 1,292 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,595
of 353,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Vocational Behavior
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,292 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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