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What happens when software developers are (un)happy

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Systems & Software, June 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 2,085)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
51 news outlets
twitter
87 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
4 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
309 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What happens when software developers are (un)happy
Published in
Journal of Systems & Software, June 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2018.02.041
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 309 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 46 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 14%
Student > Bachelor 24 8%
Researcher 22 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 7%
Other 43 14%
Unknown 111 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 109 35%
Business, Management and Accounting 24 8%
Psychology 12 4%
Social Sciences 9 3%
Engineering 9 3%
Other 25 8%
Unknown 121 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 467. 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 December 2025.
All research outputs
#73,833
of 34,331,336 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Systems & Software
#1
of 2,085 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,350
of 374,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Systems & Software
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,331,336 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,085 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.